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Planning Perfect
Haley Neil - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover
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In this charming, heartfelt YA romcom about being on the asexual spectrum, a girl tries to craft the perfect wedding for her mother but discovers that sometimes the best parts of life can't be planned.Felicity Becker loves watching an event come together. Whether it's prom, graduation,... |
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The Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them... |
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Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl
Sara Waxelbaum - Inkyard Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The most delightfully snarky romance I've read this year." - New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston This charming YA rom-com follows Margo, who suddenly realizes that she's gay but has no clue how to express her identity, so she enlists out-and-proud Abbie... |
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The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
ISAAC BLUM - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and hatred.Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron,... |
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When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sacha Lamb - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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In publishing-speak, here's what we at the LQ office sometimes describe as the Queer lovechild of Sholem Aleichem and Philip Roth: Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name... |
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Going Bicoastal
Dahlia Adler - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming) .In Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal, there's more than one path to happily ever... |
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How to Excavate a Heart
Jake Maia Arlow - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Stonewall Honor author Jake Maia Arlow delivers a sapphic Jewish twist on the classic Christmas rom-com in a read perfect for fans of Kelly Quindlen and Casey McQuiston.It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom's Subaru.Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part... |
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Eight Nights of Flirting
Hannah Reynolds - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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A sixteen-year-old girl is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend this Hanukkah, but love might not go according to plan, in this charming winter romcom from the author of The Summer of Lost Letters.Shira Barbanel has a plan: this Hanukkah, she's going to get a boyfriend. And she has the perfect... |
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The Last Words We Said
Leah Scheier - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Nine months ago, Danny disappeared. His closest friends, Ellie, Rae, and Deenie, are all dealing with the loss differently. Rae's pouring herself into rage-baking. Deenie's deepening her commitment to Orthodox Judaism. And Ellie - who was Danny's girlfriend and closest friend... |
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Gravity
Sarah Deming - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover
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A. S. King meets Chris Crutcher in boxing journalist Sarah Deming's YA novel about a young female boxer who learns to fight for what she wants. When Gravity Delgado walks into Cops 'n Kids, a no-frills Brooklyn boxing gym, and starts working with the legendary Coach Thomas, she joins a true... |
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Eight Dates and Nights
Betsy Aldredge - Underlined
Format: Paperback
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Two teens with two very different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah learn to work together to save the last Jewish remnant in small town Texas in this cozy holiday romance!. New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to exactly two things, horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she's surrounded by both... |
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The City Beautiful
Aden Polydoros - Inkyard Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams." - Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQ Reads and editor of That Way Madness LiesDeath lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows... |
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You Asked for Perfect
Laura Silverman - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback
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"Wise romantic and painfully relatable." -- Becky Albertalli award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaFor fans of Adam Silvera and Nina LaCour comes a timely novel about a teen's struggle when academic success and happiness pull him in opposite directions.Senior... |
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Brik
Adam Glass - Oni Press
Format: Paperback
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When Drew, a 12-year-old Jewish boy from Yonkers, loses his beloved grandfather to anti-semitic gang violence, he turns to tradition, anger, and Kabbalah to serve vengeance. Conjuring a supernatural defender to protect his city brings Drew unimaginable power -- power he may not be able... |
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Once More with Chutzpah
Haley Neil - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Book
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When high school senior Tally and her twin brother Max head off on an exchange trip to Israel over their winter break, Tally thinks it will be a good distraction for Max; he might be trying to hide it, but she knows he's still struggling in the wake of a car crash that injured him and killed... |
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Today Tonight Tomorrow
Rachel Lynn Solomon - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours.Today, she hates him. It's the last day of senior year.... |
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Color Me In
Natasha Díaz
Format: Paperback
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Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time. Nevaeh... |
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Alma Presses Play
Tina Cane - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover
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Alma's life is a series of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and she's halfway through becoming a woman. But as long as she can listen to her Walkman, hang out with her friends on the stoops of the Village,... |
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Dancing at the Pity Party
Tyler Feder - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Part poignant cancer memoir and part humorous reflection on a motherless life, this debut graphic novel is extraordinarily comforting and engaging.From before her mother's first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer to the funeral, sitting shiva, and afterward, when... |
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Little & Lion
Brandy Colbert - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning novel on love, loss, identity, and redemption, from Publishers Weekly Flying Start author Brandy Colbert |
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Its a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
Katherine Locke - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Includes a special introduction by Mayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up!Get ready to fall in love, experience heartbreak, and discover the true meaning of identity in this poignant collection of short stories about Jewish teens, including... |
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Yes No Maybe So
Becky Albertalli - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A book about the power of love and resistance from New York Times bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed.YESJamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate - as long as he's behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let's... |
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All Kinds of Other
James Sie - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this tender, nuanced coming-of-age love story, two boys - one who is cis, and one who is trans - have been guarding their hearts, until their feelings for each other give them a reason to stand up to their fears. Two boys are starting over at a new high school. Jules is still figuring... |
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Camp
L. C. Rosen - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed Jack of Hearts (and other parts) comes a sweet and sharp screwball comedy that critiques the culture of toxic masculinity within the queer community.Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's... |
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Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero
E. Lockhart - DC Comics; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
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Sixteen-year-old Willow Zimmerman has something to say. When she's not on the streets protesting City Hall's neglect of her run-down Gotham neighborhood, she's working nights at the local dog shelter. But despite how much she does for the world around her, she's struggling... |
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In the Neighborhood of True
Susan Kaplan Carlton - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful story of love, identity, and the price of fitting in or speaking out."The story may be set in the past, but it couldn't be a more timely reminder that true courage comes not from fitting in, but from purposefully standing out . . . and that to find out who you really are,... |
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Uprising
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Paperback
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The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought attention to the labor movement in America, is part of the curriculum... |
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Echo After Echo
AMY ROSE CAPETTA - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared - for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; or for death in the theater.Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role... |
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They'll Never Catch Us
Jessica Goodman - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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Stella and Ellie Steckler are only a year apart, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded, driven, and she keeps to herself. Cross-country running is her life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister... |
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The Assignment
Liza Wiemer - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of the classic The Wave and inspired by a real-life incident, this riveting novel explores discrimination and antisemitism and reveals their dangerous impact.SENIOR YEAR. When an assignment given by a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution,... |
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