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You Don't Have a Shot

Racquel Marie - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Drives Me Crazy.. Valentina "Vale" Castillo-Green's life revolves around soccer. Her friends, her future, and her father's intense expectations are all wrapped up in the beautiful...
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Don't Let the Forest In

CG Drews - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

As alluring as it is unsettling, award-winning author CG Drews' debut YA psychological horror will leave readers breathless and hesitant to venture deeper into the woods.Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea...
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Planning Perfect

Haley Neil - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

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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A-Okay

Jarad Greene - HarperAlley
Format: Hardcover

A-Okay by Jarad Greene is a vulnerable and heartfelt semi-autobiographical middle grade graphic novel about acne, identity, and finding your place. When Jay starts eighth grade with a few pimples he doesn't think much of it at first ... except to wonder if the embarrassing acne will...
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Love Letters for Joy

Melissa See - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

A new LGBTQIA romance story by the author of You, Me, and Our Heartstrings.Less than a year away from graduation, seventeen-year-old Joy is too busy overachieving to be worried about relationships. She's determined to be Caldwell Prep's first disabled valedictorian. And she only...
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Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual college students, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd...
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Aces Wild: A Heist

Amanda DeWitt - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

What happens in Vegas when an all-asexual online friend group attempts to break into a high-stakes gambling club? Shenanigans ensue.Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas...
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The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester

Maya MacGregor - ‎Astra Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Look no further for your next favorite read, because The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester has it all: a gripping murder mystery that will keep you turning pages, ghosts, romance, and a treasure trove of queer characters with depth and heart. Here's something rare - a suspenseful...
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Funeral Girl

Emma K Ohland - Carolrhoda Lab ®
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run -- especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts. With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes...
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The Reckless Kind

Carly Heath - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

It's 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn't want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic future, given her single-sided deafness, unconventional appearance, and even stranger...
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Loveless

Alice Oseman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don't involve sex or romance.From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering...
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Forward March

Skye Quinlan
Format: Hardcover

What's worse? Someone using your face for catfishing or realizing you actually do have a crush on the catfished girl?Harper "Band Geek" McKinley just wants to make it through her senior year of marching band -- and her Republican father's presidential campaign. That was a tall...
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How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Rebecca Burgess
Format: Paperback

Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality.
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Another Castle: Grimoire

Andrew Wheeler - Oni Press
Format: Paperback

Princess Misty of Beldora longs for a more exciting life, but gets more than she bargained for when she is captured by Lord Badlug, the ruler of the neighboring kingdom of Grimoire. He intends to marry her and conquer Beldora, leading the land into ruin and chaos. Together with the long-suffering...
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Elatsoe

Darcie Little Badger - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces...
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Let's Talk About Love

CLAIRE KANN - Swoon Reads
Format: Hardcover

Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite...
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Tash Hearts Tolstoy

Katie Ormsbee - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

After a shout-out from one of the Internet's superstar vloggers, Natasha "Tash" Zelenka suddenly finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families, thrust in the limelight: She's gone viral.Her show is a modern adaption of Anna Karenina--written...
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Ace of Hearts

Myriad Augustine - Lorimer
Format: Paperback

Everyone around Alvin seems to be obsessed with one thing - sex. Alvin finds it uncomfortable to think and talk about it and he knows he isn't ready and may never be. His friends, however, think that all Alvin needs is to hook up with the right guy, so they identify three of the most...
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Not Your Backup

C. B. Lee - Interlude Press
Format: Paperback

Emma Robledo has a few more responsibilities that the usual high school senior, but then again, she and her friends have left school to lead a fractured Resistance movement against a corrupt Heroes League of Heroes. Emma is the only member of a supercharged team without powers, she isnt...
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

MACKENZI LEE - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor - even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans...
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That's Not What Happened

Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith.But it's not true.I know because I was with her when she died....
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Before I Let Go

MARIEKE NIJKAMP - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Is Where It Ends!Days before Corey is to return home to the snow and ice of Lost Creek, Alaska, to visit her best friend, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated -- and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town's...
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Six Angry Girls

Kisner, Adrienne - FEIWEL & FRIENDS


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