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Why We Fly

Kimberly Jones - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest.With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best friends Eleanor and Chanel have a lot on their minds. Eleanor is still in physical...
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Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia,...
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Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms

Crystal Frasier - Oni Press
Format: Paperback

Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser - a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades...
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear

E K Johnston - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author E.K. Johnston comes a brave and unforgettable story that will inspire readers to rethink how we treat survivors. Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, this doesn't mean what you think it means. At PHHS,...
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Break the Fall

Jennifer Iacopelli - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

"This book makes you understand exactly what it is like to compete as a woman at the highest level in sport, and it is exhilarating and satisfying indeed." --Holly Sorensen, Television Creator/Showrunner, Make it or Break It, Step Up: High WaterAudrey Lee is going...
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Dreamland

Sarah Dessen - Speak; 9th Edition edition
Format: Book

Love can be a very dangerous thing.   After her sister left, Caitlin felt lost.   Then she met Rogerson.   When she’s with him, nothing seems real. But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him?   “Another pitch-perfect...
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Redwood and Ponytail

K. A. Holt - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Kate and Tam meet, and both of their worlds tip sideways. At first, Tam figures Kate is your stereotypical cheerleader; Kate sees Tam as another tall jock. And the more they keep running into each other, the more they surprise each other. Beneath Kate's sleek ponytail and perfect faade,...
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I'll Be the One

Lyla Lee - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating confidence and body positivity - perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Julie Murphy. Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors....
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She Drives Me Crazy

Kelly Quindlen
Format: Hardcover

After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, who is as beautiful as she is mean. When the damage sends Irene's car to the shop for weeks'...
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Dragon Hoops

Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Hardcover

In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches.Gene understands stories -- comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero...
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We Are the Wildcats

Siobhan Vivian - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A toxic coach finds himself outplayed by the high school girls on his team in this deeply suspenseful novel, which unspools over twenty-four hours through six diverse perspectives.Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight's...
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Admission

Julie Buxbaum - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes an of-the-moment novel that peeks inside the private lives of the hypercompetitive and the hyperprivileged and takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country.It's good to be Chloe Wynn...
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Tiny Pretty Things

Sona Charaipotra - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Now a Netflix TV show! Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the acclaimed...
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A Map to the Sun

Leong, Sloane - FIRST SECOND
Format: Book

One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna moves to back to Oahu, Ren’s messages to her friend go unanswered.

Years go by. Then Luna returns, hoping to rekindle their friendship. Ren is hesitant. She's...

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Check, Please!: # Hockey

NGOZI UKAZU - First Second
Format: Paperback

Helloooo, Internet Land. Bitty here! Y'all . . . I might not be ready for this. I may be aformer junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talentedamateur ptissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey teamis a whole new challenge. It's...
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Rites of Passage

Joy N. Hensley - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

In this fast-paced, high-stakes debut novel, sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend a revered military academy means living with a target on her back. As Sam struggles to prove herself, she learns that a decades-old secret society is alive...
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The Cheerleaders

Kara Thomas - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars, The Cheerleaders is a twisty page-turner that will have you doubting every character you meet--and everything you think you know." --Riley Sager, bestselling author of Final GirlsFrom the author...
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Six Angry Girls

Kisner, Adrienne - FEIWEL & FRIENDS


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With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life...
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I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver - Push
Format: Hardcover

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection,...
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