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Check, Please!: # Hockey

NGOZI UKAZU - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur ptissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's...
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Fence Vol. 1

C S PACAT - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fencing, and earn his place alongside fencing legends like the dad he never knew, but things get more complicated when he's up against his golden-boy half-brother, as well as sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama.Nicholas,...
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You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan...
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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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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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Bloom

Kevin Panetta - First Second
Format: Paperback

Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band -- if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens....
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Kiss & Tell

Adib Khorram - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

"Kiss & Tell is a total rush! Perfectly sweet and swoon worthy. I loved every page!" -Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'A smart, sexy YA novel about a boy band star, his first breakup, his first rebound, and what it means to be queer in the public...
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Running with Lions

Julian Winters - Duet, an imprint of Interlude Press
Format: Paperback

Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie, Sebastian Hughes, should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing and he's got a coach who doesn't ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged childhood best friend Emir Shah shows up to summer training...
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Only Mostly Devastated: A Novel

Sophie Gonzales - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets Clueless in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease"A delightful, heartwarming, heartrending story about family, love, friendship, and living your most authentic life. I couldn't put it down." -- New York Times bestselling author Sandhya...
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Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun: A Novel

Jonny Garza Villa
Format: Hardcover

Julin Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life.Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key...
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The Avant-Guards Vol. 1

Carly Usdin - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles to find her feet, but winds up exactly where she belongs...in the school's (terrible) basketball team.As a transfer student to the Georgia O'Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle...
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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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Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately...
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Mariko Tamaki - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...
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On a Sunbeam

Tillie Walden - First Second
Format: Paperback

On a Sunbeam is an epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden.Two timelines. Second chances. One love. A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken...
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The Heartbreak Bakery

A. R. Capetta - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

"What's done is done."Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it's getting undone.Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer...
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Crumbs

DANIE STIRLING - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Falling in love just got sweeter in this charming, romantic YA graphic novel from WEBTOON, the #1 digital comic platform. Ray, a young seer struggling with her powers, discovers first love and friendship in her town's magic bakery.In a very special town, there's an even more unusual...
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What If It's Us

BECKY ALBERTALLI - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller! Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in this smart, funny, heartfelt collaboration about two very different boys who can't decide if the universe is pushing them together - or pulling...
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Perfect on Paper: A Novel

Sophie Gonzales - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

"Perfectly wonderful." -- Becky Albertalli, New York Times-bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.Darcy Phillips:* Can give you the solution to any of your relationship woes -- for a fee.* Uses her power for good....
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The Sky Blues

Robbie Couch
Format: Hardcover

Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high schools annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to promand...
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