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Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

Patricia Park - Listening Library
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of Re Jane makes her young adult debut in a funny, poignant, and powerful novel about a multicultural teen struggling to fit into her whitewashed school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, and even her own home as her family reels from the loss of her father."...A...
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Cursed

Karol Ruth Silverstein - Charlesbridge Teen
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel for fans of The Fault in Our Stars that thoughtfully and humorously depicts teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with a recent chronic illness diagnosis.As if her parents' divorce and sister's departure for college weren't bad enough, fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom...
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She Gets the Girl

Rachael Lippincott - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

She's All That meets What If It's Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole...
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How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying)

Cristina Fernandez
Format: Book

Falling for a superhero is dangerous. You have to trust that they’ll catch you.

Astrid isn’t a superhero, not like the ones she sees on the news, but she has something she thinks of as a small superpower: she has a perfect sense of time. And she’s not going...

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Huda F Are You?

Huda Fahmy - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define...
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Heartbreak Boys

Simon James Green - SCHOLASTIC UK
Format: Hardcover

When their ex-boyfriends get together and start Instagramming a disgustingly perfect summer of love, Jack and Nate decide to concoct a mutual Insta-worthy summer adventure of their own to prove they're just fine and everything's great.

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Gideon Green in Black and White

Katie Henry
Format: Hardcover

Truly Devious meets Turtles All the Way Down in critically acclaimed author Katie Henry's YA contemporary comedic mystery, a hilarious send-up of the hardboiled detective genre that spotlights family, friendship, and love. Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective...
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When You Get the Chance: A Novel

Emma Lord - Wednesday Books
Format: Book

Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price's dream of becoming a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super introverted dad, who raised Millie alone since she was a baby. Not her drama club rival, Oliver, who is the very definition of Simmering Romantic Tension. And not her "Millie...

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Happily Ever Afters

Elise Bryant
Format: Hardcover

Jane the Virgin meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this charming debut romantic comedy filled with Black Girl Magic. Perfect for fans of Mary H. K. Choi and Nicola Yoon, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Sixteen-year-old Tessa...
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Once Upon a Quinceaera

Monica Gomez-Hira
Format: Hardcover

"Eighteen-year-old Carmen takes on a summer internship that has her reuniting with estranged family for an over-the-top quinceanera, reluctantly reconnecting to a long-lost ex-boyfriend, and finding happiness in the chaos"--
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Be Dazzled

Ryan La Sala
Format: Hardcover

Project Runway goes to Comic Con in an epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be your most authentic self.Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making -- for creation. He's always chosen...
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The Marvelous Mirza Girls

Sheba Karim - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Gilmore Girls meets vibrant New Delhi in this thoughtful and hilarious new novel about a teen facing family expectations, relationship complications, and hidden secrets in a new country - sprinkled with Sheba Karim's signature wit and steamy romance, and perfect for readers who loved...
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A Pho Love Story

Loan Le
Format: Hardcover

If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he'd say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents' pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents' fifth favorite employee. Not ideal....
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

Philippe, Ben

A hilarious YA contemporary realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clichs, and awkward humiliations of the American high school experience - including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, When
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Who Put This Song On?

Morgan Parker - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest." - Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in Pieces,...
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Made in Korea

Sarah Suk - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

There's nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school's most successful student-run enterprise. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city,...
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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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Does My Head Look Big In This?

Randa Abdel-fattah - Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

When sixteen-year-old Amal decides to wear the hijab full-time, her entire world changes, all because of a piece of cloth...Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full-time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street....
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The Disasters

M. K. England - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it's not exactly a surprise when he's kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours....
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American Panda

Gloria Chao - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade...
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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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Not My Problem

Ciara Smyth - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this queer coming-of-age story from the author of The Falling in Love Montage is wry, multilayered, and unflinchingly honest. Aideen has plenty of problems she can't solve. But when she stumbles upon overachiever Meabh Kowalska...
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Amelia Westlake Was Never Here

Erin Gough - Poppy
Format: Hardcover

A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker...
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Beauty Queens

Libba Bray - Scholastic Press
Format: Book

From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert island classic.

Survival. Of the fittest.

The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate...
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

MACKENZI LEE

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s in this hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel. A young bisexual British lord who embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush stars. An 18th-century romantic
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Camp

L. C. Rosen - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

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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We Are the Perfect Girl

Ariel Kaplan - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: May 21

This witty, warm-hearted retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac is a love letter to female friendship. Perfect for Stephanie Perkins fans, and anyone whos ever thought of trying on a new identity to impress a guy.Aphra Brown is bold and outgoing. Her best friend, Bethany, is achingly beautiful....
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War and Speech

Don Zolidis - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Not everyone can be a winner...Sydney Williams knows this better than anyone. After her white-collar- criminal dad is sent to prison, Sydney fails almost all of her classes and moves into a dingy apartment with her mom, who can barely support them with her minimum-wage job at the mall....
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Jordan Sonnenblick - Scholastic Inc.; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

A brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh, and break their hearts at the same time. Now with a special note from the author!Steven has a totally normal life well, almost.He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Band whose members call him the Peasant, has a crush on the hottest...
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Giant Days Vol. 1

John Allison - Boom! Studios
Format: Print book

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful,...
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