In 1940s Germany, Sophie is key to the resistance against the Nazis. In 1980s West Germany, Jenny wants to tear down the Berlin Wall. In 2020 NYC, Miles and Chloe are in COVID lockdown. When these timelines connect it will change everything!
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Young Adult Buddy Reads
Read along with the teen in your life! Some books are just a blast to read and chat about, while others cover heavier topics that will give you a chance to organically chat with them about!
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- A contemporary YA novel about a biracial teen boy who contends with a life-altering year at an alternative school, showing a raw glimpse into the systemic inequality experienced by young people in racialized communities.
- College beckons to Ada, where she can get out from under her strict father's eye and finally follow her dream to explore her love of dance, express herself, and perhaps understand past trauma.
- Bree isn't the same since her mother died three months ago. When a magical being attacks her, a magic buried deep within Bree is unlocked. If she wants to learn the truth behind her mother's death, she must infiltrate the secret magical society!
- Claire's wealthy parents send her to the U.S. to acquire a coveted foreign education. She boards with scholarship student Dani, and the unlikely pair are drawn together by shared experiences.
- In a series of moments spanning two years, 17-year-old Neon navigates the progression of his relationship with Aria, culminating in a case of the jitters as the two intend to take the next big step in their relationship.
- After discovering the body of 14-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, 17-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her high school.
- This raw and honest historical novel in verse is about a Chinese teen who emigrates to the U.S. with his family and endures mistreatment at the Angel Island Immigration Station while trying to navigate his course in a new world.
- In this world, happiness is contagious, but the risk of catching it may be just as dangerous as the cure.
- Mickey is her school's star catcher — until she's suddenly upside-down in her car in a field. After several surgeries, she is given painkillers to help her recovery. Now, Mickey is dealing with opioid addiction and struggling to get back in the game.
- After almost seven years in prison, former art student and poet Amal Shahid wins his release when new evidence comes to light.
- In this perfect world, scythes are the only ones who can end a life to restore balance in the world. Citra and Rowan are apprenticing to become scythes, but they are about to find out that restoring balance in a perfect world isn't always easy.
- Pippa struggles to figure out what she wants to do for her senior project. When she hears about the cold case of a girl named Andie who went missing, she decides to spend her senior year trying to solve this hometown mystery.
- Kiku travels back in time to a Japanese American internment camp in the 1940s. Kiku begins to experience the history that she never learned in school, like the traumas, injustices, acts of resistance and hope alive in the camps.
- New girl Anna decides to do an investigative podcast on how fellow classmate Rachel Riley went from being the most popular girl in school to the most hated. Clue after clue, the mystery widens, painting an even more complex story!
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