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• All My Rage

  Tahir, Sabaa,

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  National Book Award Winner, Michael L. Printz Award Winner, Walter Dean Myers Award honor title, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Fiction and Poetry Winner; A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ogress and the Orphans

  Barnhill, Kelly Regan,

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  National Book Award Finalist; When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

  Reyes, Sonora,

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  National Book Award Finalist, Morris Award Finalist, Walter Dean Myers Award honor title, Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Book, Rainbow Book List Title; Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Victory. Stand!

  Raising My Fist for Justice

  Smith, Tommie, 1944-

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  National Book Award Finalist, YALSA Nonfiction Award, Coretta Scott King Honor Book (Author and Illustrator); A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maizy Chen's Last Chance

  Yee, Lisa,

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  National Book Award Finalist, Newbery Honor Book, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Children's Literature Winner; Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

  Blum, Isaac,

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  National Book Award Longlist, Morris Award Finalist; Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Thousand Steps Into Night

  Chee, Traci,

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  National Book Award Longlist; When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swim Team

  Christmas, Johnnie,

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  National Book Award Longlist; Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Self-made Boys

  a Great Gatsby Remix

  McLemore, Anna-Marie,

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  National Book Award Longlist; New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution

  Winston, Sherri,

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  National Book Award Longlist; Twelve-year-old Lotus Blossom, normally a peace-loving free spirit, must summon the courage to fight against a racist dress code and stand up for herself.

• The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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  Morris Award Finalist, Stonewall Book Award Honor Book, Rainbow Book List Top 10 Titles for Teen Readers; Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wake the Bones

  Kilcoyne, Elizabeth,

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  Morris Award Finalist; After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell Followed With Us

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  Morris Award Finalist, Rainbow Book List Title; Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Angels Left the Old Country

  Lamb, Sacha,

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  Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, Stonewall Book Award Winner, Sydney Taylor Book Award Young Adult Winner; Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scout's Honor

  Anderson, Lily, 1988-

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  Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book; Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monsters and the weight of her legacy in Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson, a YA paranormal perfect for fans of Stranger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iveliz Explains It All

  Arango, Andrea Beatriz,

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  Newbery Honor Book; Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ain't Burned All the Bright

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Caldecott Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Picture Book Winner; A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now.

• Man Made Monsters

  Rogers, Andrea L.

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  Walter Dean Myers Award Winner; Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.

• We Deserve Monuments

  Hammonds, Jas,

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  Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award; When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.

• Tumble

  Pérez, Celia C., 1972-

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  Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor Book; Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation