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• Zara Hossain Is Here

  Khan, Sabina, 1968-

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  Ever since her family moved to Texas from Pakistan when she was a baby, seventeen-year-old Zara Hossain has only ever called Corpus Christi home. Being the only Muslim girl at her conservative Catholic school, blending in isn't really an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love & Other Natural Disasters

  Sugiura, Misa

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  When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• These Violent Delights

  Gong, Chloe

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  The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Lie

  Rutkoski, Marie

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  Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of Nirrim's low status either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences. Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest. She meets Sid, a rakish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

  Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer)

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  Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Felix Ever After

  Callender, Kacen

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  Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.

• Flamer

  Curato, Mike

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  It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything Sad Is Untrue

  (a True Story)

  Nayeri, Daniel

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  At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

  Philippe, Ben

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  Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silvered Serpents

  Chokshi, Roshani

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  Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost - one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Almost American Girl

  An Illustrated Memoir

  Ha, Robin

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  A graphic novel memoir of the author, who grew up as an only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea. When her mother announces her remarriage and relocation plans, Robin's life changes overnight and her struggles mount quickly. Then one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Talk About Love

  Kann, Claire

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  Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Butterfly Yellow

  Lai, Thanhha

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  A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.

• Unbroken

  13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

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  An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators. The collection includes stories of interstellar war, a journey to Persia, a dating debacle. The teenaged characters reflect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovely, Dark, and Deep

  Chen, Justina, 1968-

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  Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow, she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Very Large Expanse of Sea

  Mafi, Tahereh

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  A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.

• History Is All You Left Me

  Silvera, Adam, 1990-

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  Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But when Theo dies in a drowning accident, the future Griffin's been imagining for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You're Welcome, Universe

  Gardner, Whitney

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  When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little & Lion

  a Novel

  Colbert, Brandy

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  When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). Her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation