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• If I Tell You the Truth

  Kaur, Jasmin

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  ***Also available as an ebook.*** Told in prose, poetry, and illustration, this heartrending story weaves Kiran’s and Sahaara’s timelines together, showing a teenage Kiran and, later, her high school–aged daughter, Sahaara. Kiran is a young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One of the Good Ones

  Moulite, Maika

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House of Hollow

  Sutherland, Krystal

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  ***Also available as an ebook.*** Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Awakening of Malcolm X

  Shabazz, Ilyasah

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares, Malcolm drifts through days unsure of his future. Slowly, he befriends other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stolen Kingdom

  Boehme, Jillian

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** For a hundred years, the once-prosperous kingdom of Perin Faye has suffered under the rule of the greedy and power-hungry Thungrave kings. Maralyth Graylaern, a vintner's daughter, has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Playing With Fire

  Henry, April

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** Natalia is not the kind of girl who takes risks. Six years ago, she barely survived the house fire that killed her baby brother. Now she is cautious and always plays it safe. For…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Concrete Rose

  Thomas, Angie

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Single Lie

  Vincent, Rachel

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  ***Also available as an ebook.*** Nobody in Beckett's life seems to be telling the whole story. Her boyfriend Jake keeps hiding texts and might be cheating on her. Her father lied about losing his job before his shocking death. And everyone in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Miller, Kirsten, 1973-

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** All Bram wanted was to disappear—from her old life, her family's past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Game Changer

  Shusterman, Neal

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension—and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poetry of Secrets

  Gordon, Cambria

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  ***Also available as an ebook.*** Isabel Perez carries secrets with her every day. As a young woman in 1481, Trujillo, Spain, Isabel should be overjoyed that the alguacil of the city wants to marry her. She is supposed to be flattered especially…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda

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  ***Also available as an ebook.*** Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Iron Raven

  Kagawa, Julie

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  ***Also available as an ebook and audiobook CD.*** Robin Goodfellow. Puck. Prankster, joker, raven, fool… King Oberon’s right-hand jester from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The legends are many, but the truth will now be known as never before, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Betiya

  Rajurkar, Anuradha D.

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in--his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art--make him her mother's worst…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Have a Match

  Lord, Emma

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Realm Breaker

  Aveyard, Victoria

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth: She is the last of an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wings of Ebony

  Elle, J.

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  ***Also available as an ebook.*** “Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue's taken from her neighborhood by the father…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Project

  Summers, Courtney

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  ***Also available as an ebook or downloadable audiobook.*** Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died in a tragic car accident, her sister Bea joined the elusive community called The Unity Project, leaving Lo to fend for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Influence

  Shepard, Sara, 1977-

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  ***Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook.*** After a video she makes goes viral, everyone knows Delilah Rollins. And now that she's in LA, Delilah's standing on the edge of something incredible. Everything is going to change. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation