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Author
Series
Anna K volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Color Me In meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in Everything Within and In Between, a deeply honest coming-of-age story about reclaiming a heritage buried under assimilation, the bonds within families, and defining who you are for yourself.
3) The poet X
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
If You Like the Hate U Give, Read These!
LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
Womens History Month - YA
LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
Womens History Month - YA
Description
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship... 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 tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever...
Author
Series
Hawk volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hawk accepts her mother Max's help to prevent vengeful hybrids, amoral scientists, traitorous politicians, and a deadly virus from overwhelming her beloved, polluted city.
Author
Series
What if it's us volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
12) When we make it
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
13) Indivisible
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
14) The black kids
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
16) Like a love song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A Brazilian American teen pop star hopes a fake relationship will turn her image around. After a humiliating public breakup moments before winning an award, 17-year-old Natalie's tearful breakdown becomes an embarrassing meme. To rebrand and fix her reputation, Natalie agrees to pretend to have a new boyfriend, and she signs a contract that sets her up for three months with up-and-coming British teen actor William Ainsley, who is White and Jewish....
17) Game changer
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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 keeps on falling into universes that are almost-but-not-really his own, each one stranger than the last. And if he isn't careful, the world he's learning to see more clearly could blink out of existence...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
20) Long way home
Author
Series
Thunder road novels (Katie McGarry) volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the saving It's the code her father, a member of the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, raised her to live by. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out Terror business, Violet knows it's up to her to do the saving. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club-including Chevy, the boy she's known and loved her whole...
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