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Teen Reads July 2020 Don't forget to sign up and track your reading through READsquared to earn prizes for the reading you're already doing!
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All the things we do in the dark
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Saundra Mitchell
Hiding the truth about her distinguishing facial scar, a tattooed teen falls in love with a sweet newcomer before finding everything she cares about threatened by another person’s dangerous secret.
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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real- life monster.
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The Grief Keeper
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Alexandra Villasante
Wanting to enjoy an amazing life in America like her favorite television characters, an undocumented 17-year-old bargains for her asylum by becoming a grief keeper to save someone else's life.
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The meaning of birds
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Jaye Robin Brown
Falling in love with a woman who encourages her to embrace her artistic side to manage the anger and pain she has endured all her life, Jess embarks on a destructive path when her friend suddenly dies.
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Wilder girls
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Rory Power
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
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Anger Is a Gift
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Mark Oshiro
Struggling with panic attacks and grief over his father's death, high school junior Moss, in the face of a racist school administration, decides to organize a protest that escalates into violence.
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Darius the Great is not okay
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Adib Khorram
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life
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Girl made of stars
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Ashley Herring Blake
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
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Sawkill girls
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Claire Legrand
After girls mysteriously disappear on the island of Sawkill Rock, three unlikely friends come together to destroy the Collector, a monster from another world who grows stronger with each kill.
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The dangerous art of blending in
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Angelo Surmelis
A story inspired by the award-winning designer's youth traces the experiences of an immigrant Greek boy coming to terms with his sexuality in an abusive household.
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The poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo
When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
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The Henna Wars
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Adiba Jaigirdar
Dismayed by her parents’ disapproval after she comes out as a lesbian, Bangladeshi Irish Nishat sets her sights on winning her school’s business competition. Marketing her mehndi design skills seems like the perfect plan...until Nishat’s childhood friend (and current crush) Flávia opens a competing henna art business.
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The gravity of us
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Phil Stamper
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon,the son of another astronaut
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Felix Ever After
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Kheryn Callender
Worrying that his combination of such marginalizing qualities as being black, queer and trans are too impossible to allow happiness, Felix turns vengeful in the face of transphobic hate messages before finding himself in a quasi-love triangle.
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The Black Flamingo
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Dean Atta
A fierce coming-of-age novel about identity and the liberating power of drag follows the experiences of a mixed-race teen in London who struggles to connect with his heritage before coming out and establishing his place in Drag Society.
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Girl Crushed
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Katie Heaney
Dumped by her best friend and girlfriend a month before their senior year, a heartbroken Quinn struggles to move on with a new crush when she is unable to completely forget her ex.
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Late to the party
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Kelly Quindlen
Preferring to hang out with her best friends rather than pursue relationships, a gay teen finds her perspectives changed by an unexpected secret relationship with a beautiful senior who may or may not also like girls.
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Clap when you land
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Elizabeth Acevedo
An evocative novel in verse by the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.
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Camp
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L. C. Rosen
The author of Jack of Hearts (and other parts) presents a screwball comedy that critiques the culture of toxic masculinity as it is experienced by a 16-year-old youth at an LGBTQ+ summer camp where he reinvents himself to attract a crush’s attention.
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Stay Gold
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Tobly Mcsmith
A transgender boy who keeps his head down during his senior year at a new school and a cisgender girl who avoids dating find their immediate chemistry complicating their resolve.
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The State of Us
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Shaun David Hutchinson
Struggling with the high-profile social expectations of prospective first families, the 17-year-old sons of rival Democratic and Republican presidential candidates secretly fall in love on the sidelines of an increasingly contentious campaign.
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I'll Be the One
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Lyla Lee
A nuanced celebration of body positivity by the author of the Mindy Kim series follows the experiences of a plus-sized teen girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition to become the next big K-pop star.
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Dark and Deepest Red
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Anna-Marie McLemore
Trapped in a pair of red shoes that compel her to dance uncontrollably, Rosella is drawn to a youth of questionable intent whose family was blamed for witchcraft centuries earlier. By the award-winning author of When the Moon Was Ours.
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When we were magic
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Sarah Gailey
Four teen witches whose secret abilities have forged their friendship find their close bond tested by complicated love, jealousy and a magical accident that ends a boy’s life.
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