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So Let Them Burn
by Kamilah Cole
Five years ago, Faron vanquished her island’s colonizers, thanks to powers bestowed by the gods. When her sister unexpectedly bonds to an enemy dragon, Faron must decide between saving her country again or rescuing her sister. Read-alikes: Lauren Blackwood’s Wildblood; Tanvi Berwah’s Monsters Born and Made.
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| The Encanto's Daughter by Melissa de la CruzAfter MJ's father dies, she inherits the throne as ruler of the Encantos, fairies from Filipino mythology. But MJ lives in California with her human mother, so she has a lot to learn about controlling a magical kingdom and her own powers. Read-alikes: Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King; Tahereh Mafi’s This Woven Kingdom. |
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Kindling
by Traci Chee
After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings?—?elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives?—?must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
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Bittersweet in the Hollow
by Kate Pearsall
When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Wigned Man, leading her to wonder if there are some secrets best left buried
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Infinity Alchemist
by Kacen Callender
Brilliant alchemy student Ramsay caught self-taught Ash practicing alchemy illegally. The two strike a deal to find a legendarily powerful book together in exchange for exam tutoring. This romantic, fast-paced fantasy investigates what true power is and what people will do to gain it.
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April is National Poetry Month! |
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Disappearing act : a true story
by Jiordan Castle
This memoir-in-verse tells of the author's reckoning with her father's incarceration as she wondered why she felt like she was the one disappearing when he was the one gone.
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How the boogeyman became a poet
by Anthony R. Keith
In this powerful YA memoir, the poet, writer and hip-hop educator traces his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, homophobia and his own personal Boogeyman to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry.
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The denim diaries : a memoir
by Laurie Boyle Crompton
"From relationships and makeup to divorce and disordered eating, Laurie Boyle Crompton recounts the humor and heartbreak of her coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and New York City during the 1970s and '80s"
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Salt the water
by Candice Iloh
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid
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Forever is now
by Mariama Lockington
Suffering from agoraphobia after witnessing a scene of police brutality, Sadie discovers, with the help of family, friends and online activists, that she can build a safe place inside herself.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 13 and up! |
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