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The poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
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The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
by Kate Moore
Recounts the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to radium while working factory jobs during World War I, describing how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a battle for workers' rights.
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The Underground Railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
After Cora, a pre-Civil War Georgia slave, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South.
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Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis
by Kim Todd
Traces the life and work of the pioneering seventeenth-century woman naturalist who defied period conventions throughout her career, discussing the scientific and political backdrop of her life, her unprecedented solo expedition to study insect metamorphosis in the New World, and her role in the establishment of a new branch of biology.
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The first rule of punk
by Celia C. Pérez
After María Luisa O'Neill-Morales moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago, she violates her school's dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurns the school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded friends.
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The house in the cerulean sea
by TJ Klune
Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets.
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Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
by Elena Favilli
Tells the stories of one hundred heroic women from around the globe and across history, from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams.
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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
by Ibram X Kendi
A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists.
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Invisible women : data bias in a world designed for men
by Caroline Criado-Perez
In a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé, a leading feminist activist examines how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women by diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office and more.
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
by Alison Bechdel
In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ground-breaking comic strip series, Dykes to Watch Out For brings together a new collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of a diverse group of lesbian friends, in a volume that features selections from eleven previous volumes, as well as sixty strips never before published in book form.
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Stories for boys who dare to be different : true tales of amazing boys who changed the world without killing dragons
by Ben Brooks
Tells the stories of seventy-six heroic men and boys from around the globe and across history, including Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, and Alan Turing.
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We should all be feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
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