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Teen Summer Reading Book BINGO: Try a genre you don't normally read.
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Throwback
by Maurene Goo
Sent back to the‘90s where she finds herself in high school with her 17-year-old mother, Samantha Kang finds the right romance at the wrong time while trying to fit into an analog world and make things right with her mom.
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The Davenports
by Krystal Marquis
Inspired by the real-life story of C.R. Patterson and his family, this sweeping novel is centered around the Davenports, one of the few Black families of immense wealth, and follows four determined and passionate young Black women who discover the courage to take charge of their lives — and love.
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Hell followed with us
by Andrew Joseph White
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him...Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot...Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens...Benji accepts Nick's terms...until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.
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Want
by Cindy Pon
A tale set in a heavily polluted Taipei of the near future follows the efforts of a group of teens to save their city in the face of social divisions that enable the wealthy to secure long, protected lives while the poor suffer illness and early death.
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Burn baby burn
by Meg Medina
Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence.
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The getaway
by Lamar Giles
When Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts, suddenly offers the richest and most powerful families a safe haven from the nightmare outside its walls, Jay and his crew learn just how far they'll go to find out the truth and save themselves.
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Superman : dawnbreaker
by Matt de la Peäna
After learning that undocumented workers are going missing in Smallville, Clark Kent teams up with his best friend Lana Lang to find them.
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Dread nation
by Justina Ireland
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies
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The lost Dreamer
by Lizz Huerta
In an ancient Mesoamerican world, Indir, a Dreamer able to see beyond reality, must carefully guard her secrets from the new king, who plans to see the Dreamers destroyed, while Saya, a seer, risks everything to find the truth about her gifts.
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The downstairs girl
by Stacey Lee
1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady.'
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The ivory key
by Akshaya Raman
Four estranged royal siblings, each harboring secrets and conflicting agendas, must learn to work together as they search for the Ivory Key—a thing of legend that will lead to a new source of magic.
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Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating
by Adiba Jaigirdar
Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts outthat she's in a relationship...with a girl her friends absolutely hate--Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other.
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Amelia unabridged
by Ashley Schumacher
Heartbroken when her best friend dies in a tragic accident, a high school senior questions everything she planned for her future, before receiving a mysterious rare edition of her favorite series and falling in love with its enigmatic author.
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So many beginnings : a Little Women remix
by Bethany C. Morrow
In this powerful retelling of the classic novel, four young Black sisters, coming of age during the American Civil War, face first love, health issues, heartbreak and new horizons. 50,000 first printing. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Extasia
by Claire Legrand
To protect her village against the evil power living beneath the black mountain, a girl joins a coven, becoming one of the four saints of Haven and standing with her sisters to save their people from destruction.
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I hope you get this message
by Farah Naz Rishi
When Earth receives messages from another world, claiming that the planet is their created colony and that they are planning to destroy it within a week, three teens are forced to confront the mistakes of their past before they run out of time.
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In every generation
by Kendare Blake
Follow the next generation of Scoobies and Slayers who must defeat a powerful new evil.
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Chlorine sky
by Mahogany L. Browne
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
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Cold
by Mariko Tamaki
After being murdered, Todd Mayer, now some sort of ghost, replays the events that led to his death, while Georgia, who didn’t know Todd but feels a strange connection, sets out to expose a killer in their quiet town.
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