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The collectors : an anthology
by A. S. King
Centering around an unforgettable cast of characters and their strange and surprising collections, including a nonbinary kid collecting pieces of other people's collections, this anthology features contributions by such award-winning and best-selling authors as David Levithan and Jenny Torres Sanchez.
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Fire from the sky
by Moa Backe êAstot
With his life steeped in Sami tradition, Ánte wonders what people would think when his feelings for his best friend Erik grow into something more and if he should just ignore these emotions or go after what he truly wants.
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Gather
by Kenneth M. Cadow
Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. An unforeseen tragedy results in Ian and his dog taking off on the run, trying to evade a future that would mean leaving their house and their land. Even if the community comes together to help him, would Ian and Gather have a home to return to? Kenneth M. Cadow's resonant debut brings an emotional and ultimately hopeful story of one teen's resilience in the face of unthinkable hardships"
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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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Nigeria Jones
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
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Only this beautiful moment
by Abdi Nazemian
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture—and themselves.
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Imogen, obviously
by Becky Albertalli
Pretending to be her queer best friend Lili's former girlfriend, heterosexual Imogen Scott spends a lot of time with Lili's friend Tessa and starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with.
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Rez ball
by Byron Graves
When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up—not on the court, not in school and not in love.
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Saints of the household
by Ari Tison
After breaking up a fight that harms their school's star soccer player in the process, two Bribri American brothers have to lay low due to their physically abusive father and grapple with the weight of their actions to find their way forward.
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She is a haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran
Staying in Vietnam at the house her estranged father is restoring, Jade, plagued by sleep paralysis, bugs and a ghostly apparition, must expose the evil lurking in its walls before dark forces consume them all.
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America redux : visual stories from our dynamic history
by Ariel Aberg-Riger
In this immersive experience, 21 visual stories reveal the extraordinary, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society today, exploring themes that create our shared sense of American identity and questioning the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Family style : memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham
Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream. 60,000 first printing. Simultaneous. Illustrations.
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Saints of the household
by Ari Tison
After breaking up a fight that harms their school's star soccer player in the process, two Bribri American brothers have to lay low due to their physically abusive father and grapple with the weight of their actions to find their way forward.
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The Prince & the Coyote
by David Bowles
Meet Prince Acolmiztli. Puma of the Acolhua People.
And now, betrayed. A palace plot, placed by the deadly Tepaneca Empire, kills his mother and siblings, puts his father’s army into retreat, and sends Prince Acolmiztli into a treacherous exile. Battling hunger, snow-swept mountains, and the machinations of the city-states all around him, Prince Acolmiztli vows revenge.
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Worm : a Cuban American odyssey
by Edel Rodriguez
This stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba doubles as the story of the author's coming-of-age as an artist and activist who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggled to differentiate his adoptive county from the dictatorship he fled. Illustrations.
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I'd rather burn than bloom
by Shannon C. F. Rogers
Left with nothing but burning anger after her mother dies suddenly, Filipina-American teen Marisol is determined to stay angry until a new friendship begins to develop, making her see there's something more to who she is, and who she could be.
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In limbo
by Deb J. J. Lee
Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself.
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The blood years
by Elana K. Arnold
Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her.
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Wrath becomes her
by Aden Polydoros
Created as an avenging golem in the image of a man's daughter who was killed by the Nazis, Vera, the Jew the Nazis cannot kill, is made for vengeance but begins to wonder if she's more than the wrath her creator infused within her.
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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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Tilly in technicolor
by Mazey Eddings
When eighteen-year-old Tilly goes to London to intern for her sister's company, she begins to unmask her ADHD and connects with Oliver, another neurodivergent intern.
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Where you see yourself
by Claire Forrest
Having her heart set on a college in NYC with a major in Mass Media & Society, disabled high school senior Effie learns that sometimes growing up means being open to a world of possibilities you never even dreamed of.
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A first time for everything
by Dan Santat
In this feel-good coming-of-age memoir, the best-selling author and Caldecott Medalist shares his life-changing middle school trip to Europe during which he experiences a series of firsts, including first love.
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Huda F cares
by Huda Fahmy
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab
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