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Shut up, this is serious
by Carolina Ixta
Things are hella complicated. Weighed down by a depression she can't seem to shake, Belén helps Leti, hangs out with an older guy, and cuts a lot of class. She soon realizes, though, that distractions are only temporary. Leti is becoming a mother. Classmates are getting ready for college. But what about Belén? What future is there for girls like her? An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with messy complexities.
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Bright red fruit
by Safia Elhillo
Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her place in her community.
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Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear
by Robin Wasley
Seventeen-year-old Sid lives in a tourist town where magic lies buried beneath the earth, but other than that, has a completely ordinary existence, until one day her brother goes missing and the ground opens up, unleashing the magic and zombies within.
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They bloom at night
by Trang Thanh Tran
When a red algae bloom takes over Mercy, Louisiana, after a devastating hurricane, mutated wildlife lurks in the water, and when Mercy's predatory leader demands Noon and her mom catch a creature that has been drowning residents, Noon must confront the past.
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Every borrowed beat
by Erin Stewart
After receiving a heart transplant, 17-year-old Sydney wants to learn as much as she can about Mia, the person whose heart she inherited, and falls deeply into Mia's world, in a romantic story about looking at memory, grief and guilt.
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A bird in the air means we can still breathe
by Mahogany L. Browne
In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sunrise on the reaping
by Suzanne Collins
It's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, but something in him wants to fight, in the fifth book in the Hunger Games series.
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When we ride : a novel
by Rex Ogle
Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That's why she gave him her car. Diego's best friend, Lawson, needs a ride--because Lawson is dealing. As the lines between dealer and driver blur, everything Diego has worked for is jeopardized, and he faces a deadly reckoning with the choices he and his best friend have made. Award-winning memoirist and poet Rex Ogle's searing first novel-in-verse is an unforgettable story of the power and price of loyalty.
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The Forbidden Book
by Sacha Lamb
On the night before her wedding, seventeen-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life, grabbing men's clothes and a sharp knife. To keep from being found, she takes on the identity of Isser Jacobs -- but soon it becomes clear that the real Isser Jacobs is a lawbreaker, a revolutionary, and powerful people want him dead. Sorel is drawn into the dark underworld of her small city, where smugglers, forgers, and wicked angels fight for control of the Jewish community.
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How the boogeyman became a poet
by Tony. 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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Shackled : a tale of wronged kids, rogue judges, and a town that looked away
by Candy J. Cooper
Recounting the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania in the early 2000s, this gripping combination of extensive research and original reporting shows how more than 2,500 children and teens were wrongly sent to a for-profit detention center by two corrupt judges.
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Homebody
by Theo Parish
In this intimate and defiantly hopeful graphic novel memoir, the author shares their journey to find a home within themself, taking readers through the experiences and everyday moments that all led up to them finding the term "nonbinary,” which finally struck a chord.
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Road home
by Rex Ogle
In this final chapter in his memoir trilogy, the author tells the story of his coming out and his father's rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets as he searches for a place to call home.
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Shift happens : the history of labor in the United States
by J. Albert Mann
This eye-opening and engaging history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor and more documents how the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.
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Hunter x hunter : 3-in-1 edition. Volume 1
by Yoshihiro Togashi
When country boy Gon decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a legendary Hunter, he embarks across the perilous sea to take the Hunter Exam. After he finally finds the elusive Exam Hall, the other Hunter hopefuls prove deadly serious, and the tests are wild and wicked. Will Gon's plucky spirit and courageous heart be enough to carry him closer to his dream?
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Hunger's Bite
by Taylor Robin
Teen vampire Warwick Farley is dispatched by an international paranormal investigation organization to look into an ocean liner whose mysterious owner could threaten Britain's maritime business, in a horror adventure told in bold, moody colors.
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The marble queen
by Anna Kopp
A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the prince, but his sister.
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The Lizzie Borden story
by Jeramey Kraatz
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Churchill witnesses a murder at his next-door neighbor's house and uses what he witnessed to help the police find the murderer, even facing the prime suspect, Lizzie Borden, accused of killing her own father and stepmother.
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Gachiakuta. 2
by Kei Urana
After being falsely accused of murdering the man who raised him, Rudo was dropped into the Pit, where horrible monsters called trash beasts roam and the very air is toxic. But there are people known as Givers who have the power to defeat these beasts and Rudo is one of them. If Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering a way back to his home and finding the true killer, he must first navigate this new world.
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Pearl
by Sherri L. Smith
Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl who lives in Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls ill, Amy travels to visit family in Hiroshima for the first time. But this is 1941. When the Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor, it becomes impossible for Amy to return to Hawaii. Torn between two countries at war, Amy must figure out where her loyalties lie and, in the face of unthinkable tragedy, find hope in the rubble of a changed world.
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The golden compass : the graphic novel
by Stâephane Melchior-Durand
A single-volume compilation of the graphic novel adaptations of the first book in Philip Pullman's modern classic trilogy collects the full story of Lyra's early days at Oxford, her journey to the far north to rescue the kidnapped children, her hot-air balloon escape and her role in Asriel's plot to build a bridge to another world.
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Pantomime
by Christopher Sebela
Haley and her brother Max are alone after their mother's death. They're sent to Wayfair Academy, a special needs boarding school. Eventually, they find family among other deaf children. When the group decides to commit a crime, they soon find out that stealing from the wrong person has its consequences.
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