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Everything we never had
by Randy Ribay
Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships.
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Lunar New Year love story
by Gene Luen Yang
High school senior Valentina adored Valentine's Day until a shocking revelation leads her to believe her love life is cursed, until a Lunar New Year celebration introduces her to charming lion dancer boys and a chance at breaking her family's curse.
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Twenty-four seconds from now... : a LOVE story
by Jason Reynolds
The #1 New York Times best-selling author tackles a first-time sexual experience from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered and undeniably sweet stream of consciousness story about teen boy Neon, who is about to experience a huge first with his girlfriend, Aria.
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Black girl you are Atlas
by Renee Watson
This semi-autobiographical collection of poems recounts the New York Times best-selling author's experience growing up as a Black girl at the intersections of race, class and gender and provides an urgent call for Black girls to step into their power.
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Brownstone
by Samuel Teer
Left alone with her Guatemalan father for the summer while her mom goes on a once-in-a-lifetime trip without her, Almudena struggles to adjust to this new reality by getting to know the residents of his Latin American neighborhood while helping his dad fix his broken-down brownstone--and their relationship.
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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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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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Compound fracture
by Andrew Joseph White
After being nearly beaten to death for evidence he holds against the corrupt sheriff, sixteen-year-old transgender Miles joins his fellow townsfolk to end the blood feud and oppressive politics that plague his town.
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The deep dark
by Molly Knox Ostertag
When her childhood friend comes back to town, high school senior Mags, who has a secret that drains her energy and leaves her bleeding, refuses to get attached until the darkness threatens to engulf them, forcing her to risk everything and drag her secret into the light.
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The great cool ranch dorito in the sky
by Josh Galarza
Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal, and his deepest insecurities, online.
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The unboxing of a Black girl
by Angela Shanté
Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shantâe, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique of how the world raises Black girls.
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Shut up, this is serious
by Carolina Ixta
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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Libertad
by Bessie Flores Zaldívar
In 2017 Honduras, as the 2017 presidential election looms, queer high school senior Libertad faces homophobia at home and school and threats to her political poetry online, and when tragedy strikes, she must speak her truth or leave the only home she's ever known.
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Wild dreamers
by Margarita Engle
Living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI's most wanted, Ana meets Leandro, who struggles with crippling anxiety, and forming an instant connection, they fight to protect wildlife and heal from their troubled pasts.
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Ultraviolet
by Aida Salazar
Bent on revenge after betrayal and heartbreak, eighth grader Elio Solis doesn't anticipate that a fight to prove his manhood and defend his girlfriend's honor will lead to dire consequences, in this hilarious, heartwarming and highly relatable coming-of-age story about puberty, hormones and first love.
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Chronically Dolores
by Maya Van Wagenen
Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Beautiful, talented Terpsichore will help Dolores win back her ex-best friend, Shae. And Dolores will convince Terpsichore's mom that her daughter has the social skills to survive public school.
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Light enough to float
by Lauren Seal
The story of a teenage girl's recovery, in a psychiatric hospital, from anorexia, told in poetry.
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On the bright side
by Anna Sortino
After her deaf boarding school shuts down, Ellie is mainstreamed into public high school, which is extremely difficult, especially when she's paired with Jackson, a boy who gets it all wrong, but when he receives a life-changing diagnosis, they unexpectedly become each other's lifeline.
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Canto contigo : a novel
by Jonny Garza Villa
When a mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot, but what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face.
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Most ardently : a Pride & prejudice remix
by Gabe Cole Novoa
While exploring the city dressed as a young gentleman in 1812 London, trans boy Oliver meets and falls in love with Darcy, forcing him to choose between a life of pretending to be something he's not or risking everything for a life that is truly his own.
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Navigating with you
by Jeremy Whitley
Neesha Sparks is a disabled, vocal community activist with a passion for costume design. Gabby Graciana is an optimistic surfer - and, like Neesha, a new kid at school. When the two girls discover that they like the same manga series, Navigator Nozomi, they become more than just fellow new kids. But it was more than just having read the same book series--neither of them had finished it! Soon, they become new friends on a mission - to track down the remaining Navigator Nozomi books.
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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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Time and time again
by Chatham Greenfield
Living the same day over and over again, Phoebe is taken out of her comfort zone and falls deeper in love with childhood crush Jess when he comes crashing into the time loop.
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Night owls
by A. R. Vishny
Owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition, sisters Clara and Molly, who work their historic movie theater by day and feed on men in secret at night, must enter New York's monstrous underworld to save Molly's girlfriend, breaking all their rules of love, of life and of death itself.
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The Forbidden Book
by Sacha Lamb
On the night before her wedding, 17-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life. To keep from being discovered, she takes on the male identity of Isser Jacobs — but it soon becomes clear that there is a real Isser Jacobs, and people want him dead.
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Trajectory
by Cambria Gordon
As WWII rages overseas, 17-year-old Eleanor, a once-in-a-generation math whiz, is recruited by the U.S. Army and tasked with the ultimate challenge: to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that could secure the world's freedom, but before she can do that, she must unlock an even bigger mystery: herself.
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When the world was ours
by Liz Kessler
Torn apart by the historical events leading up to World War II, three friends from 1936 Vienna are scattered to different countries as darkness spreads throughout Europe, impacting their families and their bonds with each other
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Iron widow
by Xiran Jay Zhao
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China...When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare kind of female pilot who can sacrifice males to power up Chrysalises instead.
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Not like other girls
by Meredith Adamo
When her former best friend Maddie disappears after coming to her for help, Jo-Lynn, an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked, finds a way back inside the clique where she is forced to confront everything she'd rather forget to find the girl who betrayed her.
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Aisle nine
by Ian X. Cho
When a hell portal opens up in aisle nine, discount-mart checkout clerk Jasper teams up with his crush, who shares his frightening vison of the impending apocalypse, to save the world before this Black Friday becomes the darkest yet.
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Dead things are closer than they appear
by Robin Wasley
During a magical apocalypse, which has unleashed monsters and murderers, ordinary teen Sid Spencer teams up with a ragtag crew of would-be heroes to save the world as she knows it and do something extraordinary.
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Shut up, this is serious
by Carolina Ixta
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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The wilderness of girls
by Madeline Claire Franklin
After being placed in foster care, Rhi is hungry for a fresh start and begins working at the Happy Valley Wildlife Preserve. While in the woods, she stumbles upon a surreal sight: a pack of wolves guarding four feral and majestic girls.
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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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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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The unboxing of a Black girl
by Angela Shanté
Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shantâe, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique of how the world raises Black girls.
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The girl who sang : a Holocaust memoir of hope and survival
by Estelle Nadel
When the Nazis invade her small Polish town, Enia Feld is separated from her family and forced into hiding and at the mercy of her neighbors, in this gripping graphic memoir of survival and rediscovering your song during the Holocaust.
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