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Teen Picks from CFPL January 2019
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Mock Award Young Adult Literature Winners for 2019!
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Realistic Fiction - Michael L. Printz Best YA Fiction - CFPL Choice
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
by Adib Khorram
A Persian-American teenager would rather wallow in pop culture than the traditions of his mixed family must also struggle with clinical depression and his feelings for a boy who helps him embrace his Iranian heritage.
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Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
From the first sight of that fabulous cover, Zelie won our hearts even before we learnt how she came of age in a land where powerful women magis must come into their own in order to save their people. A ginormous success in every way.
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Historical Fiction - CFPL Choice
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Blood Water Paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi rises to become on of the greatest painters of the age, fighting oppression and violation at every turn. One of the great heroines gets a deservedly superb treatment of her extraordinary life.
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Mystery - Edgar Award - CFPL Choice
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The Case for Jamie
by Brittany Cavallaro
Cavallaro's brilliant updating of Sherlock Holmes concludes with this final book in her trilogy about Charlotte, Jamie and company as they solve not just the central mysteries plaguing them but the secrets of their own hearts. Irresistible, my dear Watson!
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First Novel - CFPL Choice
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The Astonishing Color of After
by Emily X. R. Pan
Pan hits it out of the park with her beautiful tale of a teen in mourning for her mother who travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents, learn about her heritage, and face the truth about her mother's death. Beautiful writing and unforgettable characters.
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Best Cover and the Book Was Good Too Award
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My So-Called Bollywood Life
by Nisha Sharma
Winnie Mehta teams with fellow film fan Dev to get her life back on track and find her true soul mate, and discovers there's more to life than prophecy.
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Non Fiction - YALSA's Award for Excellence - CFPL Choice
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Brazen : Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
by Pénélope Bagieu
Through characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, a celebrated graphic novelist profiles the lives of formidable female role models—some world famous, some little known—including Nellie Bly, Mae Jemison, Josephine Baker, Naziq al-Abid and many others, in an entertaining, comic-style biography that is sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies. Simultaneous.
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Graphic - CYBIL YA Award - CFPL Choice
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Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett KrosoczkaA powerful graphic memoir by the award-winning author of Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute traces the author's unconventional coming of age with a drug-addict mother, an absent father and two lovingly opinionated grandparents
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Science Fiction - The Nebula/Andre Norton Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy - CFPL Choice
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Wildcard
by Marie Lu
"Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats"
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LGBTQ - LAMBDA Young Adult Award - CFPL Choice
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
by Mackenzi Lee
The sequel to A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Lee does it again with another romp through the Regency, featuring a diverse cast of women who are searching for rights and riches.
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Speculative Fantasy - The Leigh Bardugo Award Which Fiona Made Up to Honor Great Writers who Remind her of Bardugo
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The Belles
by Dhonielle Clayton
Born one of the revered Belles in the opulent world of Orleans, where people are naturally born gray and seek the talented Belles to transform themselves with beauty, Camellia dreams of being declared the queen's favorite before her arrival at court exposes dark and dangerous realities within the palace walls. Sequel coming in 2019.
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Selections by Fiona Stevenson of the Kids & Young Adult Departments.
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