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The magic fish
by Le Nguyen Trung
Laura's Pick:
"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiâên still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiâên, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"
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Flamer
by Mike Curato
Laura's Pick:
In the summer between middle school and high school, Aiden Navarro navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and finds himself drawn to Elias, a boy he can't stop thinking about.
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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
by George M. Johnson
Laura's Pick:
A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy.
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Felix ever after
by Kacen Callender
Laura's Pick:
Worrying that his combination of such marginalizing qualities as being Black, queer and trans are too impossible to allow happiness, Felix turns vengeful in the face of transphobic hate messages before finding himself in a quasi-love triangle.
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Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
by Debbie Levy
Lisa's Pick:
The award-winning author of I Dissent presents a portrait of the Supreme Court Justice and modern feminist icon that reveals the personal experiences that shaped her philosophy about how lasting change can be accomplished one step at a time.
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This is my America
by Kim Johnson
Lisa's Pick:
Sending weekly letters to an organization she hopes will save her innocent father from death row, 17-year-old Tracy uncovers racist community secrets when her track star brother is wrongly accused of murder. A first novel.
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Six of crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Jeff's Pick:
Six dangerous outcasts must learn to work together after they are offered an impossible heist that can save the world from destruction
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Crooked kingdom
by Leigh Bardugo
Jeff's Pick:
Kaz and his crew find their loyalties tested after pulling off an impossible heist and are forced to fight for their lives when powerful enemies descend on Ketterdam in pursuit of knowledge about a dangerous drug
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Call down the hawk
by Maggie Stiefvater
Jeff's Pick:
In a world where dreamers have the ability to pull the wonders and catastrophes of their dreams into reality, a thief becomes inextricably tied to the dream objects she pursues while a hunter races to prevent destructive dreaming. By the award-winning author of the Raven Cycle series.
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
Emily's Pick:
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors
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Admission
by Julie Buxbaum
Sara's Pick:
A high school senior on the brink of getting everything she has ever wanted is forced to reckon with the truth and her own complicity when her mother is arrested in a massive college admissions bribery scandal. By the best-selling author of Hope and Other Punch Lines.
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Today tonight tomorrow
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Sara's Pick:
A bitter rivalry between two overachieving high school seniors erupts after one of them is named valedictorian on a day that finds them unexpectedly teaming up and falling for each other while competing against their fellow graduates during a farewell tour of Seattle.
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Girl, unframed
by Deb Caletti
Sara's Pick:
Reluctantly returning to her film star mother’s home in California, Sydney finds herself the object of unwanted attention before a thrilling night gone wrong calls her loyalties into question. By the award-winning author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart.
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Blue Flag 1
by Kaito
Sara's Pick:
Love is already hard enough, but it becomes an unnavigable maze for unassuming high school student Taichi Ichinose and his shy classmate Futaba Kuze when they begin to fall for each other after their best friends have already fallen for them.
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