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Faith Taking Flight : Taking Flight
by Julie Murphy
A plus-sized high school senior who hides a secret ability to fly pursues an unexpected romantic relationship with the heroine star of her favorite teen drama before her investigation into a new recreational drug puts those she loves in danger. By the best-selling author of Dumplin’.
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Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
by Jennifer De Leon
Reinventing herself at a privileged white suburban high school to get by in the face of escalating racial tensions, a first-generation American-LatinX teen is forced to take a stand when she discovers that her absent father cannot legally return home. A first novel.
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Cemetery Boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death. A first novel.
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Bookish and the Beast
by Ashley Poston
In this adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," the teenaged star of a popular science fiction movie franchise hides out in a small town, following a tabloid scandal, and meets the bookish Rosie Thorne who is still grieving over her mother's death
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The Black Kids
by Christina Hammonds Reed
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble
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Blood & Honey
by Shelby Mahurin
Lou, Reid, Coco, and Ansel are on the run from coven, kingdom, and church—fugitives with nowhere to hide. To survive, they need allies. Strong ones. But as Lou becomes increasingly desperate to save those she loves, she turns to a darker side of magic that may cost Reid the one thing he can’t bear to lose. Bound to her always, his vows were clear: where Lou goes, he will go; and where she stays, he will stay. Until death do they part.
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A Wicked Magic
by Sasha Laurens
Reuniting after months of estrangement in the aftermath of a spell gone terribly wrong, witches Dan and Liss team up to rescue the latter’s boyfriend from an ancient underground force.
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Vicious Spirits
by Kat Cho
A companion to Wicked Fox finds Miyoung and Jihoon’s efforts to start over in the wake of devastating losses supported by Somin and Junu, before Miyoung’s progressive illness forces them to consider a dangerous sacrifice.
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Six Angry Girls
by Adrienne Kisner
When her promising senior year is upended by devastating setbacks, including her expulsion from the Mock Trial team that voted girls out after she spent three years leading it to success, Raina finds a new sense of purpose at a politically active craft store, where she becomes inspired to create a rival all-girls team.
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Punching the Air
by Ibi Zoboi
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.
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New Teen Graphic Novels & Manga
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Displacement
by Kiku Hughes
On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II
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Dancing at the Pity Party : a Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
by Tyler Feder
A debut graphic novel traces the author’s experiences with the loss of her mother, tracing the poignant journey of her mother’s diagnosis and treatment and her own experiences with sitting Shiva and making sense of life after her mother’s death.
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You Brought Me the Ocean
by Alex Sanchez
Jake Hyde yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown in New Mexico for a college on the coast, and while his family and friends encourage him to stay, he must deal with his secrets of being gay and some strange new blue markings on his skin giving him a glow when he touches water
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His Dark Materials
Follows an orphan girl who, in search of her missing friend, uncovers a series of kidnappings, leading her on an epic adventure.
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Weathering With You
A boy runs away to Tokyo and befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.
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