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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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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. Simultaneous eBook.
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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. 125,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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They went left
by Monica Hesse
Navigating injuries and trauma after being liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1945 Germany, 18-year-old Zofia joins other survivors to keep a promise to find her brother. By the award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Mad, bad & dangerous to know
by Samira Ahmed
"It's August in Paris, but 17-year-old Khayyam-American, Desi, Muslim, the only child of Chicago-based academics with a summer apartment on the Ile de la Cite-is at a crossroads. Uncertain of her relationship with Zaid, the boy back home, she can't hold on to the past. Stung by her dream college's rejection of the essay she wrote to apply early, she doesn't see a clear future. Khayyam is alone in her belief that the mysterious "raven-tressed lady" in the poems of Alexandre Dumas not only inspired the paintings of Eugène Delacroix, they were based on a real person named Leila. A chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas plunges Khayyam back into her research and the hunt for the truth. Interstitials offer a tantalizing glimpse of Leila's lifeas it could have been-defined by a high-wire balance of privileged status, servitude, and survival as a Muslim woman subject to European patriarchy and colonialism. As the stakes rise for both, Khayyam and Leila must ultimately wrestle with desires and expectations outside of their control to determine their own fates"
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We are not free
by Traci Chee
Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The falling in love montage
by Ciara Smyth
Challenged to break her no-relationships rule by a new friend who invites her to share in a summer of cliché rom-com reenactments that will end with no hurt feelings upon the arrival of fall, a cynical lesbian teen struggles to let go when she unexpectedly falls in love for real. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Love, life, and the list
by Kasie West
Aspiring artist Abby decides that in order to give her art "more heart" she will complete a list of tasks over the summer, ranging from facing a fear to falling in love, but she soon finds the list more difficult than she imagined
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Little white lies
by Jennifer Barnes
An 18-year-old auto mechanic, raised by a down-on-her-luck single mom, allows her wealthy estranged grandmother to bribe her into becoming a Southern debutante in the hope of learning the identity of her father. 35,000 first printing.
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Camp So-and-So
by Mary McCoy
"Twenty five girls are invited to attend the mysterious Camp So-and-So over the summer where they work with their cabin mates to compete in the All-Camp Sports 7 Follies"
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