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Fight Like a Girl: Feminist Reads
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Shout
by Laurie Halse Anderson
A poetic memoir and urgent call-to-action by the award-winning author of Speak blends free-verse reflections with deeply personal stories from her life to rally today's young people to stand up and fight the abuses, censorship and hatred of today's world.
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The last voyage of Poe Blythe
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
A teen captain of her Outpost's last mining ship targets a band of thieving river raiders before the activities of an unknown traitor make her question how far she is willing to go for revenge. By the best-selling author of the Matched trilogy.
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Girl mans up
by M-E Girard
Increasingly aware of her homosexuality and preferring to avoid looking too feminine, Pen is routinely mistaken for a boy and struggles to navigate complications in her friendships with a childhood buddy whose behavior has become cruel and a fellow gamer who seems to have it all.
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Amelia Westlake was never here
by Erin Gough
A dutiful overachiever and a troublemaker who never met an injustice she didn't fight set aside their differences to join forces in a feminist effort to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school, a plan that is complicated by their unexpected attraction.
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Her royal highness
by Rachel Hawkins
A laugh-out-loud companion to Royals finds a Houston teen pursuing an education at an exclusive Scottish boarding school to mend her broken heart before clashing with, and then unexpectedly falling for, her spoiled princess roommate.
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The afterward
by E. K Johnston
Apprentice knight Kalanthe and a talented thief Olsa navigate growing notoriety and the illusions of their kingdom's foretold golden age to hold fast to their newfound independence and their growing love for each other. By the best-selling author of Star Wars: Ahsoka.
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The valiant
by Lesley Livingston
Fallon, the daughter of a Celtic king, is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
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You must not miss
by Katrina Leno
When her family's destructiveness leads to her older sister's abrupt departure and her own ostracism at school, a teen retreats into her journal and conjurs a fantasy world of magic, monsters and revenge. By the author of Summer of Salt.
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Moxie : a novel
by Jennifer Mathieu
Witnessing a series of sexist incidents at her high school, an exasperated teen takes a page from her former Riot Grrrl mom's past and creates an anonymous feminist zine (magazine) that triggers a revolution in her small-town Texas high school. By the author of The Truth About Alice.
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Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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There's something about Sweetie
by Sandhya Menon
A companion to the best-selling When Dimple Met Rishi finds a brokenhearted Indian-American teen agreeing to allow his parents to set him up on culturally approved dates with a talented track athlete, who is tired of being nagged by her traditionally minded family about her plus-sized body.
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Amal unbound
by Aisha Saeed
Forced to leave school to care for her siblings in accordance with Pakistani village tradition, a disappointed Amal suffers an accidental run-in with the son of a corrupt landlord and is forced into indentured servitude, where her witness to her master's nefarious dealings compels her to make risky alliances in support of change. By the author of Written in the Stars.
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