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Americanized : Rebel Without a Green Card
by Sara Saedi
Learning as a teenager that her Iranian family is undocumented, 13-year-old, straight-A student Sara Saedi juggles the challenges of trying to obtain a green card with the stressful realities of being an everyday American teen.
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Ayesha at Last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice finds a reluctant teacher who would avoid an arranged marriage setting aside her literary ambitions before falling in love with her perpetually single cousin's infuriatingly conservative fiancé.
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
by Ibi Zoboi
Edited by the National Book Award finalist and featuring contributions by a prestigious group of best-selling, award-winning and emerging African American young-adult authors, a timely literary collection shares modern insights into what it is like to be young and black in today's America.
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Dig
by A. S. King
When their rags-to-riches grandparents decide against bequeathing the family fortune to their descendants, five teens confront difficult secrets and the realities of their disadvantages before uniting in the face of a terrible choice to save the family name. By the award-winning author of Still Life With Tornado.
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Field Notes on Love
by Jennifer E. Smith
Embarking on what was supposed to be a romantic cross-country train journey with his girlfriend, a dumped boy sells his spare ticket to a girl devastated by a rejection from her college of choice, an arrangement that opens up new perspectives about their futures. By the best-selling author of Windfall.
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From Twinkle, With Love
by Sandhya Menon
Leaping at a fellow movie geek's offer to direct a submission for an upcoming summer film festival, Twinkle Mehra begins receiving anonymous romantic emails and finds herself torn between her longtime crush and her film-buff new friend. By the best-selling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.
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If I'm Being Honest
by Emily Wibberley
A follow-up to Always Never Yours finds a queen bee with a mean-girl reputation struggling to win the affection of her crush by making amends to those she has wronged, including a kindhearted gamer who appreciates her blunt honesty.
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Kingdom of Souls
by Rena Barron
Disappointing her family of powerful witch doctors because of her lack of abilities, Arrah makes the difficult choice to sacrifice years of her life for scraps of magic to uncover why children are going missing throughout the city.
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Light It Up
by Kekla Magoon
A follow-up to the award-winning How It Went Down finds the community of Underhill thrown into upheaval by the police shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old girl, a mistake that triggers clashes between justice-seeking protestors and white-supremacist demonstrators.
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Love From A to Z
by S. K. Ali
Suspended for standing up against a teacher's hate speech, a Muslim teen visits her aunt in Qatar, where she bonds with a motherless young man who is attempting to hide his multiple sclerosis diagnosis from his grieving father. By the author of Saints and Misfits.
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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
A girl and her best friend confront difficult choices in the face of a home city in denial when they meet a being who exposes the community’s willful disbelief about the existence of monsters. A first young adult novel by the award-winning authors of Freshwater.
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Summer Constellations
by Alisha Sevigny
Hoping to enjoy the summer after her younger brother's health scare, Julia is dismayed to learn that her crush is dating someone else and that a wealthy developer is looking to buy her financially strapped family's campground to build a casino resort, a situation that compels Julia to search for ways to save the business.
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The Smoke Thieves
by Sally Green
A shrewd princess, a loyal servant, a streetwise demon smoke hunter and a charming thief find their lives unexpectedly intersecting when war breaks out, compelling their effort to unify and defend the kingdom against a tyrant in possession of an ominous magic weapon. By the author of the Half Bad trilogy.
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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
by David Arnold
A surrealist tale by the best-selling author of Mosquitoland follows the experiences of a 16-year-old history enthusiast whose perspectives transform when he suddenly gains the ability to see changes in others, from mysterious scars and odd behaviors to rewritten histories and the unconscious ways that friends hurt one another.
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
by Laura Ruby
Abandoned in a Depression-era Chicago orphanage with her sister, a young woman endures injustice, poverty and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II. By the award-winning author of Bone Gap.
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This Time Will Be Different
by Misa Sugiura
Preferring a simple future to her mother's ambitions for her, a 17-year-old Japanese-American teen discovers her talent for flower arranging before her mother tries to sell the flower shop to the swindlers responsible for their hardships.
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