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Own Voices: Diverse Romance for Teens
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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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The way you make me feel
by Maurene Goo
Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, prankster Korean-American Clara Shin unexpectedly bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother. By the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love. Simultaneous eBook.
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Symptoms of a heartbreak
by Sona Charaipotra
Sixteen-year-old prodigy Saira Sehgal is America's youngest pediatric oncologist, trying to navigate the complex world of professional medicine while dealing with the expectations of family, friends, and fans and crushing on a teen-musician leukemia patient
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Don't date Rosa Santos
by Nina Moreno
Growing up in a cross-cultural region of Florida under the shadow of a sea curse that scares away most sailors, a Cuban-American teen struggles with family dynamics and college dreams before falling for a mysterious tattooed boy from the local marina who compels her to pursue her freedom.
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I wish you all the best
by Mason Deaver
Thrown out of their parents' home and moving in with their estranged sister after coming out as nonbinary, Ben De Backer struggles to endure an anxiety disorder and the last half of senior year while bonding with a charismatic new friend.
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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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American Street
by Ibi Zoboi
Separated from her detained mother after moving from Haiti to America, Fabiola struggles to navigate the home of her loud cousins and a new school on Detroit's gritty west side, where a surprising romance and a dangerous proposition challenge her ideas about freedom.
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Little & Lion
by Brandy Colbert
Returning home to Los Angeles from her New England boarding school, Suzette considers staying home for good so that she can be near her friends, her crush, and her recently diagnosed bipolar brother, a situation that is complicated by her growing feelings for the girl her brother loves. By the award-winning author of Pointe.
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This is kind of an epic love story
by Kacen Callender
A teen film buff and aspiring screenwriter, jaded after seeing too many real-life relationships go sour, questions his beliefs about the impossibility of happy endings when his former best friend moves back to town. A first young-adult novel by the author of Hurricane Child. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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Jackpot : All Bet$ /Are Off
by Nic Stone
The best-selling author of Dear Martin presents the story of a romance between an overworked high school senior and a rich, popular classmate in the wake of an unclaimed winning lottery ticket.
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American road trip
by Patrick Flores-Scott
When his adored older brother returns from a tour in Iraq with devastating PTSD, a Mexican-American high school senior embarks on a road trip to visit loved ones and explore the illnesses, socioeconomic pressures and milestone anxieties that have challenged their family.
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Opposite of always
by Justin A. Reynolds
Falling hard for a popular and charismatic girl who suddenly passes away, a grieving Jack finds himself traveling back in time to when they first met, only to find his efforts to prevent her death triggering unanticipated consequences. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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The revolution of Birdie Randolph
by Brandy Colbert
Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.
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The state of Grace
by Rachael Lucas
A teen with Asperger's navigates family troubles, her first kiss with a crush and the challenges of pretending to be "normal" in a world where she does not understand the social rules of conduct.
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