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Our Own Voices: Diverse Teen Reads
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
by Ellen Oh
Best-selling and award-winning authors including Melissa de la Cruz, Renée Ahdieh and Julie Kagawa reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in 15 short stories that span multiple genres and explore classic cultural themes, from love and freedom to sacrifice and duty.
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Opposite of always
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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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Hearts Unbroken
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Breaking up with her first real boyfriend when he makes racist remarks about her Native American heritage, high school senior Louise Wolfe teams up with a fellow school newspaper editor to cover a multicultural casting of the school play and the racial hostilities it has exposed.
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Not So Pure and Simple
by L. R. Giles
A first contemporary young adult novel by the two-time Edgar Award finalist and author of Fake ID finds a young man’s efforts to win the heart of a longtime crush complicated by their church’s Purity Pledge.
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The Voice in My Head
by Dana Davis
When a mysterious voice claiming to be God instructs her to bring her terminally ill twin to a remote location in the Arizona desert, Indigo, fearing she is losing her mind, organizes a trip with her dysfunctional family that reveals shocking truths about those closest to her.
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Who Put This Song On?
by Morgan Parker
17-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored.
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Almost American Girl
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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My Story Starts Here : Voices of Young Offenders
by Deborah Ellis
A relatable collection of stories by teens representing a diverse assortment of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, orientations and ethnicities describes the harrowing factors that shaped their lives and how they found support through counselors, compassionate officers or family heritage.
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Fresh Ink
by Lamar Giles
Offers a diverse collection of YA authors writing stories about such topics as gentrification, acceptance, coming out, and poverty.
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Calling My Name
by Liara Tamani
Coming of age in Houston, an African-American teen navigates her conservative family's strict rules about school, church and dating while dreaming of stepping out of her male sibling's shadow to pursue a college education and a more meaningful spiritual life.
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On the Edge of Gone
by Corinne Duyvis
Assigned to a temporary shelter as part of a planet-wide effort to survive an imminent comet strike, Denise, a girl with autism, worries about her sister's disappearance and her mother's worsening drug addiction before she is invited to join a ship of strictly useful people whose goal is to colonize a new planet.
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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
by Wade Hudson
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art, poetry, and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice and comfort to young activists
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