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Books for Teens Summer 2019
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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, first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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The closest I've come
by Fred Aceves
Enduring abuse at the hands of his mother's racist boyfriend and his gritty peers, gentle-hearted Marcus dreams of escaping his disadvantaged neighborhood and is placed in an after-school program for promising at-risk teens, where new friendships inspire him to think about his future in different ways. A first novel. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Internment
by Samira Ahmed
Set in a futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence
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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. Simultaneous eBook.
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Little & Lion
by Brandy Colbert
Returning home to Los Angeles from boarding school, Suzette grapples with her bisexuality when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl
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Tyler Johnson was here
by Jay Coles
"When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom"
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Let's talk about love
by Claire Kann
A secretly asexual college student who desires a swoon-worthy romance without sex despairs of ever having a relationship when she is unable to convince any prospective partners that love and sex do not always go together, a resolve that is tested by her crush on a young man she is sure will not understand her. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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The love and lies of Rukhsana Ali
by Sabina Khan
Hoping to hide her authentic self from her conservative Muslim parents until she can depart for college, 17-year-old Rukhsana is caught kissing her girlfriend and whisked away to Bangladesh, where she fights an arranged marriage by consulting the wisdom she finds in her grandmother's diary.
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Darius the Great is not okay
by Adib Khorram
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life
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A very large expanse of sea
by Tahereh Mafi
Withdrawing into solitude after enduring a year of cruel prejudice in the aftermath of September 11, Muslim teen Shirin, an enthusiastic breakdancer, struggles to trust a boy who is the first friend who really seems to want to know her. 2, first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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We set the dark on fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival. A first novel. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Beasts made of night
by Tochi Onyebuchi
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city and must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life
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The astonishing color of after
by Emily X. R. Pan
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird
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Calling my name
by Liara Tamani
"Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose"
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On the come up
by Angie Thomas
A follow-up to the award-winning The Hate U Give finds an ambitious young rapper pouring her frustrations into a first song only to find herself at the center of a viral controversy that forces her to become the menace that her public reputation has portrayed her to be. 500,000 first printing. Simultaneous Large Print and eBook
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Americanized : rebel without a green card
by Sara Saedi
The author describes how, in San Jose, California, in the 1990s, her life as an Iranian American teen was upended by her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants
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How I resist : activism and hope for a new generation
by Maureen Johnson
Featuring contributions by such high-profile individuals as Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Javier Muñoz and Rosie O'Donnell as well as many of today's most popular young-adult writers, an all-star collection of essays about activism and hope reveals how today's young people can make a difference in the face of discrimination. Original. Simultaneous eBook.
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Landscape with invisible hand
by M. T Anderson
When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology, Adam's parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine, forcing Adam and his girlfriend Chloe to get creative
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Blood of a thousand stars
by Rhoda Belleza
A sequel to Empress of a Thousand Skies finds Rhee risking her crown to negotiate peace terms with villainous media star Nero, while framed assassin Aly plots revenge and Kara seeks technology that will erase her royal past. Simultaneous eBook.
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Honor among thieves
by Rachel Caine
Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by a race of sentient alien ships, to explore the outer reaches of the universe, and begins to feel at home for the first time aboard Nadim, her assigned alien ship
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Sound
by Alexandra Duncan
Ava's adopted sister takes a job as a research assistant on her first space voyage only to be recruited for a life-changing mission to rescue a boy from the space pirates who abducted him
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On the edge of gone
by Corinne Duyvis
In 2034 Amsterdam, the Netherlands, sixteen-year-old Denise, who is autistic, must seek her missing sister and help her unreliable mother safely aboard a spaceship before a comet hits the Earth
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The disasters
by M. K. England
Expelled from the elite Ellis Station Academy on his first day, hotshot pilot Nax Hall boards a ship back to Earth with three other ejected students only to be framed for a terrorist attack on the school. A first novel. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Cerulean
by Amy Ewing
Chosen as the sacrifice needed to break the tether that holds her city in the sky to the planet below, Sera feels betrayed, and as things don't go as planned, she finds herself not only fighting for her own life, but the lives of her people as well
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Defy the stars
by Claudia Gray
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis
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We are the ants
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving
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Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman
Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague
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Aurora rising
by Amie Kaufman
Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making. By the best-selling authors of the Illuminae Files. Simultaneous eBook.
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Starflight
by Melissa Landers
Desperate to relocate to an off-world place where nobody cares about her humble working status or her criminal past, Solara Brooks indentures herself to a rich bully who pretends to be her servant on a starship full of eccentric crewmates after he is framed for conspiracy on Earth. 50,000 first printing.
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T-minus : the race to the Moon
by Jim Ottaviani
The exciting story of two world superpowers racing to land a man on the moon is depicted through compelling comics artwork taking readers through the history of the race and turning the engineers and astronauts involved into vivid and real characters. Simultaneous.
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Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen
Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk
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Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson
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The woods
by James Tynion
"On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace. Countless light years away, far outside the bounds of the charted universe, 513 people find themselves in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Where are they? Why are they there? The answers will prove stranger than anyone could possibly imagine"
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