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May 2021 Teen Reading Recommendations
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Love, hate & other filters
by Samira Ahmed
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever
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A Line in the Dark
by Malinda Lo
Mystery. Jess is painfully in love with her best friend Angie, but Angie is dating Margot, a wealthy girl from a ritzy private school. Their jealous love triangle threatens to destroy both relationships – especially after Margot's best friend is found dead. Secrets and suspicion swirl around the diverse characters in this intricately plotted tale of psychological suspense.
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Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
by Julie C. Dao
This novel is a reimagining of Snow White's evil queen, set in an East Asian-inspired fantasy empire. Readers who are drawn to ambitious, complex villains will relish the journey of Xifeng, an abuse survivor who uses violent magic and cruel schemes to claw her way towards power. This richly detailed volume kicks of the Rise of the Empress duology, which concludes in Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix.
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
by Wai Chim
With school, working at the family restaurant, caring for her younger siblings, managing her mentally ill mother, and a new boyfriend, 16-year-old Anna Chiu is just barely holding it together. Then her mom's condition changes, and Anna's careful balancing act begins to fall apart. Read it for an unflinching coming-of-age story with an authentic Chinese Australian main character.
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Almost American Girl
by Robin Ha
Chuna is 14 when her single mom decides to marry a Korean American man, moving their little family from Seoul to Alabama. Feeling adrift in a new country, a new language, and an unwelcoming new school and stepfamily, Chuna finds an anchor in drawing comics. This illustrated memoir offers an honest, unsentimental look at a mother-daughter relationship, and at how one immigrant teen finds herself through art.
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Djinn patrol on the purple line : a novel
by Deepa Anappara
In an award-winning debut based on true events, a 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home.
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Super Fake Love Song
by David Yoon
Even though he prefers D&D and cosplay to loud music, 17-year-old Sunny Dae doesn't correct Cirrus Soh, the impossibly cool new girl, when she mistakenly thinks he's in a rock band. Getting closer to Cirrus leads Sunny to keep up the deception, and as he forms a makeshift band and pretends to be confident, he almost believes it himself...until his scheme falls apart.
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When Dimple Met Rishi
by Sandhya Menon
Romance. What's a modern feminist to do when she accidentally falls for the guy her parents have chosen as her future husband? That's the question facing high school grad Dimple Shah when she meets Rishi Patel at a con for app developers. They get off to a rocky start, and the sparks nearly fizzle out before they begin to fly. Though they're both smart, geeky, first-generation Indian Americans, forward-thinking Dimple is openly ambitious while the more traditional Rishi hides his true interests, leading to an odd-couple relationship that's as authentic and hysterically funny as you'd expect.
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Patron Saints of Nothing
by Randy Ribay
Filipino American Jay is shocked and grief-stricken by the murder of his Filipino cousin, Jun -- how could someone like Jun get mixed up in the vigilante violence of President Duterte’s war on drugs? Fed up with his secretive family, Jay travels from the U.S. to the Philippines in search of answers. A novel with gripping family drama and unflinching, own voices insights into Filipino politics and growing up bicultural.
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