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| Be Dazzled by Ryan La SalaWhat it's about: Geeky perfectionist crafter Raffy has his sights set on winning this year's Controverse cosplay championship. Not only because it could offer a way into art school, but also because it might help him get over his ex-turned-competitor, Luca.
Reviewers say: "a sequin-filled romance that’s also a love letter to the craft and creativity of cosplay" (Publishers Weekly).
You might also like: Cecil Castelluci's Don't Cosplay with My Heart, another pop culture savvy story about relationships, fandom, and creation. |
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A complicated love story set in space by Shaun David HutchinsonSixteen-year-olds Noa, DJ, and Jenny awake on a spaceship, unaware of how they got there or what is coming, but soon Noa and DJ are falling in love.
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The girls I've been by Tess SharpeWhen seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
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Love is a revolution by Renée WatsonHarlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist.
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| Concrete Rose by Angie ThomasWhat it's about: As the son of one of Garden Heights' most notorious King Lords, Maverick Carter has a legacy to uphold. But when he's hit by fresh tragedy and unexpected fatherhood, Maverick has to decide what kind of man he wants to be.
Book buzz: Set in the 1990s, this prequel to the mega-popular The Hate U Give is bound to make a splash.
On the hold list? Try books by Coe Booth or Tupac Shakur (author Angie Thomas' inspiration) while you wait. |
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Sometimes You Have to Laugh
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| The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene GooStarring: troublemaker Clara Shin, who thinks everything's a joke.
What happens: Forced to spend the summer working in her dad's Korean Brazilian food truck alongside her overachieving nemesis, Rose, Clara finds unexpected friendship, as well as hesitant romance with a super-sincere guy named Hamlet. Maybe some things are worth taking seriously?
You might also like: Julie Murphy's Puddin', another funny, angsty, and ultimately upbeat story about bonding with a former enemy. |
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The astonishing adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl by Barry LygaA fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
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Me and Earl and the dying girl by Jesse AndrewsSeventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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| The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben PhilippeStarring: smart, sarcastic, hockey-loving Montreal transplant Norris Kaplan, who's sweating through eleventh grade in Austin, Texas, as the only Haitian French Canadian person in his class.
Read it for: Norris' fish-out-of-water observations and sitcom-based stereotypes about Americans (which might just make you question your own assumptions about the people around you).
Book buzz: This 1st book by Canadian author Ben Phillipe won the 2020 William C. Morris Award for a debut novel; if you like this one, don't miss Philippe's equally funny follow-up, Charming As a Verb. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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