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| Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda LoSet in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1954, where 17-year-old Lily Hu dreams of space travel, but finds a different kind of exhilaration at a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Even as she finds herself and falls for her new friend Kath, Lily faces strict parental expectations at home and racism outside of her Chinese American community. Packed with immersive historical details and heartfelt emotion, this own voices story offers a complex look at identity and belonging. |
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| The Project by Courtney SummersRecently orphaned, Bea Denham abandoned her sister Lo and joined The Unity Project, a charitable organization led by magnetic miracle-worker Lev Warren. Lo, scarred and suspicious, won't stop trying to expose The Unity Project as a cult -- not even if it means getting close to Lev, who challenges her understanding of reality. |
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Your Corner Dark
by Desmond Hall
A teen on the brink of winning the heart of his crush and accepting a scholarship that will help him escape poverty in Jamaica is instead forced to join his uncle’s gang to pay for medical expenses in the aftermath of his father’s shooting.
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| The Gilded Ones by Namina FornaIn the kingdom of Otera, intuitive 16-year-old Deka discovers that her blood runs gold, a sign of impurity that marks her as one of the alaki, near-immortal women warriors who must battle the fearsome deathshrieks and defend the society that shuns them. |
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Chlorine Sky
by Mahogany L. Browne
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
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| The Speed of Falling Objects by Nancy Richardson FischerAnxious Danny Warren, is pushing her limits by joining her estranged father as he films an episode of his reality TV survival show with young Hollywood heartthrob Gus Price. Instead of mere entertainment, survival becomes a necessity when the show's plane crashes in the Peruvian rainforest, forcing Danny to face her fears if she wants to make it out alive. |
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| Life in a Fishbowl by Len VlahosThe bad news just keeps coming for 15-year-old Jackie: not only does her dad have a terminal brain tumour, he's also agreed to have his last days filmed for reality TV. Told from multiple points of view, including those of rebellious Jackie, her family members, the scheming reality show producer, and even the tumour itself. Read it for humour and humanity, all wrapped up in biting satire and can't-look-away tragedy. |
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#MurderFunding
by Gretchen McNeil
A 17-year-old girl lands on a big-hit reality show, “Who Wants to Be a Painiac?” in the aftermath of her mother’s death and learns horrifying truths about her mother’s relationship with one of Alcatraz 2.0’s most popular serial killers.
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Something Real
by Heather Demetrios
Growing up famous as one of 12 children featured on a cancelled reality television show, 17-year-old "Bonnie™" finds her hopes for a normal life shattered by the show's revival, which threatens her relationships and compels her to commit a drastic act.
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Reality Boy
by A. S. King
Haunted by his past as a child reality television celebrity, teen Gerald Faust struggles with violent anger that has relegated him to a very lonely world and the special education program at school, where he starts to feel dangerously close to snapping--until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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