#WeReadDiverseBooks Teen Book Club
Fresh ink
by Lamar Giles

Edited by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Fake ID and featuring contributions by some of today's most recognizable diverse authors, a boundary-breaking anthology includes short stories, a graphic novel and a one-act play on such topics as gentrification, acceptance, poverty and coming out.
Dreamland burning
by Jennifer Latham

A dual-narrated tale by the author of Scarlett Undercover explores how race relations have changed in the past century through the story of 17-year-old Rowan, who investigates a century-old murder committed during the race riots of 1921 Tulsa. 
No place
by Todd Strasser

Rendered homeless by circumstances beyond his middle-class family's control, Dan, a popular school baseball star, is forced to move to Tent City, where he becomes involved in the efforts of people fighting for better conditions only to be targeted by an adversary who wants to destroy the impoverished region. By the award-winning author of Can't Get There From Here.
Paint me like I am : teen poems
by Nikki Giovanni

The diverse voices of teens from San Francisco, Washington, DC, and the Bronx are brought together in a collection of poems by teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps. 
Shadowshaper
by Daniel José Older

When her summer plans are interrupted by creepy supernatural phenomena, Sierra and her artist friend uncover the work of a magic-wielding killer who believes Sierra's family is hiding a powerful secret. A first young adult novel. 
Americanized : Rebel Without a Green Card
by Sara Saedi

Learning as a teenager that her Iranian family is undocumented, 13-year-old, straight-A student Sara Saedi juggles the challenges of trying to obtain a green card with the stressful realities of being an everyday American teen. 
They both die at the end
by Adam Silvera

Receiving word from Death-Cast that they are about to die, Mateo and Rufus meet for the first time via an End Day friendship app that facilitates their meeting and a final grand adventure that triggers unexpected changes.
Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi

The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. 
The marrow thieves
by Cherie Dimaline

In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
I will always write back : how one letter changed two lives
by Caitlin Alifirenka

Traces the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from an impoverished region of Zimbabwe, describing how 12-year-old Caitlin wrote to an unknown student for a class assignment and shared a life-changing six-year correspondence. 
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