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Butterfly Yellow
by Thanhha Lai
"Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. In a split second, Linh is ripped from her arms—and Hằng is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hằng has made the brutal journey from Việt Nam and is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesn’t know how she will find the little brother who was taken from her until she meets LeeRoy, a city boy with big rodeo dreams, who decides to help her. Hằng is overjoyed when she reunites with Linh. But when she realizes he doesn’t remember her, their family, or Việt Nam, her heart is crushed. Though the distance between them feels greater than ever, Hằng has come so far that she will do anything to bridge the gap."
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by Maika Moulite
Told in epistolary style through letters, articles, emails and diary entries, a debut novel by sister authors follows the experiences of a Haitian American teen who is sent to work in a Haitian nonprofit, where she learns about local culture and her family heritage.
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All the bad apples
by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
"Deena starts receiving letters from her older sister Mandy, whom everyone thinks is dead, claiming that their family's blighted history is actually a curse and leading Deena on a cross-country hunt to find her sister and heal their family's rotten past--or rip it apart forever"
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Vow of thieves
by Mary Pearson
A sequel to Dance of Thieves finds an ominous warning overshadowing Kazi and Jase's return to Tor's Watch before a violent attack separates the pair, forcing them to pursue unexpected alliances. By the best-selling author of the Remnant Chronicles.
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The spaces between us
by Stacia Tolman
Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town
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Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates
The National Humanities Medal recipient shares real-life accounts from the periods spanning the end of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow segregation, in a scholarly tribute to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal.
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Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me
by Mariko Tamaki
Upset about her on-again, off-again relationship with her girlfriend Laura Dean, Freddy Riley depends on her friends, a local mystic, and a relationship columnist for help in dealing with her situation
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Sherwood
by Meagan Spooner
A gender-bending, romantic retelling of the Robin Hood legend finds Maid Marian stepping into a late Lord of Locksley's shoes to protect the town's oppressed citizens from the Sheriff of Nottingham, an effort complicated by an unwanted marriage proposal from Guy of Gisborne.
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Undying
by Amie Kaufman
Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship, Mia and Jules crash-land on Earth, where nobody heeds their warnings in the face of a global crisis involving a mysterious illness and Jules' disgraced father's alien research.
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