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The Art of Insanity by Christine WebbKeeping her Bipolar disorder a secret from her classmates, artist Natalie Cordova finds her plan to self-treat shattering the perfect facȧde she's been hiding under as she juggles all kinds of emotions and responsibilities.
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I was born for this by Alice OsemanThe Ark, a boy band, is the center of life for super-fan Fereshteh (A.K.A. Angel) Rahimi, transgender front man Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, and friend and bandmate Rowan, but their relationships become complicated when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together.
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I rise by Marie ArnoldWhen her activist mother, who founded the 'See Us' movement, is shot by police during a protest in their Harlem community, 14-year-old Ayo must decide if she has the strength to pick up where her mother left off.
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I miss you, I hate this by Sara SaediTold through a mix of prose, text messages and emails, this novel follows best friends and high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales as they discover new dreams, face insecurities and confront their greatest fears during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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The 9:09 project by Mark H. ParsonsSeventeen-year-old Jamison finds hope after the loss of his mother, and recognizes the role that family, friends, and even strangers can play in the healing process if you are open and willing to share your experience with others.
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Some kind of hate by Sarah LittmanFueled by rage, believing white kids like him are being denied opportunities because others are manipulating the system, Declan decides to fight back, but when things turn deadly, he must decide just how far he'll go and what he's willing to sacrifice.
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The Take-Over Friend by Carol DinesOn the second day of ninth grade, introverted Frances meets Sonja, a wildly funny newcomer from France, and the girls form a fast friendship. Frances adores Sonja’s worldliness, and Sonja adores Frances’s family, especially her older brother, Will. Frances and Sonja immediately declare themselves “The Poets” and rally their homeroom to enter the homecoming parade with a poetry-mobile built from Frances’s father’s old band bus. But respective family crises begin to escalate, and tensions come to a head when Sonja temporarily moves in with Frances's family—forcing each friend to decide how close is too close.
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We deserve monuments by Jas HammondsForced to move to Georgia to live with her hostile, terminally ill grandmother, 17-year-old Avery discovers that the racist history of this town is rooted in her family in ways she can't even imagine, jeopardizing her newfound romance with her next-door neighbor, Simone.
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What's coming to me by Francesca PadillaAfter the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.
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A year to the day by Robin BenwayA year after her sister Nina's death and still unable to imagine a world without her, Leo forms a friendship with Nina's boyfriend East based on their shared grief, only to discover he knows more about the accident than he is letting on.
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