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All We Have Is Now by Lisa SchroederFacing the end of her life as one of the people remaining on an Earth that has been doomed by a catastrophic meteor strike, Emerson, a street kid who has survived by her wits along with her best friend, Vince, is offered a remarkable last day when a stranger gives them all of his money.
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The Body in the Woods by April HenryWhile helping the Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue seek a missing autistic man, teens Alexis, Nick, and Ruby instead find a body and join forces to find the girl's murderer, forming an unlikely friendship in the process.
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Children of the River by Linda CrewHaving fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib KhorramA Persian-American youth who prefers pop culture to the traditions of his mixed family struggles with clinical depression and the misunderstandings of older relatives while bonding with a boy who helps him embrace his Iranian heritage.
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Deadfall by Stephen Wallenfels Twin brothers Cory and Ty Bic, seventeen, search for an escape from criminals in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. When they encounter a dying deer in the middle of a remote mountain road with fresh tire tracks swerving down into a ravine, twin brothers Ty and Cory Bic know they have to help. Reaching the wrecked car, the vehicle appears empty, with signs that the driver escaped. They hear a sound coming from the trunk, and discover something that puts them in the crosshairs of something darker and more sinister than their wildest nightmares.
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Don't Stop Now by Julie HalpernLil and Josh leave Illinois for Oregon seeking Lil's friend Penny, who faked her own kidnapping to escape problems at home and an abusive boyfriend, but Lil also wants to find out if she and Josh are meant to be more than friends.
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Forgive Me If I've Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-WatersAt high school beginning in 1989, shy, intelligent Triinu comes to realize that she is a lesbian--and in love--just as her home state of Oregon is debating Measure 9, which would allow discrimination against gay people.
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A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845 by Linda CrewComing of age on the Oregon Trail, Lovisa King finds the strength to help her family survive death, sickness, and the "Terrible Trail" on their journey to the Oregon Territory.
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Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraJuliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color.
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The Nowhere Girls by Amy Lynn ReedThree misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them.
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Out of Salem by Hal SchrieveGenderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.
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Piecing Me Together by Renée WatsonTired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
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Save Me by Jenny ElliottWitches, stalkers, curses and a forbidden soul mate—Cara's so far over her head that even her guardian angel might have trouble saving her in this thrilling, romantic addition to the first Swoon Reads list!
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Sleeping In My Jeans by Connie King LeonardHomeless and alone on the streets, sixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins and her six-year-old sister, Meg, race to discover the fate of their missing mother.
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Spin the Sky by Jill MacKenzieMagnolia Woodson and her sister are outcasts in their small Oregon town, so when she has a chance to audition for a televised dance competition she thinks the prize money may be what she needs to move her family elsewhere.
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The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat WintersIn rural 1920s Oregon, a sixteen-year-old biracial girl searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah OcklerAfter a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
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This Is the Part Where You :augh by Peter Brown HoffmeisterA teen growing up in an Oregon trailer park plans a summer of basketball, writing, canoeing, spotting girls, looking for his homeless mom and trying to stay out of the kind of trouble that previously landed him in juvenile detention.
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This Side of Home by Renée WatsonTwins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.
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Tiger's Curse by Colleen HouckWhen Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
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Under a Painted Sky by Stacey LeeIn 1845 Missouri, Sammy, a Chinese girl, and Annamae, a runaway slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California, facing countless dangers together and forging an unforgettable bond of friendship.
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What Light by Jay AsherDividing her life between her family's Oregon Christmas tree farm and the California tree lot where they spend the holiday seasons, Sierra falls for a boy who lives under the shadow of a terrible mistake, a relationship that is met with disapproval and suspicion.
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The Wicked Deep by Shea ErnshawThree sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
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Dead Weight: Murder at Camp Bloom by Terry BlasA group of teens at Camp Blood find themselves in a real-life murder mystery when they witness the murder of a beloved counselor.
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Misfit City Volume One by Kirsten SmithWilder feels stifled by her tiny hometown of Cannon Cove and is desperate to leave, until she discovers a centuries-old pirate treasure map, landing Wilder and her friends in more adventure than they ever dreamed of.
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