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All the crooked saints
by Maggie Stiefvater
When Daniel Soria, the current saint of Bicho Raro, Colorado, violates the family's greatest taboo, Beatriz and Joaquin, along with the visitors, must drive off the darkness.
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Darius the Great is not okay
by Adib Khorram
A 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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Devils within
by S. F. Henson
Raised in a white supremacist compound where he was honored for his acts of violence before killing his own father, 14-year-old Nate is placed in the custody of his uncle and starts over with a new identity before forging an unexpected bond with a kind boy he was taught to hate.
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Dress codes for small towns
by Courtney C Stevens
Rebelling against the role others believe she should conform to, Billie McCaffrey struggles with her feelings for two of her friends.
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Dry
by Neal Shusterman
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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A heart in a body in the world
by Deb Caletti
The National Book Award finalist and author of Stay finds a traumatized teen fleeing to Washington, D.C., where she becomes a reluctant activist in her effort to escape the past, in a tale that touches on such themes as gun violence, rape culture and misdirected guilt.
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Heroine
by Mindy McGinnis
Determined to see her softball team through a historic tournament run despite severe injuries, Mickey Catalan is prescribed painkillers that initially help, before high pressure leads to an out-of-control addiction.
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Hey, kiddo
by Jarrett Krosoczka
Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
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Internment
by Samira Ahmed
Set in a futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.
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Obsessed : a memoir of my life with OCD
by Allison Britz
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, sharing insights into her painful but ultimately inspirational journey toward recovery.
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The nickel boys : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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Patron saints of nothing
by Randy Ribay
Setting aside his college ambitions when he learns that his cousin has been murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, a high school senior travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth, and the part he may have played in it.
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Price of duty
by Todd Strasser
"A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn't feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed"
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Slay
by Brittney Morris
Hiding her identity as the developer of an elite online role-playing game, a talented teen, one of the only black students in her school, is targeted with violent racism when an in-game dispute escalates into a player’s murder.
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They called us enemy
by George Takei
Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
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A very large expanse of sea
by Tahereh Mafi
A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
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We'll fly away : Library Edition
by Bryan Bliss
Alternating between a third-person account of senior year and letters from death row, a young man untangles a chain of devastating circumstances that led to his conviction, from changes in a lifelong best friendship and the pursuit of an athletic scholars.
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