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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Teens WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
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All-American Muslim girl
by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Sixteen-year-old Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager
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Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots
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A girl like that
by Tanaz Bhathena
Labeled as a troublemaker in spite of her bright mind, sixteen-year-old Zarin, a teen living in Saudi Arabia, engages in a forbidden relationship with a Parsi boy before a tragic accident brings everything others believed about her into question.
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Piecing me together
by Renée Watson
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, Jade would rather participate in the school's Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls
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The blackbird girls
by Anne Blankman
Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, neighbors Valentina and Oksana, who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences, uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person
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Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama
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Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible
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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster
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Furia
by Yamile Saied Méndez
Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego
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Betty before X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement
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Girls like us
by Randi Pink
In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant
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If I was your girl
by Meredith Russo
Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.
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Moxie : a novel
by Jennifer Mathieu
In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines
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Last night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath.
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Squad
by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
"Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets"
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Pulp
by Robin Talley
Duel narratives follow an eighteen-year-old closeted lesbian in 1955 keeping a secret romance and wanting to write her own stories and another young woman sixty-two years later studying 1950s lesbian pulp fiction for her senior project
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Beauty queens
by Libba Bray
When the 50 contestants of the Miss Teen Dream Pageant crash on a desert island, the young beauty queens struggle between survival efforts and denial while hoping for rescue and encountering a band of handsome pirates. By the Printz Award-winning author of Going Bovine. Reprint.
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The degenerates
by J. Albert Mann
In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics
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A heart in a body in the world
by Deb Caletti
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma
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Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by Candace Fleming
Presents the life of the famous American icon, describing her childhood, early determination to become a pilot, flying feats, and her attempt to fly around the world, which resulted in her mysterious disappearance
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Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world
by Pénélope Bagieu
Through characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, a celebrated graphic novelist profiles the lives of formidable female role models—some world famous, some little known—including Nellie Bly, Mae Jemison, Josephine Baker, Naziq al-Abid and many others, in an entertaining, comic-style biography that is sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies. Simultaneous.
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