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Global Reads, for teens Books that take place around the world
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The astonishing color of after
by Emily X. R. Pan
A teen grieving the loss of her mother travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time and search for her mother's spirit while uncovering tragic family secrets and struggling to reconcile the truth about how her mother's life really ended. .
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Darius the Great is not okay
by Adib Khorram
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life
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Want
by Cindy Pon
A tale set in a heavily polluted Taipei of the near future follows the efforts of a group of teens to save their city in the face of social divisions that enable the wealthy to secure long, protected lives while the poor suffer illness and early death.
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When morning comes
by Arushi Raina
Zanele is secretly plotting against the apartheid government, while her best friend Thabo has troubles of his own with a local gang, and Jack, from the wealthy white suburbs, falls in love with a girl from the black township of Soweto
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Akata witch
by Nnedi Okorafor
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer
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War girls
by Tochi Onyebuchi
A tale set in a Black Panther-inspired Nigeria follows the experiences of two sisters in a 22nd-century world devastated by war and climate change who fight against violence and political unrest to secure a safe and peaceful life together.
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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. By the author of After the Shot Drops.
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The weight of our sky
by Hanna Alkaf
A music-loving teen with OCD works desperately to find her way back to her mother during the 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali
by Sabina Khan
Hoping to hide her authentic self from her conservative Muslim parents until she can depart for college, 17-year-old Rukhsana is caught kissing her girlfriend and whisked away to Bangladesh, where she fights an arranged marriage by consulting the wisdom she finds in her grandmother's diary.
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Love from A to Z
by S. K. Ali
Suspended for standing up against a teacher's hate speech, a Muslim teen visits her aunt in Qatar, where she bonds with a motherless young man who is attempting to hide his multiple sclerosis diagnosis from his grieving father. By the author of Saints and Misfits.
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Wicked fox
by Kat Cho
Preying on evil men in modern Seoul, a nine-tailed fox devourer of human energy, disguised as a beautiful girl, violates the rules to rescue a human boy at the risk of her soul.
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The summer prince
by Alaya Dawn Johnson
In a Brazil of the distant future, June Costa falls in love with Enki, a fellow artist and rebel against the strict limits of the government, knowing that, like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die
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Learning to breathe
by Janice Lynn Mather
Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau
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The head of the saint
by Socorro Acioli
A U.S. debut from an award-winning Brazilian author traces the experiences of orphaned 14-year-old Samuel, who lives in an unfinished monument where hears beautiful singing and mischievously answers the private prayers and wishes of his fellow villagers.
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Hope is our only wing
by Rutendo Tavengerwei
Overcome with grief by her father’s accidental death, 15-year-old Shamiso is sent away to boarding school in Zimbabwe, where a classmate who is battling cancer helps her confront her loss.
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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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Where we go from here
by Lucas Rocha
A young gay Brazilian who has tested negative for HIV after a long-term relationship reluctantly introduces his HIV-positive ex to a new friend who has been recently diagnosed, before the three find their lives intertwined by the disease’s ongoing realities.
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Forward Me Back to You
by Mitali Perkins
Meeting during a summer service trip in Kolkata while working with survivors of human trafficking, a young jujitsu champion with a haunted past and an adopted boy who faces learning about his Indian heritage with trepidation discover the complicated entanglements of justice and healing.
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Clap when you land
by Elizabeth Acevedo
An evocative novel in verse by the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.
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