2021 Reading Record Finisher Books Teen Books
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American Panda
by Gloria Chao
Struggling with guilt stemming from her parents' cultural expectations about her future as a proper wife and doctor, a 17-year-old Taiwanese-American college freshman hides the truth about her germ phobia and her crush on a Japanese classmate before reconnecting with her brother, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman.
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Among the Red Stars
by Gwen C. Katz
Determined to help the effort, female Russian air pilot Valka signs up to join an all-female aviation group, but as the war intensifies she has to decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she calls home.
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And Then There Were Four
by Nancy Werlin
When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all.
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Anna and the Apocalypse
by Katharine Turner
Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with a lot going on under the surface: she's struggling with her mom's death, total friend drama, and the fallout from wasting her time on a very attractive boy. She's looking forward to skipping town after graduation—but then a zombie apocalypse majorly disrupts the holiday season. It's going to be very hard to graduate high school without a brain. To save the day, Anna, her friends, and her frenemies will have to journey straight to the heart of one of the most dangerous places ever known, a place famous for its horror, terror, and pain...high school.
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The Arrival of Someday
by Jen Malone
When hard-charging, irrepressible 18-year-old Amelia Linehan experiences an unexpected flare-up of a rare liver disorder she was born with and her need for an organ transplant becomes dire, everything in her life is called into question, including her future hopes, dreams and the possibility of romance with a friend from the past who reappears in her life.
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The Athena Protocol
by Shamim Sarif
As a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world but are prohibited from using deadly force, Jessie Archer is forced to go rogue after breaking the rules and must fight not only a dangerous human trafficker she’s been hunting but also members of her former team who have been ordered to bring her down.
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Batman: Nightwalker
by Marie Lu
An entry in the popular series depicting DC superheroes as teens follows a reckless young Bruce Wayne who must team up with a brilliant killer and overcome the challenges of not having superpowers in order to defend against Nightwalker attackers who are targeting the elite of Gotham City.
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Blackout
by Robison E Wells
A mysterious virus that infects teens with impossible superpowers ensnares everyday high school students Jack and Aubrey in a complex web of deception, loyalty and danger involving trained terrorists Laura and Alex, with whom they confront an apocalyptic threat.
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Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
by Adaobi Nwaubani
Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival.
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Comics Will Break Your Heart
by Faith Erin Hicks
Frustrated when her grandfather, the co-creator of a smash-hit comic series, loses its rights to his co-creator and leaves their family struggling, college hopeful Miriam fights her complicated feelings for the grandson of the man she believes defrauded her loved ones.
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The Disasters
by M. K. England
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
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Dumplin'
by Julie Murphy
Questioning her plus-sized body for the first time when an athletic boy appears to return her affections, Willowdean enters her city's beauty pageant and uses her sassy styles and talents to compete against thinner contestants.
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Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K. Choi
A chance encounter leads Penny and Sam to become each other's emergency contacts and they soon find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
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Emmy & Oliver
by Robin Benway
Since her best friend Oliver was kidnapped ten years ago, Emmy's parents have smothered her with their relentless worry, and when Oliver suddenly reappears in his hometown, he and Emmy struggle to face the messy, confusing consequences of the crime.
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Fresh Ink: An Anthology
by Lamar Giles
Offers a diverse collection of YA authors writing stories about such topics as gentrification, acceptance, coming out, and poverty.
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From Twinkle, with Love
by Sandhya Menon
Leaping at a fellow movie geek's offer to direct a submission for an upcoming summer film festival, Twinkle Mehra begins receiving anonymous romantic emails and finds herself torn between her longtime crush and her film-buff new friend.
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A Girl Like That
by Tanaz Bhathena
Labeled as a troublemaker in spite of her bright mind, 16-year-old Zarin, a teen growing up in Saudi Arabia, engages in a forbidden relationship with a Parsi boy before a tragic accident brings everything others believed about the girl into question.
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The Hazel Wood
by Melissa Albert
Having spent most of her life on the run from uncanny bad luck, 17-year-old Alice ventures into a mysterious supernatural world to save her mother, who has been stolen away by a figure claiming to be a character from Alice's late grandmother's cult-classic book of dark fairy tales.
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How It Feels to Float
by Helena Fox
A deeply hopeful novel about love, loss and living with intergenerational mental illness follows the experiences of a teen who manages to just get by while hiding her father's deteriorating condition and exploring first romantic encounters, before an unavoidable event threatens to unravel her world.
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Illegal
by Bettina Restrepo
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
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Little & Lion
by Brandy Colbert
Returning home to Los Angeles from boarding school, Suzette grapples with her bisexuality when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl
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Once and for All
by Sarah Dessen
Cynical about happy endings, Louna, the daughter of a wedding planner, initially holds Ambrose at arm's length, but Ambrose has finally found someone to save him from his serial dating ways, and he's not about to be discouraged.
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Outrun the Moon
by Stacey Lee
Gaining admittance into an elite school usually limited to white girls, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to escape from her disadvantaged life through education, endures harsh conditions in a park encampment when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys her home and school.
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The Revenge of Magic
by James Riley
Losing his father during a giant creature attack on Washington, D.C., young Fort becomes a student at a secret government school where he studies the magic in a mysterious collection of books to protect the world from dangerous forces.
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Somewhere Only We Know
by Maurene Goo
A rising K-pop star on the eve of her breakout television performance and a tabloid reporter on assignment meet by chance at a fancy hotel during a search for a good hamburger in ways that transform both of their careers.
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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
by David Arnold
Noah Oakman, a sixteen-year-old history enthusiast, suddenly gains the ability to see changes in others, from mysterious scars and odd behaviors to rewritten histories and the unconscious ways that friends hurt one another.
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This Might Hurt a Bit
by Doogie Horner
Struggling through grief on the one-year anniversary of his sister's death, talented runner Kirby finds himself navigating hostile classmates, reckless friends and a cow-painting prank.
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When Dimple Met Rishi
by Sandhya Menon
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.
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Champion: The Graphic Novel
by Leigh Dragoon
June and Day's hopes for peace are shattered by a plague outbreak that renews warfare throughout the panicked Colonies, a situation that forces the Republic to consider a means of defense that threatens everything Day has worked for.
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Piper
by Jay Asher
An evocative graphic novel adaptation of the classic Pied Piper legend follows the experiences of a shunned girl who believes her dream of a fairy-tale love has come true when she falls for a mysterious man with a dark past.
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Dear Heartbreak: YA Authors on the Dark Side of Love
by Heather Demetrios
A teen anthology in the tradition of Dear Sugar features responses from such leading young-adult authors as Nina LaCour, Libba Bray and A. S. King to letters from real teens from all walks of life who have asked for advice about the darker side of love, including dating violence, cheating and breakups.
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How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation
by Maureen Johnson
Featuring contributions by such high-profile individuals as Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Javier Muñoz and Rosie O'Donnell as well as many of today's most popular young-adult writers, an all-star collection of essays about activism and hope reveals how today's young people can make a difference in the face of discrimination.
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Overwatch Hacks: The Unofficial Gamer's Guide
by Jason Rich
Shares advice and information on how to master the game, including each of the twenty-seven core heroes' unique strengths, weaknesses, abilities, and ultimate abilities.
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