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• Monstrous

  Lewis, Jessica, 1994-

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  When seventeen-year-old Latavia is presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient beast, she is determined to do whatever it takes to survive--even if that includes making a deal with the monster and endangering her crush and family.

• Not About a Boy

  Hollis, Myah,

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  Placed with a new foster family among Manhattan's elite--her last chance at adoption before she ages out of the system--17-year-old Mel must navigate through grief and depression as the anniversary of the worst day of her life approaches, before she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Requires Chocolate

  a Love in Translation Novel

  Stringfield, Ravynn K.,

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  Ready to have an epic semester abroad in Paris, theater nerd Whitney Curry anticipates a grand adventure but instead struggles with schoolwork, homesickness and mastering the French language until her cute tutor teaches her lessons about the real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prince of the Palisades

  Winters, Julian,

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  After a public break-up goes viral, seventeen-year-old Prince Jadon of Îles de la Rêveri stays in America to clean up his image and finds an unexpected romance as he navigates redemption in the eyes of his country and family.

• The Color of a Lie

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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  Two worlds. Two different versions of himself. Calvin knows how to pass for white. He's done it plenty of times. For his friends in Chicago, when they wanted food but weren't allowed in a restaurant. For work, when he and his dad traveled for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With Love, Miss Americanah

  Igharo, Jane,

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  After the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Enore Adesuwa moves with her family from Nigeria to America, where she intends to keep a low profile her senior year, but with the help from her sister, new friends, and crush, Enore finds her voice…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sleep Like Death

  Bayron, Kalynn,

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  Sixteen-year-old Eve, gifted with rare magical abilities, believes it her purpose to defeat an evil Knight, but not everything is as it seems and Eve's mother, the Queen, knows more about the knight than she is telling her daughter.

• Blood at the Root

  Williams, LaDarrion,

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  Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• King of Dead Things

  Holness, Nevin,

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• How Do I Draw These Memories?

  Joshua, Jonell,

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  Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey -- living in grandparents' homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, needed support to raise her and her brothers. Together the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Louder Than Words

  Woodfolk, Ashley,

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  When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, she sees it as a chance to start over and get away from what happened at her old school—but soon an anonymous podcast begins revealing humiliating secrets about the other students, and threatening to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something Kindred

  Burch, Ciera,

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  Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All These Sunken Souls

  a Black Horror Anthology

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  We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wander in the Dark

  Emill, Jumata,

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  Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.

• Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song

  Paramore, Austin

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  What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Melancholy of Summer

  Onomé, Louisa,

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  After seventeen-year-old Summer's parents go on the run, she is placed in the care of Olu, a cousin she barely knows, but with Olu and friends' efforts, stoic Summer eventually learns to open up.

• Sing Me to Sleep

  Burton, Gabi,

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  Saoirse Sorkova, a murderous siren whose very existence is illegal, is forced to work with the prince she hates to hunt a deadly killer—herself.

• Invisible Son

  Johnson, Kim,

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  After spending two months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.

• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

  Shea, Jamison,

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  Black teenage ballerina Laure Mesny makes a deal with an ancient evil to fulfill her heart's desire in this sharp, gruesome debut.

• The King Is Dead

  Dean, Benjamin (Children's author),

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  As the newly crowned first Black king of England, seventeen-year-old James faces intense media scrutiny and a blackmailer intent on disclosing his deepest secrets, including his sexuality and hidden relationship.