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• Amari and the Night Brothers

  Alston, B. B.

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  Amari has been struggling since her older brother went missing. When she receives an invitation to the summer camp he attended, she is shocked to discover he actually worked at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and that she also possesses…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iveliz Explains It All

  Arango, Andrea Beatriz

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  Iveliz has enough going on dealing with the loss of her father and her beloved abuela’s worsening Alzheimer’s. She has to put her mental health first, even when family members don’t approve.

• The Blackbird Girls

  Blankman, Anne

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  Valentina and Oksana have always been enemies, since Oksana’s father told her not to associate with Valentina’s Jewish family. Then the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl where both fathers work explodes, and the girls are forced to rely on each…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Quinces

  Fajardo, Kat, 1991-

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  Suyapa wants to spend her summer hanging with friends and reading manga, but a family trip home to Honduras throws a wrench in her plans. Her family wants her to have a traditional quinceañera, but Sue has ideas of her own. GN

• Starfish

  Fipps, Lisa

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  Ellie has always lived by her self-imposed "Fat Girl Rules," made necessary by the cruelty of her classmates, family, and the world around her. Can she learn to break free of these rules and feel joy in her body?

• Freestyle

  Galligan, Gale

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  Cory's faltering grades get him grounded from dance group practice, but his tutor Sunna proves to be just as good at yo-yoing as academics. GN

• Invisible

  Gonzalez, Christina Diaz, 1969-

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  Five very different middle schoolers are assigned to complete their service hours in the school’s cafeteria by an administration who groups them together because they’re Latine. GN

• The Last Cuentista

  Higuera, Donna Barba

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  Earth is about to be destroyed by a comet, and Petra and her family are among the few who are sent to another planet to restart civilization. After decades of induced sleep, Petra discovers that everyone’s memories have been erased and she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Linked

  Korman, Gordon

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  Link, Michael, and Dana attend a school that seems perfectly ordinary until someone draws a swastika on a locker and everyone bonds to combat the unexplained anti-Semitism.

• African Town

  Inspired by the True Story of the Last American Slave Ship

  Latham, Irene

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  Alternating perspectives of enslaved people and enslavers chronicle the voyage of the Clotilda and the African people illegally brought to the United States in this powerful novel-in-verse, as they endure horrors and build community.

• Six Crimson Cranes

  Lim, Elizabeth

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  When Shiori’s stepmother discovers her use of forbidden magic, Shiori’s brothers are turned into cranes, and she is banished far from home, cursed never to speak their names, or they will die.

• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Nina and Oli are both fifteen, but the similarities end there. She's a Lipan Apache girl from Texas and he's a cottonmouth snake from the Reflecting World. What happens when their paths cross and they must work together to save their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Millionaires for the Month

  McAnulty, Stacy

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  After Felix and Benji “borrow” $20 from a billionaire’s lost wallet, she challenges them to spend five million dollars in one month in order to win ten million dollars - but there is a catch.

• Everything Sad Is Untrue

  (a True Story)

  Nayeri, Daniel

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  Khousrou, also known as Daniel, struggles to tell his middle school classmates about his life: his childhood in Iran, his time in a refugee camp in Italy, and the idiosyncrasies of adjusting to life in Oklahoma.

• Like Home

  Onomé, Louisa

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  Ginger East has always been home for Nelo, despite its unsafe reputation. When her best friend’s family business is vandalized and gentrifying stores start moving in, Nelo must decide how to stand up for her neighborhood.

• Button Pusher

  Page, Tyler, 1976-

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  Tyler can’t answer the question all the grownups ask him: Why do you do that? His brain makes him do things like hang out of a window and disrupt class. When he gets diagnosed and treated for ADHD, things finally start making more sense. GN

• The Ivory Key

  Raman, Akshaya

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  In the Ashokan empire, magic is mined to maintain power and protect against enemies. When the quarries stop producing, four royal siblings with very different goals must come together for all of their sakes.

• Ain't Burned All the Bright

  Reynolds, Jason

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  A Black family faces the COVID-19 pandemic, racial violence, and the nightly news in this illustrated book for teens.

• The Golden Hour

  Smith, Niki

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  In the aftermath of an armed shooter at his school, Manuel learns to cope with PTSD and panic attacks through photography and friends. GN

• It Came From the Sky

  a Novel

  Sedoti, Chelsea

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  When a science experiment goes wrong, brothers Gideon and Ishmael cover it up with a simple lie that soon becomes a hoax they cannot control: did aliens crash into their cornfield?