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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...
2) Hello girls
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Language
English
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Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station, both deciding whether to turn their families in for abuse and mistreatment. They realize they can't wait until graduation to start their new lives. They need out. Now. All they need is three grand, fast. And really, a stolen convertible to take them from Michigan to Las Vegas can't hurt.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When seventeen-year-old Cass lands the girlfriend of her dreams, she struggles to hide her secret online life where she role-plays fanfiction scenes with a group of internet strangers, and things get even more complicated when she winds up falling for her scene partner, Rowan.
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 1
Language
English
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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay likes herself best when she plays her father's old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness of missing him - and from her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. After placing third in a local competition, and with hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul's world and his way of digging...
7) Miss Meteor
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Language
English
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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
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There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But that’s not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isn’t about being perfect; it’s about sharing who you are with the world—and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands. So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Csilla has felt protected by the Duna river her entire life, and especially during the Holocaust of World War II, but that magic seems to have broken when Communists took control of Hungary. When her parents are killed by the secret police, Csilla's deep feelings of betrayal and disconnection cause her to plan her escape from her unrecognizable homeland. They are posthumously exonerated, however, sparking a series of protests that make her reconsider...
10) Heroine
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English
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"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
11) Little wrecks
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Aware of the secrets, indifference, and violence toward women that occur within their Long Island town, three girls begin fighting against the abuse and discrimination until an opportunity challenges their bonds and determination to leave.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Holly Liddell has been stuck with crimped hair since 1987 when she agreed to let her boyfriend, Elton, turn her into a vampire. But when he ditches her at a gas station a few decades into their eternity together, she realizes that being young forever actually means working graveyard shifts at Taco Bell, sleeping in seedy motels, and being supernaturally compelled to follow your ex from town to town, at least until Holly meets Elton's other exes, who...
13) The good girls
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Targeted as suspects in the shocking murder of a high school senior, three teens-including a notorious party girl, a head cheerleader and a would-be valedictorian-race to expose long-buried secrets and identify the real killer.
14) Hidden
Author
Series
House of Night. Original series volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the must-read 10th installment of the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling vampyre series, Darkness won't stay hidden for long. With nearly 12 million copies in print, rights sold in 38 countries to date, and relatable, addictive characters, this series is unstoppable.
15) If you're lucky
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Determined to clear the fog from her mind in order to uncover the truth about her brother's death, seventeen-year-old Georgia secretly stops taking the medication that keeps away the voices in her head.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Mary is having an existential crisis. She's a good student, she never gets in trouble, and she is searching for the meaning of life. She always thought she'd find it in a perfect score on the SATs. But by junior year, Mary isn't so sure anymore. The first time, it's an accident. She forgets to do a history assignment. She even crosses "history essay" off in her pristine planner. And then: Nothing happens. She doesn't burst into flames, the world...
17) The henna wars
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled-but...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Addison Sullivan has been in an accident. In its aftermath, she has memory lapses and starts talking to a boy who keeps disappearing. She's afraid she's going crazy, and the worried looks on her family's and friends' faces aren't helping. Addie takes drastic measures to fill in the blanks and visits the Overton Clinic. But there she unwittingly discovers it is not her first visit. And when she presses, she finds out that she had certain memories...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
For Fans of Heartstopper
Reese's YA Book Club
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
For Fans of Heartstopper
Reese's YA Book Club
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer and familial duties and faith when she navigates a whole new world of possibility, in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
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