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• America Redux

  Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History

  Aberg-Riger, Ariel,

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  Filled with full-color mixed media artwork, this nontraditional history book tells stories about America that you probably haven’t heard before. Instead of a linear timeline, the author uses visual storytelling to point out the causes and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of Oduma

  Utomi, Moses Ose,

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  Just when Dirt thought she had retired from Bowing to train younger members of her Mud Fam to fight, their best Bower, her best friend Webba, gets injured. Now Dirt must compete in the Good Bow tournament against Carre Carre, the top Bower…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Medusa

  Cole, Olivia A.,

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  After she’s sexually assaulted by her school’s most beloved teacher, Alicia quits the track team, ends up in detention almost every day and engages in a lot of self-destructive behavior with guys that are way too old for her. She finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be

  a Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

  Gibney, Shannon,

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  In this unique mix of memoir and speculative fiction, the author tells her story of getting adopted by white parents in Michigan and struggling to fit in as a biracial girl in a mostly white community. She also imagines living with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl

  Shrum, Brianna R.,

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  In this laugh-out-loud romance, autistic and perfectionist Margo realizes that OMG, she’s really gay after kissing a pretty girl at a party. When her classmate Abby, who’s bi, asks Margo to tutor her in AP History so she doesn’t lose her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monstrous

  a Transracial Adoption Story

  Myer, Sarah,

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  After her German American parents adopt her from Korea, Sara grows up in Maryland and hates school because her classmates bully her relentlessly about her race. To cope with her anger, Sarah constantly draws pictures and becomes obsessed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Only This Beautiful Moment

  Nazemian, Abdi,

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  Told from the perspectives of men in three different generations of an Iranian-American family, this moving story starts in 2019 with out-and-proud gay teen Moud going to visit his dying grandfather in Tehran. Later we learn more about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

  Muniz, Deya,

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  In this adorable graphic novel, Lady Camembert’s father wants her to marry a guy so she can inherit his fortune after he dies, but she’s made it clear that she’s not into guys at all. So her dad suggests that she disguise herself as Count…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Star Splitter

  Kirby, Matthew J., 1976-

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  If you’ve ever thought that you wanted to clone yourself, this intense space opera might make you reconsider. In 2199, Jess Mathers leaves Earth to meet her scientist parents on a planet fourteen lights years away called Carver 1061c after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where You See Yourself

  Forrest, Claire (Young adult author),

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  Effie, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, sees herself studying Mass Media and Society at Prospect University in Brooklyn next year. For now, she’s stuck in her senior year at a high school in Minneapolis that barely…Read moreRead more of this annotation