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Book Review: Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America edited...
Publisher’s description Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential...
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Book Review: Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped...
Publisher’s description Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly...
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Book Review: The Whispers by Greg Howard
Publisher’s description A middle grade debut that’s a heartrending coming-of-age tale, perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Counting By 7s. Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers,...
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Book Review: Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Publisher’s description From the author of You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone comes a stunning contemporary novel that examines the complicated aftermath of a kidney transplant between best friends. Aspiring...
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Book Review: LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...
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Book Review: Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Publisher’s description Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson teams up with poet Ellen Hagan in this YA feminist anthem about raising your voice. Jasmine and Chelsea...
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Post-It Note Reviews: Books for younger readers featuring a biracial...
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Book Review: The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David...
Publisher’s description Six Feet Under meets Pushing Daisies in this quirky, heartfelt story about two teens who are granted extra time to resolve what was left unfinished after one of them suddenly...
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Post-it Note Reviews of YA Books: Undocumented teen voices, the supernatural,...
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Book Review: The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason
Publisher’s description The Art of Losing is a compelling debut that explores issues of addiction, sisterhood, and loss. On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston’s life changes forever. At a...
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Book Review: We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Publisher’s description In this daring and romantic fantasy debut perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and Latinx authors Zoraida Córdova and Anna-Marie McLemore, society wife-in-training Dani has a...
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Book Review: Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
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Book Review: The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans
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Book Review: Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Publisher’s description Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving....
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Book Review: Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne
Publisher’s description Music has always been Ruby’s first love. But has it ever loved her back? Slip behind the scenes of the classical music world one hot, anything-can-happen, New York City summer....
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Post-It Note Reviews: Books for younger readers featuring a psychic, an alien...
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Book Review: Wreck by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Publisher’s description Sometimes loss has its own timetable. Set on the shores of Lake Superior, Wreck follows high school junior Tobin Oliver as she navigates her father’s diagnosis of ALS (Lou...
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Post-it Note Reviews of YA Books: Rappers, movie lovers, musicians,...
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Book Review: Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
Publisher’s description After an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic...
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