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Book Review: Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
Publisher’s description From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking...
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Book Review: When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Publisher’s description To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water...
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#SVYALit Book Review: Wrecked by Maria Padian
Publisher’s description Everyone has heard a different version of what happened that night at MacCallum College. Haley was already in bed when her roommate, Jenny, arrived home shell-shocked from the...
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#SVYALit Book Review: Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Publisher’s description Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she’s a nerdy flat-chested nobody...
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Book Review: Gap Life by John Coy
Publisher’s description Cray got into the same college his father attended and is expected to go. And to go pre-med. And to get started right away. His parents are paying the tuition. It should be an...
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Book Review: A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom
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Book Review: Safe is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students by Michael...
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Book Review: The Truth of Right Now by Kara Lee Corthron
Publisher’s description Two isolated teens struggle against their complicated lives to find a true connection in this heartwrenching debut novel about first love and the wreckage of growing up. Lily is...
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Book Review: Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist
Publisher’s description In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction. On his first day at...
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Book Review: Factory Girl by Josanne La Valley
Publisher’s description In order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and...
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Book Review: The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights...
Publisher’s description James Meredith’s 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man’s peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South’s most important demonstrations of the civil...
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Book Review: Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall
Publisher’s description Norah has agoraphobia and OCD. When groceries are left on the porch, she can’t step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He’s sweet and...
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Book Review: History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Publisher’s description From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go...
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Book Review: Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen
Publisher’s description Let’s get the feminist party started! Here We Are is a scrapbook-style teen guide to understanding what it means to be a twenty-first-century feminist. It’s packed with...
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Book Review: The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
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Book Review: Racial Profiling: Everyday Inequality by Alison Marie Behnke
Publisher’s description In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day. Both individuals and institutions—such as law enforcement agencies, government bodies, and...
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Book Review: Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
Publisher’s description Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it’s mostly about sex. No, it isn’t that kind of theory. Aki already knows she’s bisexual—even if, until now, it’s mostly been in...
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Book Review: The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu
Publisher’s description The girls of Devonairre Street have always been told they’re cursed. Any boy they love is certain to die too soon. But this is Brooklyn in 2008, and the curse is less a terror...
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Book Review: At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson
Publisher’s description From the author of We Are the Ants and The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes the heartbreaking story of a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as things he...
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Book Review: Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon
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