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Dierric R
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December 9, 2022

Fiction
Alexene Farol Follmuth
My Mechanical Romance
2022
Basically forced to join the robotics club due to her talent for engineering, Bel must work side-by-side with Mateo Luna, and soon the two realize they've built much more than a robot for the national championship.
Ann Fraistat
What We Harvest
2022
With a quicksilver blight poisoning the farms of Hollow's End, Wren turns to her ex, Derek, and together they delve into the town's history to find the source of this pestilence, only to expose a dark truth that could destroy them all.
Lexile level
680
Tiffany D. Jackson
The Weight of Blood
2022
While at Springville High's first integrated prom, Maddie, a constantly bullied biracial teenager, is tormented by her classmates until her secret is revealed-- one that will cost them their lives.
Adib Khorram
Kiss & Tell
2022
On boy band Kiss & Tell's first major tour, lead singer Hunter Drake grapples with a painful breakup with his first boyfriend, his first rebound and the stress of what it means to be queer in the public eye.
Ben Philippe
Charming as a Verb
2020
Hiding less-than-honest business practices behind his charming smile and Ivy League ambition, a popular Haitian American star debater is blackmailed by an intense classmate who wants to improve her image at school.
Rebecca Podos
From Dust, A Flame
2022
When Hannah develops impossible, temporary mutations that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made, she and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
Laila Sabreen
You Truly Assumed
2022
After a terrorist attack near her home ignites Islamophobia, Sabriya and two other girls publish an online journal that goes viral, but when hateful comments and threats are made, they must risk everything to make their voices heard.
Victoria Schwab
Gallant
2022
Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no past except for her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to Gallant, a ruinous manor, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
Emily J. Taylor
Hotel Magnifique
2022
While working at the legendary Hotel Magnifique, sisters Jani and Zosa discover a darkness under its glittering façade as they fall victim to the cruelty of the ruthless maître d’hôtel and must unravel the mystery of the hotel's magic to survive.
Xiran Jay Zhao
Iron Widow
2021
Offering herself up as a concubine-pilot to assassinate the man responsible for her sister’s death, 18-year-old Zetian discovers her true destiny as an Iron Widow and must use her strength to force her society to stop failing its women and girls.
Lexile level
830
Graphic novel
Huda Fahmy
Huda F Are You?
2021
Huda is starting high school in a new town and needs to figure out where she fits in. She tries on all kinds of identities and friends, but nothing fits quite right until she realizes she can get back to the basics.
Lexile level
560
Danie Stirling
Crumbs
2022
Ray, a young seer struggling with her powers, discovers first love and friendship in her town's magic bakery.
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Nonfiction
Laura Gao
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
2022
305.895 GAO
Seamlessly toggling between past and present, this funny graphic memoir follows a queer Chinese American's immigration to Texas where she just wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school and figure out why she is attracted to girls.
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Brandy Colbert
Black Birds in the Sky
2021
T 976.686 COL
On June 1, 1921, a white mob marched into Tulsa, Oklahoma's predominantly Black Greenwood District with firearms, gasoline and explosives. Within hours, they'd razed 35 square blocks, leaving hundreds dead. What exactly happened, and why are the events unknown to so many today?
Saraciea J. Fennell
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed
2021
T 810.8 WIL
Sparking dialogue and hope, 15 original stories by best-selling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices question the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora.
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