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Fiction
Firekeeper's Daughter
2021
Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player puts her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
2021
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt 16-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
Tokyo Ever After
2021
Discovering in her senior year of high school that the father she has never met is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izzy is introduced to the realities of being a princess while trying to understand conniving relatives, a hungry press, a handsome bodyguard and thousands of years of tradition.
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Blade of Secrets
2021
Spending her days tucked into her forge to escape society and the anxiety it triggers, 18-year-old Ziva uses her magical gifts to craft unique weapons before she is forced to go on the run to protect the world from an unexpectedly powerful sword she has created.
Lexile level
650
Me (Moth)
2021
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
We Can Be Heroes
2021
After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family.
I Must Betray You
2022
In a country governed by isolation, fear and a tyrannical dictator, 17-year-old Cristian is blackmailed into becoming an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
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The Girls I've Been
2021
When 17-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
Cemetery Boys
2020
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
Concrete Rose
2021
A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.
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Before the Ever After
2020
The son of an idolized pro-football star begins noticing the contrast between his father's angry, forgetful behavior and his superhero reputation before adjusting to a new reality involving difficult symptoms stemming from his father’s numerous head injuries.
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Graphic novel
The Girl from the Sea
2021
Morgan has a secret: the 15-year-old can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl.
Lexile level
290
Nonfiction
After the Rain
2021
741.5973 OKO
When Chioma answers a knock at her door, the Nigerian-American is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive.
Come Home, Indio
2020
A Native American cartoonist shares his journey from childhood, through struggles with alcoholism, to a spiritual awakening at Standing Rock.
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry
2021
TEEN 364.1523 YOO
An account of the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin shares insights into how a miscarriage of justice in the wake of a hate crime rallied the Asian-American community throughout a groundbreaking civil rights trial.
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I'm a youth services librarian who loves rainy days spent curled up with a good book. I enjoy reading all genres, but my favorites are historical fiction and fantasy. I also love reading fan fiction! When I am not reading, I can be found binging TV shows, going for nature walks and brewing lots and lots of coffee.
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