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YA Fiction

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Posted on February 1, 2021

Sia (Artemesia) Martinez’s mother was deported to Mexico three years ago and disappeared while trying to make the desert crossing back to the United States; she’s now presumed dead.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

Legendborn

Posted on January 19, 2021

African American Bree, 16, grief stricken since her mother’s death in a car accident, is in the Early College program at UNC-Chapel Hill, her mom’s alma mater.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

We Are Not Free

Posted on January 11, 2021

The voices of 14 teenagers and young adults, all friends and acquaintances from San Francisco’s Japantown, narrate this story of Japanese and Japanese American imprisonment during World War II.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

You Should See Me in a Crown

Posted on December 21, 2020

Running for prom queen is way outside high school senior Liz Lighty’s comfort zone, but she’s motivated by the $10,000 scholarship for the winner, since she didn’t get the music scholarship she was counting on for college.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

Flamer

Posted on November 30, 2020

Aiden Navarro (Filipino/white) is nervous about transferring from Catholic to public school in fall when he starts high school. For now, he’s happy to be at Boy Scout camp.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, Graphic Novel, YA Fiction

Elatsoe

Posted on November 2, 2020

Following news that her older cousin Trevor has died, Ellie, a contemporary Lipan Apache teen in Texas, is visited by Trevor in a dream in which he tells her he was murdered.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

Cemetery Boys

Posted on October 26, 2020

Cuban/Mexican American Yadriel’s family are brujx. Women are healers, and men make sure spirits move to the land of the dead before turning evil.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard

Posted on October 5, 2020

Echo and her younger brothers are growing up in a family with limited economic resources and parents who find respite from their struggles with drugs and alcohol.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

Look

Posted on July 20, 2020

High school senior Lulu regularly uploads photos and video to a platform called Flash (think Snapchat).

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction

The Henna Wars

Posted on June 22, 2020

Nishat is thrilled to see new student Flávia at her Catholic girls’ school in Dublin.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2020 Books, YA Fiction
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