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Adora and the Distance
By Marc BernardinIllustrated by Ariela Kristantina, colored by Bryan Valenza, lettered by Bernardo Brice | When Adora'a world is threatened and her people in danger, she does the only thing she can do: journey to the end of the world.
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And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
By Erica MartinAn unflinching account of the civil rights movement—told through poems. Historical photographs serve as a powerful visual addition to document the treatment of Black people in America.
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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
By Marilyn NelsonGet to know Augusta Savage, an artist who sculpted the beauty and struggles of Black life during the Harlem Renaissance. Told in poems and photographs.
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Beating Heart Baby
By Lio MinWhen Santi’s internet friend Memo ghosts him, it almost makes Santi feel like he's lost a part of himself. Now Santi is living in LA, where Memo is from and where he is made to feel unwelcome by Suwa, the musical prodigy in marching band.
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Blood Scion
By Deborah FalayeWar doesn't come naturally to Sloane—nor does her god-like ability to incinerate anything in her path. When she's forcibly conscripted into the army, she starts to calculate if she can destroy them from within.
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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, adapted by …Illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt | A thought-provoking call to action about listening, learning, and communing with nature. This illustrated book plants seeds of Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge in the reader.
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Break This House
By Candice IlohYaminah and her father have made a comfortable life for themselves in Brooklyn. When she gets news of her estangled mother's death, however, Yaminah must break out of her bubble to confront her unspoken emotions before they break her.
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Burn Down, Rise Up
By Vincent TiradoWelcome to the Echo Game. Players must enter the subway tunnels at 3 AM, chant “We are Echobound,” get on the first train that pulls into the station, and stay on until sunrise—or risk never getting off.
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Even When Your Voice Shakes
By Ruby Yayra GokaAmerley needs to work to help support her family—but after being sexually assulted by her boss's son, she must make a choice: stay quiet and keep her job or speak up for herself and others who are silenced.
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Flirting with Fate
By J.C. CervantesAva arrives too late to her grandmother's deathbed to receive her mythical blessing. The only way to get it is for Ava to befriend a random boy, who accidentally got the family blessing. A swoonworthy story about family, fate, and love.
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Hollow Fires
By Samira AhmedSafiya is haunted by the ghost of Jawad, a teen killed over a cosplay jetpack that his teacher mistook for a bomb. Jawad helps her uncover the truth of what happened in this emotionally intense story about speaking up and seeking justice.
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If You Could See the Sun
By Ann LiangAlice has a strange new power—turning invisible. When her parents struggle to afford tuition, Alice uses her powers to cover her expenses by uncovering her classmates' secrets, for a price. Will the money be worth losing her values?
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Lakelore
By Anna-Marie McLemoreTwo nonbinary Mexican American teens are the only ones who have been to the rumored world under their neighborhood lake. When it starts to drift above the surface and threatens to expose their secrets, they must band together to stop it.
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Love Radio
By Ebony LaDelleLooking for love advice and smooth 90s R&B? Look no further. Prince Jones's Love Radio show has it all. Fall in love with Prince and Dani in this swoonworthy story about love, family, and roller skating.
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Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity
By Angela VelezLulu and Milagro are so different, it's hard to believe they're even sisters. But when they’re forced to go on a cross-country school trip together, they start to grow closer somewhere between Baltimore and San Francisco!
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A Magic Steeped in Poison
By Judy I. LinThis first book in a duology is about Ning, a girl trying to save her sister's life. Can Ning win the competition to find the greatest shennong-shi—masters of tea-making—to save her sister in this high-stakes fantasy?
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Maybe An Artist, A Graphic Memoir
By Liz MontagueLiz is learning how to navigate life and find the confidence to pursue her passion. Funny and poignant, Liz becomes one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker in this brilliant memoir.
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
By Laura GaoLaura Gao is a young queer Chinese American living in Texas—and the people around her never let her forget it. While she tries to fit in and forget about her Wuhan roots, she finds she can’t help but be anyone but herself.
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Nothing Burns as Bright as You
By Ashley WoodfolkTwo best friends explore what loving each other means in this impassioned story about queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship .
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Salaam, with Love
By Sara Sharaf BegDua's plans for a quiet Ramadan are upside down when she stays with her conservative extended family. In Queens, she grows closer to God, her cousins, and one particularly cute drummer—and learns more about herself than she bargained for.
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Squire
By Sara Alfageeh and Nadia ShammasAiza has always dreamed of becoming a Knight. When she realizes during her training that the military objectives might cause more harm than good to her people, she's faced with an important choice: loyalty to her heritage or the Empire.
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This Place Is Still Beautiful
By XiXi TianAnnalie wants to pretend a racial attack never happened. Margaret is ready to fight back.Two sisters with nothing in common face an incident that will either bring a family together or pull them further apart.
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TJ Powar Has Something to Prove
By Jesmeen Kaur DeoWhen her cousin is targeted by a hurtful meme for not removing her body hair, TJ decides to take a stand to prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful—and disprove messages about toxic beauty standards.
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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and…Authentic and inspiring, this graphic novel memoir records everything that led Tommie Smith to take a stand at the 1968 Olympics and raise his fist against racism and social injuctice.
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