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• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  "A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"

• Beyond Magenta

  Transgender Teens Speak Out

  Kuklin, Susan

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  Shares insights into the teen transgender experience, tracing six individual's emotional and physical journey as it was shaped by family dynamics, living situations, and the transition each teen made during the personal journey.

• All My Rage

  Tahir, Sabaa,

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  "A love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in."

• All the Bright Places

  Niven, Jennifer

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  "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Alaska

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

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  In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda,

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  When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.

• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason

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  When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ace of Spades

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah,

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  At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persepolis

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  In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic

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  Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  Andrews, Jesse

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  Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.