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• Everything Is Poison

  McCullough, Joy,

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  Sixteen-year-old Carmela Tofana finally gains access to her mother's apothecary in early 17th-century Rome, but for every sweet-smelling flower extract there is another potion requiring darker ingredients, in a historical novel told in prose and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of a Lie

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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  In 1955, when his white-passing family moves to an idyllic all-white suburban town, Calvin finds himself caught between two worlds when he discovers dark secrets about the white town and its inhabitants that places his family in danger. [Teen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything We Never Had

  Ribay, Randy,

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  From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged and moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stateless

  Wein, Elizabeth,

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  Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim. [Teen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Only This Beautiful Moment

  Nazemian, Abdi,

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  Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story examines queer identity at the end of different decades and follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Davenports

  Marquis, Krystal,

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  Inspired by the real-life story of C. R. Patterson and his family, this sweeping novel is centered around the Davenports, one of the few Black families of immense wealth, and follows four determined and passionate young Black women who discover the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Artifice

  Cameron, Sharon, 1970-

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  Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam. In the middle of the war, she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety—but in 1943 it is hard to know who to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fortress of Snow

  Dickerson, Melanie,

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  In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger. [Teen Fiction]

• I Must Betray You

  Sepetys, Ruta,

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  In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda

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  "That book . . . about two women and they fell in love with each other . . . have you ever heard of such a thing?" Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Enigma Game

  Wein, Elizabeth,

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  Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II. [Teen Fiction]

• They Went Left

  Hesse, Monica,

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  Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life. [Teen Fiction]

• The Paper Girl of Paris

  Taylor, Jordyn,

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  Inheriting a Parisian apartment that was abandoned after World War II, Alice teams up with a charming student to uncover the story of a long-lost great aunt who hid her work with the Resistance behind the persona of a socialite Nazi collaborator.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Kids

  Hammonds Reed, Christina,

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  With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble. [Teen Fiction]

• We Are Not Free

  Chee, Traci,

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  Growing up together in San Francisco's Japantown community, fourteen second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. [Teen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blackbird Girls

  Blankman, Anne,

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  Told in alternating perspectives among three girls—Valentina and Oksana in 1986 and Rifka in 1941—this story shows that hatred, intolerance, and oppression are no match for the power of true friendship. [Teen Fiction]

• The Downstairs Girl

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather),

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  1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for "the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like a Love Story

  Nazemian, Abdi

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  An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer, and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fountains of Silence

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  Sepetys, Ruta,

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  Drawn back to his mother’s homeland by the utopian promises of the Franco regime in 1957 Madrid, the photographer son of an oil tycoon bonds with a girl who raises his awareness about the lingering shadows of the Spanish Civil War. [Teen Fiction]