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FICTION - NONFICTION

The Last Tiger

Julia Riew, Brad Riew

The Burning Season

Caroline Starr Rose

Into the Rapids

Ann Braden

Dan in Green Gables: A Graphic Novel

Rey Terciero, Claudia Aguirre

The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez

Jasminne Paulino

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze

Derrick Barnes

A Most Perilous World

Kristina R. Gaddy

Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Eric S. Singer

Radiant

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Safe Harbor

Padma Venkatraman

Forty Words for Love

Aisha Saeed

The Flip Side: A Graphic Novel

Jason Walz

Glitch Girl!

Rainie Oet

Whale Eyes

James Robinson, Brian Rea

Tales from Beyond the Rainbow

Pete Jordi Wood

Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot

Preeti Chhibber

Heir (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick)

Sabaa Tahir

No Rules Tonight

Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Ryan Estrada

The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance: A Graphic Novel

Josh Ulrich

Octopus Moon

Bobbie Pyron

Summer at Squee

Andrea Wang

The Curse of Eelgrass Bog

Mary Averling

American Wings

Sherri L. Smith, Elizabeth Wein

Crushing It

Erin Becker

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

Anzu and the Realm of Darkness: A Graphic Novel

Mai K. Nguyen, Mai K. Nguyen

On the Bright Side

Anna Sortino

The Night War

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Max in the House of Spies

Adam Gidwitz

Amil and the After

Veera Hiranandani

Chronically Dolores

Maya Van Wagenen

The Judgment of Yoyo Gold

Isaac Blum

Forgive Me Not

Jennifer Baker

Star Splitter

Matthew J. Kirby

Hands

Torrey Maldonado

Opinions and Opossums

Ann Braden

Cool. Awkward. Black.

Karen Strong

The Do More Club

Dana Kramaroff

Thieves' Gambit

Kayvion Lewis

The Order of Things

Kaija Langley

Warrior Girl

Carmen Tafolla

The Many Masks of Andy Zhou

Jack Cheng

The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet

Jake Maia Arlow

The Davenports

Krystal Marquis

Beasts of Prey

Ayana Gray

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

Atia Abawi

African Town

Charles Waters, Irene Latham

The Many Meanings of Meilan

Andrea Wang

Barely Floating

Lilliam Rivera

The Line Tender

Kate Allen

Letters from Cuba

Ruth Behar

Written in the Stars

Aisha Saeed

Flight of the Puffin

Ann Braden

A Time to Dance

Padma Venkatraman

The Bridge Home

Padma Venkatraman

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!

Jessica Kim

The Legend of Auntie Po

Shing Yin Khor

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom

Sangu Mandanna

Maya and the Robot

Eve L. Ewing, Christine Almeda

Closer to Nowhere

Ellen Hopkins

The First Rule of Punk

Celia C. Pérez

Make a Move, Sunny Park!

Jessica Kim

Chasing Pacquiao

Rod Pulido

Small Spaces

Katherine Arden

A Bird Will Soar

Alison Green Myers

The First Rule of Climate Club

Carrie Firestone

Give Me a Sign

Anna Sortino

Remember Us

Jacqueline Woodson

Lalo Lespérance Never Forgot

Phillippe Diederich

We Were the Fire

Shelia P. Moses

The Road to After

Rebekah Lowell

A Seed in the Sun

Aida Salazar

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

Ibi Zoboi

Hotel Magnifique

Emily J. Taylor

The Only Girl in Town

Ally Condie

Counting by 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Dress Coded

Carrie Firestone

A Taste for Love

Jennifer Yen

Perfectly Parvin

Olivia Abtahi

Samira Surfs

Rukhsanna Guidroz, Fahmida Azim

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

I Must Betray You

Ruta Sepetys

They Call Me Güero

David Bowles

How to Find What You're Not Looking For

Veera Hiranandani

The Night Diary

Veera Hiranandani

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes

The Blackbird Girls

Anne Blankman

Outrun the Moon

Stacey Lee

Luck of the Titanic

Stacey Lee

The Downstairs Girl: Reese's YA Book Club

Stacey Lee

Rez Dogs

Joseph Bruchac

The Devil's Arithmetic

Jane Yolen

Beyond the Bright Sea

Lauren Wolk

Matched

Ally Condie

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir

The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition

S. E. Hinton

Her Royal Highness

Rachel Hawkins

Amal Unbound

Aisha Saeed

Omar Rising

Aisha Saeed

Different Kinds of Fruit

Kyle Lukoff

Too Bright to See

Kyle Lukoff

A World Worth Saving

Kyle Lukoff

Thirst

Varsha Bajaj

The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins

Gail Shepherd

Beyond the Break

Heather Buchta

What About Will

Ellen Hopkins

Middle School's a Drag, You Better Werk!

Greg Howard

Frankly in Love

David Yoon

Wolf Hollow

Lauren Wolk

Neverlanders: A Graphic Novel

Tom Taylor, Jon Sommariva

Each Tiny Spark

Pablo Cartaya

Tight

Torrey Maldonado

Huda F Are You?: A Graphic Novel

Huda Fahmy, Huda Fahmy

We Are Not from Here

Jenny Torres Sanchez

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

Pablo Cartaya

Singing with Elephants

Margarita Engle

Strange Birds

Celia C. Pérez

Before the Ever After

Jacqueline Woodson

Wink

Rob Harrell

Fibbed

Elizabeth Agyemang

The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of

Kristin Levine

Eight Nights of Flirting

Hannah Reynolds

Buffalo Dreamer

Violet Duncan

Across So Many Seas

Ruth Behar

Puzzled

Pan Cooke, Pan Cooke

Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

Ransom Riggs

The Diamond Explorer

Kao Kalia Yang

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell

The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues

Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell

Enter the Body

Joy McCullough

True True

Don P. Hooper

Kareem Between

Shifa Saltagi Safadi

Kings of B'more

R. Eric Thomas

Everything We Never Had

Randy Ribay

Doodles from the Boogie Down

Stephanie Rodriguez

In and Out the Window

Jane Yolen, Cathrin Peterslund

May the Best Player Win

Kyla Zhao

Chasing After Knight

Heather Buchta

This Boy

Ilene Cooper

Hope Nation

Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, Nicola Yoon, Marie Lu, & more...

Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, Nicola Yoon, Marie Lu, Rose Brock

Inaugural Ballers

Andrew Maraniss

Star Child

Ibi Zoboi

Respect the Mic

Tyehimba Jess, Peter Kahn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Dan "Sully" & more...

Tyehimba Jess, Peter Kahn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, Franny Choi

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)

David Treuer, Sheila Keenan

And We Rise

Erica Martin

SHOUT

Laurie Halse Anderson

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

How to Be a (Young) Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi, Nic Stone

From Here

Luma Mufleh

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

Hope Wins

Tom Angleberger, Sarah Mlynowski, Max Brallier, Julie Buxbaum, & more...

Tom Angleberger, Sarah Mlynowski, Max Brallier, Julie Buxbaum, Pablo Cartaya, J. C. Cervantes, Rex Ogle, Matt de la Peña, Stuart Gibbs, Adam Gidwitz, R.L. Stine, Veera Hiranandani, Hena Khan, Gordon Korman, Rose Brock

Singled Out

Andrew Maraniss

Facing the Mountain (Adapted for Young Readers)

Daniel James Brown

Where to Start

Mental Health America, Gemma Correll

A New History of Immigration

Jaclyn Backhaus, Christopher Sebastian Parker, Jennifer Sabin

The Founders Unmasked

Jennifer Sabin, Christopher Sebastian Parker

The Legacy of Jim Crow

Clarence A. Haynes, David Ikard, Jennifer Sabin

Indigenous America

Liam McDonald, Doug Kiel, Jennifer Sabin

Concrete Kids

Amyra León, Ashley Lukashevsky

Imaginary Borders

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Ashley Lukashevsky

This Is What I Know About Art

Kimberly Drew, Ashley Lukashevsky

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

Hannah Testa, Ashley Lukashevsky

The New Queer Conscience

Adam Eli, Ashley Lukashevsky

Skate for Your Life

Leo Baker, Ashley Lukashevsky

One Life: Young Readers Edition

Megan Rapinoe

Games of Deception

Andrew Maraniss

Dancing at the Pity Party

Tyler Feder

Rising Troublemaker

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Lifting as We Climb

Evette Dionne