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• Adventures of Mary Jane

  Jahren, Hope,

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• Brownstone

  Teer, Samuel,

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• The Color of a Lie

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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• The Davenports

  Marquis, Krystal

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• The Light in Hidden Places

  a Novel Based on the True Story of Stefania Pódgorska

  Cameron, Sharon, 1970-

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  The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII.

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda,

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  Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Free

  Chee, Traci

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  We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.

• Angel of Greenwood

  Pink, Randi

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  Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink is a piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

• A Sitting in St. James

  Williams-Garcia, Rita

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  This novel about the interwoven lives of those bound to a plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterwork—empathetic, brutal, and entirely human—and essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Luck of the Titanic

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)

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  Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York. Much to her surprise though, she's turned away…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  Lee, Mackenzi

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  A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age.

• The Black Kids

  Hammonds Reed, Christina

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  This unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

• Like a Love Story

  Nazemian, Abdi

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  It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.

• Redbone

  the True Story of a Native American Rock Band

  Staebler, Christian, 1958-

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  Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock 'n' roll pioneers Redbone.

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Superman Smashes the Klan

  the Graphic Novel

  Yang, Gene Luen

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  Inspired by the 1940s Superman radio serial "Clan of the Fiery Cross," New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang and artist Gurihiru bring us a personal retelling of two different immigrants finding ways to belong.

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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  Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Must Betray You

  Sepetys, Ruta

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  Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.

• Lovely War

  Berry, Julie, 1974-

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  They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Downstairs Girl

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)

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  By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel 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 genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss…Read moreRead more of this annotation