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1) Rick
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends and discover his own identity, which may just be to opt...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Baylee goes from having never been kissed to navigating two potential relationships, one with her long-time crush Freddie and the other with funny barista Alex, as the world begins to shut down from COVID-19.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Valentina jeopardizes her future when she gets into an altercation with her rival, Leticia, during a soccer game, so the two girls must co-captain a soccer team to redeem themselves and what starts as a shaky alliance of necessity blossoms into something more.
Author
Series
Devouring Wolf volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To find out why twelve-year-old Riley and the rest of the sapling pack did not transform into werewolves on the first full moon of the summer, they must unearth their community's deepest secrets and face a terrifying legendary creature.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1987. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends, but it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that is off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she will have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the poems they used to exchange? Iris resolves to speak out against the rampant fear, misinformation, and prejudice...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarpersCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hanged in an annual sacrificial ritual to Poseidon, seventeen-year-old oracle Leto awakens on an island inhibited by Melantho, a strange immoral girl with oceanic powers, who tells Leto the only way to break Poseidon's curse is to return to Ithaca and kill the prince.
11) Cupid's revenge
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Unlike her friend Teddy, sixteen-year-old Tilly is not looking for a girlfriend, but when Teddy forms a crush on Katherine Cooper-Bunting, his co-star in their community theater production, Tilly finds herself also swooning over her.
12) Forever is now
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears."--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
15) Baby drag queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, 17-yr-old Ichiro secretly enters a drag performance contest."--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast to investigate an unsolved murder in their hometown, and after making a startling discovery, they accuse a potentially innocent man of murder on one of their episodes.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Belle Époque city of Severon, Sybil Clarion and Esme Rimbaud, best friends with a secret crush on each other, find themselves drawn into a risky heist proposition from a mysterious Green Faerie named Maeve, which could offer financial security but may endanger their carefully constructed lives.
18) Man o' war
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business in small-town Ohio. When a chance encounter with a happy, healthy queer person on the annual field trip lands River literally in the shark tank, they must admit the truth: they don't know who they are--only what they've been told to be. This sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender...
19) Spell bound
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rival teenage apprentice sorcerers, Rook and Sun, must team up to save their teachers or risk losing their magic forever.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages : map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
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