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2) Squint
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English
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Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
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Edutopia's "25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade," NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children's Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine's Student Book Award List, Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award List, Rhode Island Middle School Book Award 2020 List, 2020 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Nominee, 2021 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee, 2020-2021 Truman Award (Missouri)...
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Rainbow Reads for Teens
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Rainbow Reads for Teens
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity, and that of his pen pal, will be revealed.
8) Odds & ends
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English
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While the Odds crew tries to manage their bizarre superpowers, several of their less-than-gifted classmates have become town celebrities thanks to their suspiciously good exam results, prompting Jay and Nick to investigate.
9) Gallant
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Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no no past except for her one treasure, her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
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Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
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Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Classics with YA Pairs
Most Challenged Books of 2022
Staff Reads November 2023
Classics with YA Pairs
Most Challenged Books of 2022
Staff Reads November 2023
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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.
14) Autoboyography
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High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.
15) The best at it
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2021-2022 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Children's Books for Pride Month
Tricky Topics: Talking About Sexuality and Gender with Children
Children's Books for Pride Month
Tricky Topics: Talking About Sexuality and Gender with Children
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Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
16) Solitaire
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"Tori Spring feels completely disconnected from her life--until she meets the relentlessly cheerful Michael Holden, and a series of schoolwide pranks starts to draw her out of her shell"--
17) Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1
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Kristina Georgia Snow disappears and Bree takes her place, Bree does drugs, gets pregnant, is defiant and is fighting for her life as Kristina.
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Mallory learned at a young age that the only way to survive was to stay silent. Although her life now is better, her tragic past still has a strong hold on her. When she runs into Rider, her childhood friend and protector, on the first day at her new school, she realizes their connection is still strong, and he's still struggling with his past as well. When he starts to lose control, Mallory must finally speak up to save the one she loves.
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At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Questions will hit home with young readers who love Hena Khan and Varian Johnson—or anyone struggling to understand recent U.S. history and how it still affects us today.
Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that
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