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1) The poet X
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers?especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who...
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English
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2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
Bestselling Books Written During NaNoWriMo
Diverse YA Reads
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Bestselling Books Written During NaNoWriMo
Diverse YA Reads
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Publisher Annotation: Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago?s life has been about making the tough decisions?doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it?s not worth...
3) Furia
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2023-2024 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Hispanic Heritage Month: October 2023
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Hispanic Heritage Month: October 2023
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Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
The Reese's YA Book Club pick and 2021 Pura Belpre Award-winning, powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line--even her blooming love...
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English
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A Book Written By A Person of Color
Books in English for Adults & Teens / Libros en inglés para adultos y adolescentes
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Books in English for Adults & Teens / Libros en inglés para adultos y adolescentes
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Publisher Annotation: In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
5) Chlorine sky
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English
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Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
7) Poet X
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Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never...
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