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Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.
2) Ultraviolet
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Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
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"Twelve-year-old Mateo returns to his grandparents' island to deal with a family tragedy. From the moment he arrives, a series of terrifying events turn his world upside down. A stray cat, a ruthless town bully, and a lost ghost mysteriously come together and change his life forever"--Goodreads.com
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When twelve-year-old Norwegian Tuva begins seventh grade, she notices shifts in her friendships, such as Linnea getting a boyfriend and Bao vowing to never have one. Caught in the middle of pressures from both of them, Tuva begins confiding in her diary about whether she needs to be more mature, her feelings for a cool girl named Miriam, and why everything has to change.
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Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...
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Fourteen-year-old Palestinian American Ida feels invisible at home and a target at school, where xenophobic comments and bullying force her to move to a different school. One day, while eating from a homemade jar of olives gifted to her mother from an aunt who lives in Palestine, Ida is magically transported there and sees the life she would have led, had her family stayed. As she eats olives she is transported between places, learning the parallels...
9) Out of body
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"When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"--
10) Nat d'abord
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"For the first time in her life, Natalie feels confident. Her talents are being recognized, she has supportive friends, and she's spending a ton of time with her crush, Derek! But when Derek tells Natalie that he just wants to be friends, Natalie's self-confidence quickly changes to self-doubt. As she tries to recover from her broken heart, Natalie casts aside her talents and even her friends. With no one to turn to, Natalie will have to pull herself...
11) Nat (tout court)
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"Natalie has never felt that she's enough--athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought--now she's not even cool enough for her best friend, Lily! As Natalie tries to get her best friend back, she learns more about her true self and natural talents. If Natalie can focus on who she is rather than who she isn't, then she might realize she's more than...
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"1947, Amsterdam. Thomas, 10, has a method to distract the pain: invent stories. When he begins to speak, he forgets that his mother has died at the end of the war, that his father can barely see for both of them and that at school the other boys bother him. In a hot summer, Thomas remembers the last winter that he shared with Bet and Zwaan in the house of Weteringschans. There he knows the fate of Zwaan's parents, Jews, and of Bet's father, a communist;...
13) Pritty
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"Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be...Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as everything in his world begins to heat up, especially with Leroy, whispered rumors...