Internment
By: Samira Ahmed
3.87
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old …
Want to Read $ 9.99"I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"In the quiet of the night, the heart knows the lies you told to survive."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"When you appease a man's conscience, you can take his freedom and he will thank you for it."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"It's not about danger. It's about fear. People are willing to trade their freedom, even for a false sense of protection."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
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1. The Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more
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"Pero, tú no eres fácil."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
2. Dear Martin
By: Nic Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter De… read more
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3. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
By: Dashka Slater
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more
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4. American Street
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun. On the corner of American Stre… read more
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5. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
By: Sara Pascoe
4.30
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more
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"What’s “ague?"-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
6. All American Boys
By: Jason Reynolds , Brendan Kiely
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rashad is absent again today. That's the sidewalk graffiti that started it all... Well, no, actuall… read more
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7. Where Things Come Back
By: John Corey Whaley
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and pai… read more
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8. Meet Me in Outer Space
By: None
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Edie Kits has a learning disability. Well, not a learning disability exactly, but a disability that… read more
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9. Winger (Winger, #1)
By: Andrew Smith
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Nort… read more
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10. All My Rage
By: Sabaa Tahir
4.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arrange… read more
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"Songs help me process life. They help me feel."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your fait in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your faith in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"Oh God, Toufiq," I whispered. "So much money we put in. What will we do now? I am a fool!" "Kindness is not foolish, my heart." He put his arm around me. "Anyway. At least they didn't steal the pictu…"-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
11. Apple: Skin to the Core
By: Eric Gansworth
3.78
Format: 339 pages, None
Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of a… read more
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12. Punching the Air
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.41
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exo… read more
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"They call it free time and it's the biggest lie because we are still here"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"This is the first time my feet are bound where the fuck am I supposed to run anyway"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"Blank Canvas I have a crayon and paper I didn't know that I could hold this little bit of freedom in my hands"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"And maybe there are small cracks in our walls and we start to see a sliver of light shine through in each other"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
13. We Deserve Monuments
By: Jas Hammonds
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more
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"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments
14. Clap When You Land
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more
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"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"I have my fingerprints all over you. & I don't need the world to see them to know that they're there."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
15. Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
By: Angie Thomas
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of … read more
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"So is Iesha."-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
"Roses can bloom in the hardest conditions."-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
"No matter where you come from, you're always worth more than you think,"-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
"Living your life based off what other people think, ain’t living at all."-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
16. We Are Not Free
By: Traci Chee
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the… read more
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"...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face."-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
"We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous."-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
"Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American."-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
"If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done"-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free
17. Warrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
4.34
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more
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"Some friendships can endure anything."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
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"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
18. Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
By: Nic Stone
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise."-Nic Stone, Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
19. Pride
By: Ibi Zoboi
3.74
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring … read more
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"Late June in Brooklyn is like the very beginning of a party-when the music is really good, but you know that it's about to get way better, so you just do a little two-step before the real turn-up sta…"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
"We have more space and less time. And the love we had for our whole neighborhood now only fits into this wood-frame house in the middle of a quiet block. We don't know the people who live across the …"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
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20. On the Come Up
By: Angie Thomas
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"All right now, y’all,"-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up
"That’s what we call our goal, the come up."-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up
"I'll always be my dad’s daughter if nothing else."-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up
"Done up. The good news? A lot rhymes with “done up."-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up
21. With the Fire on High
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.18
Format: 400 pages, ebook
With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has… read more
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"You're the author on your own life story."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
"Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
"The whole of me is black. The whole of me is whole."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
"It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
22. Internment
By: Samira Ahmed
3.87
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old … read more
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"I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"In the quiet of the night, the heart knows the lies you told to survive."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"When you appease a man's conscience, you can take his freedom and he will thank you for it."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"It's not about danger. It's about fear. People are willing to trade their freedom, even for a false sense of protection."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
23. Slay
By: Brittney Morris
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'We are different ages, genders and traditions ... but tonight we all SLAY'Black Panther meets Read… read more
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"As we duel, as we chat, there's an understanding that "your black is not my black" and "your weird is not my weird" and "your beautiful is not my beautiful," and that's okay. It' brings tears to my e…"-Brittney Morris, Slay
24. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
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4.30
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When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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25. This Is My America
By: Kim Johnson
4.46
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist in… read more
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26. We Are Not From Here
By: Jenny Torres Sanchez
4.48
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico borde… read more
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"We are to Mexico what Mexico is to the States."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"Los sueños y los hombres son para las pendejas."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"You can outrun danger...But you can’t outrun the pain."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"We are luchadores. We are fighters. We are those who dare to try against impossible odds."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
27. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
By: Olivia A. Cole
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more
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"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
28. Sanctuary
By: Paola Mendoza
4.15
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to f… read more
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29. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
By: Michelle T. King
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centered on the life of celebrity television chef and c… read more
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30. Brighter Than the Moon
By: David Valdes
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Shy foster kid Jonas and self-assured vlogger Shani met online, and so far, that's where their rela… read more
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31. A Cave in the Clouds: A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS
By: Badeeah Hassan Ahmed
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezi… read more
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