This Golden State
By: Marit Weisenberg
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay i…
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1. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
By: Kindra Neely
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more
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2. 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
3. Chaos Theory
By: Nic Stone
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more
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- romance
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4. A Long Stretch of Bad Days
By: Mindy McGinnis
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more
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- mystery thriller
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"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days
5. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By: Tommie Smith
4.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more
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6. Message Not Found
By: Dante Medema
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce au… read more
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7. This Golden State
By: Marit Weisenberg
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay i… read more
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8. Love in English
By: Maria E. Andreu
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old Ana has just moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school… read more
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"My family is not running a marathon. We're running a relay. My parents have gotten me this far. Everything I do is to get us further. I carry their hopes along with my own."-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English
"I lack precisely the thing to explain what I lack. The words. For every word I get out, there's a whole iceberg of thoughts and hopes and feelings that stay unspoken. But how do I speak them?"-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English
9. We Are All So Good at Smiling
By: Amber McBride
3.88
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more
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- audiobook
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"Sorrow is no one's fault."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"The only way out is through."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
10. 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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- young adult
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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)
11. Hollow Fires
By: Samira Ahmed
4.28
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more
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- mystery thriller
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"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires
12. Star Splitter
By: Matthew J. Kirby
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unra… read more
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- young adult
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- audiobook
13. More Than Just a Pretty Face
By: Syed M. Masood
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han, a sweetly funny YA rom-com debut about falling in love,… read more
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- young adult
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"That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien."-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face
"Tell me, Daynal Jilani, how exactly are you more than just a pretty face?" I gave her an adorable, irresistible grin. "I'm an absolutely gorgeous face."-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face
"Someone in a mosque once told me about the water behind people’s faces. This water, he said, changed depending on what you did and what you believed, and as you got older it began to freeze. The kind…"-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face
14. The Getaway
By: Lamar Giles
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more
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15. Four Letter Word
By: Gretchen McNeil
3.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-pounding thriller, Izzy and her family welcome an exchange student into their home. B… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"Anxiety was the great silencer."-Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word
"[She] glanced at the gray, damp sky and wondered if love made you believe that even the grossest days were beautiful."-Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word
16. The First Thing About You
By: Chaz Hayden
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself. When fifte… read more
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"Why are you so excited to have me as a student?"-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You
"I guess we’re two lonely nerds sharing our sad stories over lunch."-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You
"Normal is a difficult word for me. I would never be normal in the eyes of society. It’s all I’ve wanted, but somehow it chooses everyone else instead of me."-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You
17. Jumper
By: Melanie Crowder
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
In a ripped-from-the-headlines story, nineteen-year-old Blair's passion for fighting fires lands he… read more
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18. Wrecked
By: Heather Henson
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Looking for Alaska meets Breaking Bad in this piercing novel about three teens, caught in the middl… read more
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19. Cracking the Bell
By: Geoff Herbach
3.79
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
Friday Night Lights meets Concussion in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author … read more
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20. Sunrise Nights
By: Jeff Zentner
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more
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"Love seems to die around me."-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights
21. Stepping Off
By: Jordan Sonnenblick
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Jesse Dienstag's favorite sweatshirt says, "The real world isn't real." That's the slogan of the va… read more
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