When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
By: Shannon Gibney
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f…
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1. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- family
- adoption
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
2. Promchanted
By: Morgan Matson
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two modern teens. One classic fairy tale. Absolutely no cell service. Stella Griffin doesn’t b… read more
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- fantasy
- young adult
- contemporary
"Whenever I tried to wear a low ponytail, I inevitably looked like a Founding Father. And not the attractive ones, like Hamilton."-Morgan Matson, Promchanted
"Promise,' Nisha had agreed. She'd held out her pinky and we'd linked them to get and shaken, entering what every fourth-grader knows is a binding contract."-Morgan Matson, Promchanted
"If you like someone, I realized in one incandescent flash, you liked them in a disgusting dungeon next to a literal pile of bones. You liked them everywhere. Because it wasn't about the setting-it wa…"-Morgan Matson, Promchanted
"You can't stop people from things that hurt and are hard, Stella. You can't reroute to avoid pain at all costs. You can't plan your way around everything. Sometimes, you just have to go through with …"-Morgan Matson, Promchanted
3. Tender Beasts
By: Liselle Sambury
3.90
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more
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- fantasy
- young adult
- contemporary
4. The Blackwoods
By: Brandy Colbert
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more
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- family
- teen
- young adult
- contemporary
5. Love, Off the Record
By: Samantha Markum
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Hating Game meets Alex, Approximately in this smart, chemistry-filled teen rom-com about two ri… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
6. Make Me a Liar
By: Melissa Landers
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Veronica Mars gets a fantastical twist in this novel about a girl with a transferrable consciousnes… read more
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- fantasy
- young adult
- contemporary
7. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- adoption
8. The Brightwood Code
By: Monica Hesse
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Seven months ago Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” femal… read more
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- young adult
9. Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
By: Sarah Myer
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Eisner Award Nomination: Best Publication for Teens "A beautiful, courageous book.” Gene Luen Y… read more
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- adoption
10. This Book Won't Burn
By: Samira Ahmed
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more
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- teen
- young adult
- contemporary
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn
11. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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- family
- adoption
12. Wander in the Dark
By: Jumata Emill
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come toge… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
13. Ariel Crashes a Train
By: Olivia A. Cole
3.99
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting w… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"Parents set themselves up for failure by giving their kids names that mean too much. Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby supposed to carry anything so heavy as their parents’ d…"-Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train
14. The Breakup Lists
By: Adib Khorram
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
15. Looking for Smoke
By: K.A. Cobell
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
16. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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- adoption
17. Six Truths and a Lie
By: Ream Shukairy
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
18. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
By: Shannon Gibney
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Shannon Gibney's When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology book and Shannon Gibney's When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
- teen
- short story collection
- coming of age
- young adult
- anthologies
- adoption
- short stories
- family
- contemporary
- fantasy
19. The Calculation of You and Me
By: Serena Kaylor
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate’s help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks st… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
20. What's Eating Jackie Oh?
By: Patricia Park
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Korean American teen tries to balance her dream to become a chef with the cultural expectations o… read more
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- family
- young adult
- contemporary
21. The Color of a Lie
By: Kim Johnson
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
