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…
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1. Bright Red Fruit
By: Safia Elhillo
4.49
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
2. The Kill Factor
By: Ben Oliver
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new game show that offers young criminals the chance at freedom has been greenlit. Little d… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
3. 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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- historical
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- young adult historical fiction
- audiobook
4. Thirsty
By: Jas Hammonds
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
5. 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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- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
6. 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
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- audiobook
7. 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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- fiction
- 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
8. Four Eids and a Funeral
By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
3.71
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
9. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- audiobook
10. 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
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- audiobook
11. Girls Like Her
By: Melanie Sumrow
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to st… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
12. 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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- audiobook
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- young adult
- contemporary
13. Break to You
By: Neal Shusterman
3.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young a… read more
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- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- social issues
- audiobook
14. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...
By: Jason Reynolds
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
15. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- young adult
- social justice
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- contemporary
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- social issues
- young adult historical fiction
- historical fiction
16. The Blonde Dies First
By: Joelle Wellington
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
17. 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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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Love seems to die around me."-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights
18. Not About a Boy
By: Myah Hollis
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Euphoria meets Girl in Pieces in this coming-of-age story of a girl trying to put a grief-stricken … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
19. Louder Than Words
By: Ashley Woodfolk
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This amazing collaboration brings together two inspirational Black artists, NYT bestselling author … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
20. Everything We Never Had
By: Randy Ribay
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more
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- historical
- young adult
- fiction
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- contemporary
- audiobook
21. Ruin Road
By: Lamar Giles
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"My twin, Lamar, is a phenomenal innovative storyteller. His thrillers have laid the groundwork for… read more
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- young adult
- audiobook
