My Heart Underwater
By: Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After Corazon's mother catches her kissing her older female teacher, Corazon is sent to the Philipp…
Want to Read $ 9.59"There can be times,"-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
"There can be times,"-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
"There can be times,"-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
"You had a spirit in you also,"-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
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1. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
By: Sabina Khan
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Scholastic has bought Sabina Khan's The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali, in which the title character i… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
2. In the Country
By: Mia Alvar
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, … read more
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3. The First State of Being
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
4. Skater Boy
By: Anthony Nerada
4.03
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In this YA pop-punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to wr… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"If we can convince our own minds we aren't good enough, we can't really be disappointed when we don't get what we truly want."-Anthony Nerada, Skater Boy
5. Patron Saints of Nothing
By: Randy Ribay
4.23
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncov… read more
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- teen
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- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- audiobook
"We failed him in life. We should not fail him in death."-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"English is a language that lives in the middle of the mouth, but Tagalog is more of an open throat song that dances between the tip of the tongue and the teeth. My mouth feels too heavy, too thick, t…"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change. My family, myself, this world--al of us are flawed. But flawed doesn't mean hopeless. It doesn't mean…"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"Maybe he was reaching out to me through those words, and I let him slip away. I stayed silent. If I had written to him more often, been more honest, would it have helped him work through some of his …"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
6. Forget Me Not
By: Alyson Derrick
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obsta… read more
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- romance
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- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
7. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
8. Ophelia After All
By: Racquel Marie
4.06
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Op… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"HAMLET MAY HAVE BEEN A TRAGEDY. BUT OPHELIA DESERVED A COMEDY"-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All
"It's been hard and messy and scary. I want you guys to care about it and what it changes for me, but without it changing us."-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All
"But I don’t think the truest love is deemed so because it’s the most painful. Waiting for someone to love you back seems beautiful in a miserable way when you’re young. No offense."-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All
"I may doubt the truths of the world, but never again will I doubt whether or not the person that I am, or may be, is loved or worthy of love. I know myself, and I don't. Both can be true."-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All
9. 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
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- realistic fiction
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- 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
10. Parachutes
By: Kelly Yang
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- romance
- teen
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
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- contemporary
- asian literature
- audiobook
"Welcome to America! Where everyone walks around in gym clothes and nobody goes to the gym!"-Kelly Yang, Parachutes
"Is this what the rest of my life is going to be like? Moments of happiness punctured by the memory of what happened, like a bomb which can detonate at any time."-Kelly Yang, Parachutes
11. Chasing Pacquiao
By: Rod Pulido
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Experience the extreme joys, sorrows, and triumphs of a queer Filipino-American teenager struggling… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
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- young adult
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12. Nothing Burns as Bright as You
By: Ashley Woodfolk
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Five starred reviews! From New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Br… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"You flew through books, reading more in a week than some people did in a year."-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
"I get it, she says. And I go from feeling invisible to feeling like I fill the whole room, the whole building, the whole sky."-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
"Parents think they control us with their authority. But really the only reason we listen is because we're desperate for them to love us. And we're terrified that if we do too many bad things, they'll…"-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
"A Lie: You’re not my girlfriend The truth: we both know exactly who we are to each other If you want to get technical.. if you counted up the hours i spent thinking of you and the days we spent in yo…"-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You
13. The Girl in Question
By: Tess Sharpe
4.35
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
High school is over, but Nora O'Malley's life isn't, which is weird now that her murderous stepdad … read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's fucking with fate."-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question
"Sometimes lying is the only way through to survival."-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question
"It's time to stop reacting. It's time to start attacking."-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question
"Sorry you got fired. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. "-Tess Sharpe, The Girl in Question
14. I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
By: Shannon C.F. Rogers
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Packed with voice, this is a powerful coming-of-age YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tri… read more
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- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
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- asian literature
- family
- audiobook
15. The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)
By: Amie Kaufman
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner have crafted a gripping tale … read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"The floating market takes shape amid a flutter of torches and spellfire, each pinprick of light tailed by its glittering reflection in the river beneath."-Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)
"I don’t know if I believe prophecies. I don’t know if I believe in her gods or her destiny. I don’t know if I believe in any of this. But I believe in her."-Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)
"Even the most beautiful tree in the forest-sea cannot live forever. When it dies, it decomposes, returning its life to the earth, and clearing a space for the sun, and a hundred new plants spring up …"-Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky (The Other Side of the Sky, #1)
16. Bruised
By: Tanya Boteju
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an acci… read more
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- young adult
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17. Gay the Pray Away
By: Natalie Naudus
4.46
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the libr… read more
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18. Wish You Weren't Here
By: Erin Baldwin
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. Letters to a Young Brown Girl
By: Barbara Jane Reyes
4.37
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with b… read more
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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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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
21. My Heart Underwater
By: Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After Corazon's mother catches her kissing her older female teacher, Corazon is sent to the Philipp… read more
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- romance
- teen
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- audiobook
"There can be times,"-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
"You had a spirit in you also,"-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
"I feel my heart underwater here. It’s strong and steady now, not drowning. I’m held. I’m afloat. I’m home."-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
"I’m afraid my crushes are dangerous for me. Maybe my heart will lead me the wrong way, always. Back into something that’ll always end bad. Into the wrong waters, where I’ll drown."-Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, My Heart Underwater
