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…
Want to Read $ 13.99"They call it free time and it's the biggest lie because we are still here"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"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
"This is the first time my feet are bound where the fuck am I supposed to run anyway"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
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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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- poetry
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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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- race
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
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- contemporary
- audiobook
3. Long Way Down
By: Jason Reynolds
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RU… read more
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- poetry
- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"How do you tell water ain't nothing funny about drowing?"-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Best to become invisible in times like these. Everybody knows that."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"just because they were dead. People always love people more when they’re dead."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Pretended like yellow tape was some kind of neighborhood flag that don't nobody wave but always be flapping in the wind."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
4. 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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- fiction
- teen
- young adult
"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
5. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
By: Isabel Quintero
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Named to Kirkus ReviewsBest Books of 2014 Named to School Library JournalBest Books of 2014 Gabi He… read more
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6. 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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- poetry
- race
- young adult contemporary
- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
7. Guard Your Heart
By: Sue Divin
3.97
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Derry. Summer 2016. Aidan and Iona, now eighteen, were both born on the day of the Northern Ireland… read more
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- fiction
- young adult contemporary
- young adult
- contemporary
8. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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- poetry
- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
9. 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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- poetry
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
"This whole time she's swallowed her words like bitter pills not realizing they were slow-drip poison."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
10. Tsunami Girl
By: Julian Sedgwick
4.02
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
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11. 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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- young adult contemporary
- race
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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)
12. Me: Moth
By: Amber McBride
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA novel-in-verse that is both a coming-of-age and a ghost story. Moth has lost her fami… read more
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- poetry
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Most of the founding fathers were like that; they spoke of freedom but did not offer it to everyone. They had bodies in their closets."-Amber McBride, Me: Moth
"Places we decide to stop. Monticello Plantation, Charlottesville, Virginia: Where Thomas Jefferson committed several sins; we go to stomp on hateful plantation ground."-Amber McBride, Me: Moth
13. Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
By: Nic Stone
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the stunning and hard-hitting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin, incarcerated … read more
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- young adult contemporary
- race
- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- social justice
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise."-Nic Stone, Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
14. Rez Ball
By: Byron Graves
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more
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- teen
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. Saints of the Household
By: Ari Tison
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
16. The Black Flamingo
By: Dean Atta
4.35
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his w… read more
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- poetry
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Don’t let anyone tell you that you are half anything."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"Be a bit gay, be very gay. Be the glitter that shows up in unexpected places."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"To have a loving family is to feel afraid and yet believe you are going to be all right."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"I know that’s wrong, my thinking was wrong, the different ones are often the most strong"-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
17. 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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- realistic fiction
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- audiobook
18. 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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- poetry
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
19. Cane Warriors
By: Alex Wheatle
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Nobody free till everybody free. Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the… read more
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20. The Crossing
By: Manjeet Mann
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The trailblazing new novel from the Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of Run, Rebel. Praise for Run… read more
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- young adult contemporary
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21. Manmade Monsters
By: Andrea L. Rogers
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-… read more
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- young adult
- audiobook
