Grade Level: High School

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  Young Adult Spring Book Club Guide

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  A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer-and Beyond

  A Greater Goal discusses how members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team fought to receive fair treatment and equal pay despite the intense pushback they received from the U.S. Soccer organization. Included in this insightful look at women and soccer are player profiles and vignettes framed from team member perspectives to illustrate the genesis…

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  The Blackwoods

  Brandy Colbert writes about gender, Blackness, and aspiration, and what the Hollywood machine has historically given and taken from performers of color.

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  Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires

  This nonfiction book by an award-winning author/illustrator team focuses on unique angles to a current topic, including injury rehabilitation efforts, species that use wildfires to their advantage, how to help area repopulation, and the animals that help to prevent/fight wildfires.

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  The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee

  Mina is trapped in the graphic story she created. Now it’s up to her to save everyone. In the speculative fiction adventure The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee,a teenage artist grapples with her first love, grief, and learning how to take charge of her own life.

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  This Book Won’t Burn

  Noor discovers hundreds of books by queer and BIPOC authors are being removed from her school library by the school board. Noor can’t sit back and do nothing against this book banning policy, because that goes against everything she believes in.

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  Kareem Between

  Kareem discovers the U.S. isn’t always a safe place for his family and people, and learns how to find his power and voice. This novel provides a new perspective we desperately need to find hope and empathy in our divided world.

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  Bridge Across the Sky

  Bridge Across the Sky is a powerful historical novel in verse that follows Tai Go, a Chinese teenager who immigrates to the United States with his family, only to face harsh realities at Angel Island Immigration Station. As they endure racism, humiliating medical exams, and interrogations under the Chinese Exclusion Act, Tai Go experiences the…

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  Kill Her Twice

  Kill Her Twice by the bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl is a gripping YA murder mystery set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown. When the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—discover the body of their former classmate and silver screen star Lulu Wong, they immediately suspect foul play. As the police and press show little interest…

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  Everything We Never Had

  Everything We Never Had by the author of Patron Saints of Nothing is a powerful, multi-generational novel exploring the complexities of Filipino American identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships. Spanning nearly a century, the story follows four generations of the Maghabol family. From Francisco’s struggles as a Filipino laborer in 1930s California to his son Emil’s…

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  Learning the Traditions of Chuseok Video

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  The Making of Yolanda La Bruja

  Race, social justice, spirituality, and gun violence are addressed through the eyes of Yolanda, a deaf, gay protagonist who is gifted with the ability to read people’s intentions. Her family ancestry is of Brujas (witches). Can she save her school from a violent attack with her powers?