Grade Level: High School
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Deep Dive: Tanabata Star Festival
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Fitting Indian
This highschool graphic novel shines a light on how harmful the stigma of mental illness is and how lifesaving a community that is honest about mental health can be. All Nitasha’s parents want is for her to be the perfect Indian daughter. Everything she does seems to disappoint them, especially her mom. They just don’t…
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Everything We Never Had
Four generations of boys in a Filipino-American family deal with prejudice, and family issues. Francisco, a migrant farm worker, organizes the farm workers in his area. Emil refuses to follow in the footsteps of his labor organizer father, Francisco, and is determined to make it on his own. Chris is determined to prove that his…
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Tall Water
Nimmi wants to travel to Sri Lanka to confront the mother who refused to leave the island during a war. Her father is going back for the first time as a reporter on assignment, but he refuses to take her, because Sri Lanka is too dangerous. Nimmi buys her own ticket for her father’s flight.…
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Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what it’s like to be a part of two different worlds but never feeling as though you belong to either. Christine decides to…
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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.