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Devoted

Jennifer Mathieu · 336 pages

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I Am Not Esther

Fleur Beale · 185 pages

A young girl is left by her mother with relatives she's never met who are members of a strict religious cult. Her name is changed to the biblical Esther, and she is forced to follow the severe set of social codes of the order. Soon, Esther begins to lose her own identity.

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Burned

Ellen Hopkins · 544 pages

NY Times bestseller, is the story of a young woman, struggling to find her place in the world in the face of abuse by the person she most adores: her father. She questions her family, her faith, and her ability to love and be loved. Suspended from school, she is sent to rural Nevada to live with an aunt whom she barely knows. There she finds love, acceptance and new knowledge about the things t

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The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

Stephanie Oakes · 406 pages

The Kevinian Cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something about what happened that night. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she relives the events that led to

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

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(Un)arranged Marriage

Bali Rai · 272 pages

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Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

G. Willow Wilson · 120 pages

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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas · 458 pages

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter navigates between the poverty-stricken neighborhood she has grown up in and the upper-crust suburban prep school she attends. Her life is up-ended when she is the sole witness to a police officer shooting her best friend, Khalil, who turns out to have been unarmed during the confrontation – but may or may not have been a drug dealer. As Starr finds herself even more t

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Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 192 pages

A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+ Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Star

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare · 249 pages

Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is

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South of Sunshine

Dana Elmendorf · 254 pages

Kaycee Jean McCoy hides the fact that she's gay from her small southern town of Sunshine, Tennessee. But when Bren Dawson moves to town, she's forced to decide between love or giving in to the social prejudice of her town.

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Bitter Melon

Cara Chow · 309 pages

Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent. Frances, a Chinese American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she become a doctor w

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Allegiant

Veronica Roth · 526 pages

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's

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Playing Nice

Rebekah Crane · 262 pages

"It's Marty's junior year at Minster High. Minster's a small town where making great grades, smiling pretty, helping old people, running the new-student Welcoming Committee, and putting up decorations for all the dances--including the totally awful Hot Shot fall hunting celebration--gets you ... what? Marty's not sure. Instead of dreaming about a sororities-and-frats future at nearby University of

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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Marjane Satrapi · 187 pages

187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmGN500L Lexile

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Saints and Misfits

S.K. Ali · 328 pages

Janna Yusuf knows a lot of people can t figure out what to make of her an Arab Indian-American hijabi teenager who is a Flannery O Connor obsessed book nerd, aspiring photographer, and sometime graphic novelist is not exactly easy to put into a box. And Janna suddenly finds herself caring what people think. Or at least what a certain boy named Jeremy thinks. Not that she would ever date him Muslim

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The Romance Reader

Pearl Abraham · 296 pages

A Jewish girl's struggle to gain independence from her ultra-orthodox parents. She is Rachel who wants to be like other girls, wear seamless stockings, not have to cover her bathing suit, speak English and have a library card so she can read romances. Rachel is one of six children and her modern ways spoil her brother's marriage prospects.

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Like No Other

Una LaMarche · 347 pages

Though their relationship is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jax arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. But how far can they possibly go? Just how much are they willing to give up? Devorah has never challenged her strict Hasidic upbringing, and Jaxon has never been comfortable around girls, but when they meet by chance, everything changes. The plot contains mild profanity and

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Emily M. Danforth · 480 pages

In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

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The Latte Rebellion

Sarah Jamila Stevenson · 328 pages

When high school senior Asha Jamison is called a "towel head" at a pool party, she and her best friend Carey start a club to raise awareness of mixed-race students that soon sweeps the country, but the hubbub puts her Ivy League dreams, friendship, and beliefs to the test.

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The Chosen One

Carol Lynch Williams · 213 pages

In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.

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Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

Hannah has big plans for senior year: football games, Mardi Gras parties, and spring break on the beach with her tight-knit group of friends. No drama, no detours. Just a year to remember. Falling for another girl—her best friend, Baker—was not part of the plan. Hannah knows she should date Wally, the earnest, dependable boy her sister is always teasing her about. She should be happy when Cl

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The Wave

Morton Rhue, Todd Strasser · 130 pages

A dramatization of an actual classroom experiment in establishing a fascist society. In this account, Laurie tries to persuade Mr. Ross to call off the experiment.

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