Juvenile fiction 
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From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
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Seeds of America trilogy volume 1.
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4.7 stars
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After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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Legacy of Orisha volume 1.
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4.5 stars
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Dread nation volume 1.
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3.9 stars
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When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
5. Fireborne
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Aurelian cycle volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power.
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4.5 stars
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"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
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4.7 stars
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"Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
8. Slay
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4.1 stars
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An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.
9. What I carry
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5 stars
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"In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system"--