Black Love - Young Adult Fiction

Books from the young adult collection that highlight the spectrum of black love.

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Book cover for "The stars and the blackness between them"
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MC Rep: Black Trinidadian lesbian female x Black lesbian female
Description:
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.

42. Swing

Book cover for "Swing"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything.
Book cover for "The taking of Jake Livingston"
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3.8 stars
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MC Rep: Black biracial gay male; Black gay LI
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"When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game"--
Book cover for "This is kind of an epic love story"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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MC Rep: Black bisexual male; Latinx gay male LI who is Heard of Hearing
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Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
Book cover for "The voting booth"
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4 stars
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The first year they're eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.
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MC Rep: Black butch lesbian female; biracial (half-Black, half-white) lesbian female LI
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Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann's offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the girls are brought together...
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"She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David, her awful ex. But when the future of Grandeur nears the...
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5 stars
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Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like paradise is starting to feel more like purgatory. It's been two years since Reyna's mother passed away, two years since Aiden--her childhood best friend, first kiss, first love, first everything--left the island to pursue his music dreams.
Book cover for "Zyla & Kai"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, and break up unfolds from their different perspectives.