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• Finally Fitz

  Kanter, Marisa,

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  Heartbroken after her breakup with her girlfriend Dani, bisexual Fitz hatches a plan with childhood friend Levi to fake an online romance to make their exes jealous, which leads to unexpected real feelings as they navigate the complexities…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wilderness of Girls.

  Franklin, Madeline Claire,

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  An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and is swept up in the ensuing mystery: Are the Wild Girls of Happy Valley lost princesses from a faraway land, as they believe, or are they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diary of a Dying Girl

  Smith, Mallory,

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  This poignant — and powerful — collection of diary entries chronicles the author’s refusal to be defined by chronic illness, sharing her life in her own words to encourage everyone to live life to the fullest, as she did, even as she was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Nights and Meteorites

  Reynolds, Hannah, 1988-

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  Jordan Edelman, determined to avoid dating during her summer trip to Nantucket, finds herself entangled with her father's research assistant, whom she has disliked for years, but as she delves into a centuries-old mystery with a local…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Time and Time Again

  Greenfield, Chatham,

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  Living the same day over and over again, Phoebe is taken out of her comfort zone and falls deeper in love with childhood crush Jess when he comes crashing into the time loop.

• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Artifice

  Cameron, Sharon, 1970-

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  Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eight Dates and Nights

  Aldredge, Betsy,

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  Teens Hannah and Noah, who each have different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah, team up to save the last Jewish remnant in small-town Texas.

• Facing the Enemy

  How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship ; a Novel in Verse

  Krasner, Barbara,

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  In 1930s Newark, NJ, best friends Tommy and Benny are torn apart when Tommy attends a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, and Benjy forms an anti-Nazi vigilante group.

• Imogen, Obviously

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Pretending to be her queer best friend Lili's former girlfriend, heterosexual Imogen Scott spends a lot of time with Lili's friend Tessa and starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with.

• Going Bicoastal

  Adler, Dahlia,

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  Told in alternating timelines, Jewish 17-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Ship It

  Kay, Lauren,

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  The last thing highly organized Olivia Schwartz wants to do the summer before her senior year of high school is go on a cruise with her parents and younger brothers, so when Olivia meets charming, exciting Sebastian, she feels like she can…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl

  Shrum, Brianna R.,

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  Margo, who suddenly realizes that she's gay but has no clue how to express her identity, enlists out-and-proud Abbie to act as her tutor on everything "Queer 101"...and first love.

• A Warning About Swans

  Romero, R. M. (Rachael Maria), 1987-

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  Swan maiden Hilde sacrifices her magical wings to seek freedom in the human world, but when her pact with an upstart baron takes her to the court of Ludwig II, she struggles to fit in, and only Jewish artist Franz, who has the power to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Last Shot

  the Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro

  Wilson, Kip,

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  Tells the story of Gerda Taro, a headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat.

• Lion's Legacy

  Rosen, Lev AC,

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  After discovering that his boyfriend has been cheating on him and all his friends know about it, Tennessee Russo accepts an offer from his father--a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity he hasn't seen in two years--to accompany…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just a Hat

  Khubiar, S.,

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  In 1979 Texas, 13-year-old Joseph Nissan struggles to trust others and stay true to himself when the Iran hostage crisis, two neighborhood bullies, and the local reverend’s beautiful daughter put him in danger, until he discovers he’s not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Canto of the Dead

  Older, Daniel José,

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  Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as 16-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.

• When the Angels Left the Old Country

  Lamb, Sacha,

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  When a young emigrant from their tiny village goes missing while heading to America, angel Uriel and demon Little Ash set off to find her and encounter many humans in need of their help as they face obstacles ahead of them as difficult as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eight Nights of Flirting

  Reynolds, Hannah, 1988-

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  Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.