Malinda Lo
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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2020-03 - When Disaster Strikes
2020-04 - Medical Thrillers
2022 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
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2020-04 - Medical Thrillers
2022 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
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Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Language
English
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
GPLD Winter Favorites Young Adult 22-23
YA Summertime Reading
GPLD Winter Favorites Young Adult 22-23
YA Summertime Reading
Description
"Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed...
3) Ash
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
4) Huntress
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death"--
6) Adaptation
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
7) Inheritance
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When teens Reese and David are kidnapped after revealing that they were adapted with alien DNA, Reese is forced to reconcile her new love for David, a human, with feelings for Amber, an Imrian, and make a world-changing choice.
9) Fresh ink
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--
11) All out
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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2020-03 - When Disaster Strikes
LGBTQIA Pride for Teens
LSS - Pride Teen Fiction
OBD Reading is Groovy - YOUTH
LGBTQIA Pride for Teens
LSS - Pride Teen Fiction
OBD Reading is Groovy - YOUTH
Description
From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, this collection of short stories crosses cultures and time periods to shed light on a world where queer figures live, love and shape the world round them.
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A duchess's beauty matched only by her cunning; her husband's dangerous affair with a handsome scholar; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius on the brink of revolution-. Suddenly long-buried lies threaten to come to light and betrayal and treachery run rampant in this story of sparkling wit and political intrigue."--Amazon.com.