Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir by Ha, Robin 

Paperback(Harper Alley, 2020)

BTSB #: 408827 Available

Dewey: 305.9/AAges: 13-17   
AR: 3.4 MG+

Genres:

Subjects: Ha, Robin Korean American women cartoonists - Biography Korean American women illustrators - Biography Mother-daughter relationship - United States - Biography Teenage girls - United States - Biography Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc United States Korea (South)

Summary: A powerful and moving teen memoir in graphic novel format about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life.

Felix ever after by Callender, Kacen 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2021)

BTSB #: 183850 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Transgender people - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Revenge - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.

I'll Be The One by Lee, Lyla 

Paperback New title.(KATHERINE TEGEN BOOKS, 2020)

BTSB #: 556403 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
Lexile: 810

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Subjects:

Summary: Follows a plus-sized teenage girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition seeking the next big K-pop star.

I'll be the one by Lee, Lyla 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2020)

BTSB #: 556404 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 5.4 UG Lexile: 810

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Korean Americans - Fiction Obesity - Fiction Singing - Fiction Contests - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Follows a plus-sized teenage girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition seeking the next big K-pop star.

Light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgorska by Cameron, Sharon 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2021)

BTSB #: 184074 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.2 UG Lexile: 650 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Burzminski, Stefania Podgorska - Fiction Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust - Fiction Jews - Poland - Przemysl - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Przemysl (Poland) - History|y20th century - Fiction Poland - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgorska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.

Not so pure and simple by Giles, Lamar 

Paperback(HarperTeen, 2020)

BTSB #: 379233 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 4.9 UG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Christian life - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Family life - Virginia - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - Fiction

Summary: High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera.

Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2021)

BTSB #: 924644 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.7 UG Lexile: NP

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Artists - Fiction Race discrimination - Fiction Administration of criminal justice - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Novels in verse

Summary: Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy.

Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2020)

BTSB #: 924656 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.7 UG Lexile: NP

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Artists - Fiction Race discrimination - Fiction Administration of criminal justice - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Novels in verse

Summary: Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy.

This is my America by Johnson, Kim 

BTSB Prebound(Random House, 2020)

BTSB #: 496826 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.3 UG

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Racism - Fiction Judicial error - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Prisoners - Fiction Homicide - Fiction Family problems - Fiction

Summary: While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.