Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Woodfolk, Ashley 

Paperback(Versify)

BTSB #: 964319 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


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Summary: Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren't so easily tamed.

Queen of the tiles by Hanna Alkaf 

BTSB Prebound(Salaam Reads, 2022)

BTSB #: 051625 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.3 MG+ Lexile: 750 HL

Genres: Mystery Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Scrabble (Game) - Fiction Contests - Fiction Grief - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Malaysia - Fiction

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.

Right where I left you by Winters, Julian 

Paperback(Viking, 2023)

BTSB #: 956986 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 660 HL

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Gay teenagers - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Puerto Ricans - Fiction

Summary: The summer before he leaves for college, eighteen-year-old Isaac Martin makes big plans with his best friend Diego that only the reappearance of an old crush can derail.

Thousand steps into night by Chee, Traci 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2022)

BTSB #: 209405 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.2 UG

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Fantasy fiction Quests (Expeditions) - Fiction Blessings and curses - Fiction Metamorphosis - Fiction Demons - Fiction

Summary: When a girl, Miuko, who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within.

Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice by Smith, Tommie 

Paperback(Norton Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 827238 Temp OS

Dewey: 796.4209/AAges: 13-18   
AR: 5.9 UG

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Subjects: Smith, Tommie,|d1944- Olympic Games|n(19th :|d1968 : - Mexico City, Mexico) Track and field athletes - United States - Biography African American athletes - Biography African American athletes - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc

Summary: A groundbreaking and timely memoir in graphic novel format from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics.

We deserve monuments by Hammonds, Jas 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 416776 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5 UG

Genres: Family Life Mystery Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Racism - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decades-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.

Weight of blood by Jackson, Tiffany D. 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2022)

BTSB #: 485006 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5 UG

Genres: Multicultural Scary/Horror Stories

Subjects: Bullies - Fiction City and town life - Fiction Racism - Fiction High schools - Fiction Homicide - Fiction

Summary: An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. But when Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about the horror that happened on prom night, they all have one explanation . . . Maddy did it.

When the angels left the old country by Lamb, Sacha 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2022)

BTSB #: 538325 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6.8 UG

Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Angels - Fiction Demonology - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction United States - Immigration and emigration - Fiction

Summary: Uriel the angel and Little Ash the demon are the only two supernatural creatures in their small town. The search for a new life has drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way the angel and demon encounter humans in need of their help. But there are obstacles ahead of them as difficult as what they've left behind.

Words we keep by Stewart, Erin 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 854262 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 680 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mental illness - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Anxiety - Fiction

Summary: When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.