Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum, 2022)

BTSB #: 748298 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   
AR: 5.2 UG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Freedom - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need.

Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by Kimmerer, Robin Wall 

Paperback(Zest Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 518309 Available

Dewey: 305.8/NAges: 12-18   
Lexile: 980

Genres:

Subjects: Kimmerer, Robin Wall Native American philosophy Ethnoecology Nature. - Philosophy Human ecology - Philosophy Nature - Effect of human beings on Human-plant relationship Botany - Philosophy Potawatomi Indians - Biography Potawatomi Indians - Social life and customs

Summary: Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.

I must betray you by Sepetys, Ruta 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 800253 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.3 UG Lexile: 500 HL

Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction

Subjects: Spies - Fiction Family life - Romania - Fiction Dictatorship - Fiction Revolutions - Fiction Romania - History|y1989, Revolution - Fiction Bucharest (Romania) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.

Life and crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Blum, Isaac 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel, 2022)

BTSB #: 128741 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
Lexile: 760

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Jews - Fiction Antisemitism - Fiction Multiculturalism - Fiction Love - Fiction Conflict management - Fiction

Summary: As his community turns against him for siding with the mayor who wants to push their community out, Orthodox Jew Hoodie finds himself caught between his first love, the mayor's daughter, and the only world he's ever known.

Man made monsters by Rogers, Andrea L. 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2022)

BTSB #: 762076 Available

Dewey: 808/SAges: 12-18   
AR: 5.4 UG

Genres:

Subjects: Cherokee Indians - Fiction Monsters - Fiction Horror fiction Short stories Cherokee Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction

Summary: Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.

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.

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

Paperback(Norton Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 827238 Available

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

Genres:

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.

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.