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• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  The Hate U Give follows teenager Starr after her childhood friend Khalil is killed by a police officer. Starr struggles to balance the trauma of witnessing the shooting with finding her place in both her primarily Black neighborhood and her mostly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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• Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  Albertalli, Becky

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  Simon is falling in love with Blue over email. He knows they go to school together, but they're both in the closet so he has no idea which of his classmates might be the boy he wants to date.

• Love, Simon

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  Film adaptation of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

• Monster

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

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  Monster tells the story of Steve Harmon, a 16 year old accused of acting as an accessory to murder. As the justice system works around him, each person twisting things to serve their own needs, Steve (an aspiring filmmaker) begins to tell his story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To All the Boys I've Loved Before

  Han, Jenny,

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  To All the Boys I've Loved Before follows Lara Jean as she tries to deal with the fact that all the private letters she's written to secret crushes over the years have been mailed. Movie available on Netflix.

• All the Bright Places

  Niven, Jennifer,

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  Theodore is fascinated by death and struggles with suicidal thoughts. Violet is haunted by grief following her sisters death. Both teens want nothing more to escape and as they start to get to know each other they find that their relationship might…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stargirl

  Spinelli, Jerry

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  When Stargirl first enters public school after 15 years of homeschooling, her quirky and effusive personality makes her someone everybody wants to know. But as the students start to realize how different she is from them, her status plummets.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between Shades of Gray

  Sepetys, Ruta

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  Lina, her mother, and her brother are separated from her father by Soviet soldiers and sent to a work camp in Siberia. In this harsh new reality, Lina uses art to comfort herself.

• Ashes in the Snow

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  Film adaptation of Between Shades of Gray.

• The Fault in Our Stars

  Green, John, 1977-

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  This tearjerker romance follows the relationship between two chronically ill teens.

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• Everything, Everything

  Yoon, Nicola,

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  Madeline is severely immuno-compromised. She's basically allergic to the world, and hasn't left her house in 15 years. But when a new boy named Olly moves in next door and she starts to develop a crush on him, Madeline begins to question the rules…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus,

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  Narrated by Death, this WWII novel follows a young girl in Nazi Germany as she begins to understand the truth and tragedy of the world she is living in.

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• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  Charlie, the protagonist of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, deals with a series of relatable teenage rites of passages like parties, first loves, and new friendships. But Charlie also struggles to come to terms with serious incidents from his past…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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• The Princess Diaries

  Cabot, Meg

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  Mia has always been a totally average teenager: she has great friends but isn't popular, she loves writing but is nearly failing math, and she wants nothing more than to finally get her first kiss. But her whole life is flipped upside down when she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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