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Long Way Home by Melissa Hart Romero

Melissa Hart Romero | Long Way Home | When Veronica’s mother, Maggie, comes out and leaves her husband, she takes Veronica and her siblings with A powerful true story of finding truth and

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My Bicycle Trip by Monna L. Dingman

Monna L. Dingman | My Bicycle Trip | On a hundred-mile bike trip, Drew Collins leaves everything that hurts behind in a spray of dirt from a back tire. Amid the quiet laps of waves, a coo

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And Featuring Bailey Wellcom as the Biscuit by Margaret Durbin

Margaret Durbin | And Featuring Bailey Wellcom as the Biscuit | Twelve-year-old Bailey Wellcom thinks that life will be Snore City when she and her mother move from Phoenix, Arizona to the little village of Lucien,

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No matter what by Mary Saracino

Mary Saracino | No matter what | Ten-year-old Peanut, the oldest girl in a working class Catholic family, finds the burden of being her mother’s confidante too much when her mother, w

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Trying Hard to Hear You by Sandra Scoppettone

Sandra Scoppettone | Trying Hard to Hear You | Camilla is a 16-year-old citizen of the North Fork Long Island community. It is full of thinkers, right-wingers (see what I did there?) and racialized

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The Trouble With Emily Dickinson by Lyndsey D’Arcangelo

Lyndsey D’Arcangelo | The Trouble With Emily Dickinson | The Trouble with Emily Dickinson – by Lyndsey D’Arcangelo Josephine Jenkins, better known as JJ, is in her senior year at Sampson Academy. She’s a clo

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It’s Our Prom by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | It’s Our Prom | When Azure’s principal gives her the chance to turn the school’s traditional (and boring) senior prom into an event that will appeal to everyone, not

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Geography Club by Brent Hartinger

Brent Hartinger | Geography Club |

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he’s the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.

Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other th

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A House Like a Lotus by Madeleine L’Engle

Madeleine L’Engle | A House Like a Lotus | ‘Seventeen-year-old Polly can accept her dying patron’s lesbianism until Max, overcome by pain and alcohol, attempts to seduce her. While on a working

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Talk to Me by Carol Dines

Carol Dines | Talk to Me | Buoyant, poignant, absorbingly real, Carol Dines writes with humor and unflinching insight in six stories and a novella that capture many voices, amon