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• Firebreak

  Phillips, Jennifer, 1962-

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  An insecure teen turns into a reluctant activist after realizing her beloved grandmother is being threatened by an elderly genocide in the making. This page-turner weaves together an exploration of family and friendships with civil rights, mob…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eyes Open

  Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, 1956-

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  Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sâonia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.

• Unbecoming

  a Novel & Self-help Guide

  Yasmin, Seema, 1982-

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  Their bodies. Their choice. Their friendship. Their fight. When America bans all abortion and the fight for bodily autonomy is taken underground, Laylah and Noor want to be part of the resistance. After graduation, Laylah plans to become an OB-GYN,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Don't Have Time for This

  Craft, Brianna,

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  Isa Brown wishes her life would slow down. She doesn't want to leave for college. Not now that her dad finally gets to spend some time at home. Not now that she's finally been in one place for longer than a year. But nothing lasts forever. With…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Does My Body Offend You?

  Cuevas, Mayra,

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  When Malena Rosario goes to school bra-less after a bad sunburn, she is humiliated by the administration for the Florida high school into covering up. Ruby McAllister has a reputation as her school's outspoken feminist rebel, and is not willing to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Even When Your Voice Shakes

  Goka, Ruby Yayra,

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  When Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends, she knows she has to accept. Her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Kids

  Hammonds Reed, Christina,

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  With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.

• Kent State

  Wiles, Deborah,

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  May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why.Told in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is My America

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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  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.

• The Voting Booth

  Colbert, Brandy,

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  Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first election? Duke Crenshaw is so done with this election. He just wants to get voting over with so he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not From Here

  Torres Sanchez, Jenny,

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  Three teenage immigrants risk the trip from Guatemala through Mexico to the United States southern border in search of a better life.

• Yes No Maybe So

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate--as long as he's behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let's face it, speaking at all to almost anyone) Jamie's a choke artist. There's no way…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Internment

  Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer),

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  In a terrifying, futuristic United Sates, Muslim Americans are forced into internment camps, and 17-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.

• Watch Us Rise

  Watson, Renée,

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  Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission-they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work-poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take the Mic

  Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance

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  You might be the kind of person who stands up to online trolls. Or who marches to protest injustice. Perhaps you are #DisabledAndCute and dancing around your living room, alive and proud. Or perhaps you are the trans mentor that you wish you had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anger Is a Gift

  Oshiro, Mark,

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  Moss Jeffries is many things--considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else--someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tyler Johnson Was Here

  Coles, Jay,

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  When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom n this striking and heartbreaking debut novel, commenting on current race relations in America.

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

• Moxie

  Mathieu, Jennifer,

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  In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.