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Read 106k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a pass...

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Also this instead of Exit Pursued by a Bear - same topic, better book in my opinion

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All the Rage has 10,202 ratings and 2,006 reviews. Navessa said: TRIGGER WARNING: RAPEI mean it. This is the most visceral reaction to a book that I ha...

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This is a collection of short stories, each written by a different author. It's fantastic! One of my favorites, and a great way to get to know the styles of several GN authors.

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The Mystery Boxes has 5,129 ratings and 445 reviews. Jesse (JesseTheReader) said: Wow! I really enjoyed this. It was my first graphic novel anthology and...

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I cannot wait for this movie to come out!!

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Ready Player One has 536,841 ratings and 65,148 reviews. Kemper said: I originally gave this book 3 stars as harmless lightweight fun, but my opinion of ...

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I really liked The Authentics. I learned the difference between Iranian and Persian. It's also a good look at personal identity as well.

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The Authentics has 387 ratings and 110 reviews. Lola said: 3 1/2 stars. I don't remember ever reading a novel about an Iranian American heroine and I've ...

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I loved Isabel Quintero's unique voice and Gabi is a very relatable character.

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This is on my TBR list and could also pass for book v movie.

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Read 98.2k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here IN THE YEAR 2044, realit...

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Piecing Me Together

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It's Not Like It's a Secret by Misa Suguira, could also be LGBTQ (plus the romance didn't interest me as much) but I like it better as cultural, especially when it comes to racism within non-white communities and the traditions in Sana's family.

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It's Not Like It's a Secret has 1,565 ratings and 331 reviews. Laura said: I made the mistake of thinking this was just a contemporary romance between tw...

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How to Make a Wish for LGBTQ. There aren't enough books with f/f relationships. I also think that it's nice to include books with bi characters and books that aren't just a coming out story.

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How to Make a Wish has 1,277 ratings and 378 reviews. Lola said: 3.5 stars.It's very early for me to post my review of this book, seeing that it comes ...

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Of Fire and Stars. I don't care for fantasy, but I have a few fantasy recommendations. I instantly loved this one. There are queer princesses (okay, most of my recommendations are also LGBTQ but I like what I like), magic, and horses.

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Of Fire and Stars has 4,094 ratings and 1,060 reviews. Emily May said: Let's start with the positive: there's an LGBT romance. And also there's... er, no...

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Set at the very end of the 1800s, Jackaby is the first book of a series. It's described as Dr. Who vs. Sherlock, but I never got into this. Jackaby is a strange man who can see auras and supernatural creatures in an otherwise normal world. Abigail wants to be an archeologist and runs away to America where she meets him and becomes his assistant. It's a supernatural/paranormal thing set in the past (but it doesn't feel like historical fiction).

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"Miss Rook, I am not an occultist," Jackaby said. "I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are...

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I don't remember if This One Summer was on the original list. I liked it though.

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Read 7,861 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their ...

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I was between two Farizan titles and went with If You Could Be Mine over Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, simply because I think the former explores the culture more.

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If You Could Be Mine has 6,298 ratings and 979 reviews. Giselle said: This was very different from anything I've read before. A very short book at only a...

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A magical retelling of Snow White where the stepmother doesn't hate the stepdaughter just because she's beautiful. The characters are also smart and well developed. Zero dwarves.

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Girls Made of Snow and Glass has 2,925 ratings and 937 reviews. Lola said: Like no fairytale retelling I have read before.Snow White is my least favour...

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I think Dear Martin is a good companion to The Hate U Give. It's a shorter read, but the themes are very similar (black student in a very white, rich school, struggling with the recent news of black kids being shot by police). I wouldn't suggest replacing THUG with this, but I like it as an offering. The audio book is also great!

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Read 11.3k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds an...

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Speak is a graphic novel now. I haven't gotten around to reading it, but I loved the original book (and basically everything Laurie Halse Anderson has written), so I'm dying to get my hands on this.

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The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel. "Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment o...

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The Last Boy and Girl in the World has 2,956 ratings and 598 reviews. Lala said: I really don't know why people have been rating this book so low. Our ma...

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One of my favorite graphic novels! Could also be used for the book v. movie.

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Coraline has 17,458 ratings and 1,524 reviews. When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar t...

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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)

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Read 57.1k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B01M98J44U. --- One of Us Is Lying is the sto…

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Read 2,069 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet abov...

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"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and W...

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I did Solo for my audiobook but I went back and read it; great verse novel.

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Read 2,330 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. When the heart gets lost, let the music find you. Blade never asked for a life of the r...

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This one has gotten a lot of buzz, and I think it's so good. (I just finished listening to it and back and read it - it's also a phenomenal audiobook). This is such a good Verse recommendation as well as multicultural.

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Read 20.6k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this aston...

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Throne of Glass has 385,495 ratings and 32,249 reviews. Kitten said: Are you kidding me? What the hell is this shit? How do you screw up your story quite...

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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Edu…

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I come from a country that was created at midnight. Whe…

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Tease has 5,092 ratings and 836 reviews. Emily May said: Ignore the rating.This book was almost impossible to rate due to the amount of thoughts - both...

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Orphan Train is an unfortunate train wreck of generic, formulaic, historical fiction plotting and all the subtlety and nuance of a Mack truck. It's got a great premise - the orphan trains were a real part of American history. Orphaned children were loaded up on trains by well-intentioned Children's Aid workers and marched off at various stops in the midwest and west where families would look them over and decide whether to keep them as foster children or eventually adopt them. It's not too much of a stretch to figure out how many were treated.

And that's about all that is good about this book. Both the present day story and the historical story both suffer from ridiculous cardboard characters and plot situations that are entirely predictable and cliched. 2 stars only for the setting and the potential of the book. Goodreads needs half stars to more accurately rate books.

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Read 31.9k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780061950728, found here. The author of Bir...

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Read 4,613 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. For fans of Raina Telgemeier’s Smile, a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and …

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All But My Life has 15,324 ratings and 931 reviews. Heidi said: I should probably start out by saying that I'm not totally obsessed with WWII, Holocaust,...

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The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)

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The Girl of Fire and Thorns has 65,870 ratings and 6,407 reviews. Shannon said: If you caught even just a couple of my updates I think it would've been p...

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Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)

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Serafina and the Black Cloak has 17,101 ratings and 2,788 reviews. Lola said: One thing's for sure: this book can make an interesting Halloween read for ...

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"You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can s...

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Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's cl...

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Undead Girl Gang: "Mila Flores and her best friend Riley have always been inseparable. There's not much excitement in their small town of Cross Creek, so Mila and Riley make their own fun, devoting most of their time to Riley's favorite activity: amateur witchcraft.

So when Riley and two Fairmont Academy mean girls die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone's explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Instead, armed with a tube of lip gloss and an ancient grimoire, Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life." (I know, I know, I tried to pitch this one for the "Whole Class Read", but I do genuinely think that it would be an interesting addition to this section; also, I took the synopsis from Goodreads.)

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“The Ancient Magus' Bride is an all-new manga series that features a fascinating relationship between a troubled teenage girl and an inhuman wizard.

Enter the Magician's Apprentice

Her name is Chise Hatori, a penniless orphan troubled by visions. Sold as a slave to an inhuman mage, she is about to begin a strange new life, filled with magic, fairies, and other beings of a fantastical nature.”

(This manga series began in 2015, but I didn’t start reading it until 2016 and I’ve been following the story since then. Also, synopsis for this manga was taken from Amazon.)

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This book follows the events that led up to a character's disappearance and then follows the podcaster who's covering her story, so this would be great for realistic fiction, because there are so many true crime podcasts out there that millions listen to.

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National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature

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The Last Wish Of Sasha Cade by Cheyanne Young

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The Last Wish Of Sasha Cade by Cheyanne Young

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Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saen

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Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saen

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John Greene

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Read 176k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has ne...

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Read 1,944 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, fifteen-year-old Amari has only one…

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This would really make for great discussion as a whole class read. This book is about friendship, but also about  mental illness  as the novel presents the constraints of  OCD which is presented in an authentic, but not limiting manner through Green's use of narrative.

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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

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They are also making this into a movie in upcoming years!!! It is one of my absolute favorite books. Set on a different planet, it shows how colonialism and propaganda can control a society. -- Christine

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The notorious Benedict Arnold : a true story of adventure, heroism, & treachery

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The notorious Benedict Arnold : a true story of adventure, heroism, & treachery

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Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood (YA edition)

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Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood (YA edition)

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What about a YA Western category? That feels niche and I don't know any aside from Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

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What about a YA Western category? That feels niche and I don't know any aside from Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

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Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Possible HBO release date in May?

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Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Possible HBO release date in May?

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YES, yes it is. I found this out when I flirted with it then asked it out on a date and got shot down in flames. I'm hoping for better luck withYES, yes it is. I found this out when I flirted with it then asked it out on a date and got shot down in flames. I'm hoping for better luck with Pushing Ice by Alastair REYNOLDS, but Shogun has shown some interest. .. 🍀 ...more

(by the way. I am in no way making fun of you, Caitlyn or anyone LGBTQ or straight. I just found the comment by Elias to be ROTFFLMFAO HILARIOUS and could not resist adding a comment of my own .... I at least hope SOMEONE got a laugh 😂 out of it!) (less)

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Nenia ⚡ Aspiring Evil Overlord ⚡ Campbell

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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)

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YES, yes it is. I found this out when I flirted with it then asked it out on a date and got shot down in flames. I'm hoping for better luck withYES, yes it is. I found this out when I flirted with it then asked it out on a date and got shot down in flames.

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This book markets itself as an LGBTQ book, but it is really not. The main character is trans, but the book doesn't do anything about it. It mentionsThis book markets itself as an LGBTQ book, but it is really not. The main character is trans, but the book doesn't do anything about it. It mentions it in a chapter, and it doesn't come up for the rest of the book. CloneCommando559...more (less)

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Nenia ⚡ Aspiring Evil Overlord ⚡ Campbell

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Kathryn Speckels (Metaphors and Miscellanea)

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This book markets itself as an LGBTQ book, but it is really not. The main character is trans, but the book doesn't do anything about it. It mentionsThis book markets itself as an LGBTQ book, but it is really not. The main character is trans, but the book doesn't do anything about it.

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I agree with Pop Culture Nerd, above, but wanted to add to that.I agree with Pop Culture Nerd, above, but wanted to add to that.

Thi is pronounced like Tee but the 'h' sound is still there adding to the sound. There is no 'th' sound in Vietnamese. So it is somewhere between the English words tee and he.

Bui is easier, the 'u' in Vietnamese is a short oo sound. So, it is pronounced like buoy. (less)
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I agree with Pop Culture Nerd, above, but wanted to add to that.I agree with Pop Culture Nerd, above, but wanted to add to that. Thi is pronounced like Tee but the 'h' sound is still there adding to the sound. There is no 'th' sound in Vietnamese.

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A 2020 Printz Honor Book

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*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review*

In this world, giant water serpents called Toda are trained to fight in the royal army and protect the country's border. The defending kingdom is protected by giant bird like creatures they call the Royal Beasts. Neither country realizes the suffering they cause these animals. A young girl named Elin is orphaned...more

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The Beast Player (The Beast Player, #1-2)

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Want to see more bookish things from me? Check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfer... *I received this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review* In this world, giant water serpents called Toda are trained to fight in the royal army and protect the country's border.

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The Nickel Boys for Historical Fiction category

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The Nickel Boys for Historical Fiction category

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It was on the Alex Award list in our last live class (for adult books that appeal to teen readers) and it is a really good historical fiction that isn't too long and has a good/sad twist at the end that I did not see coming. I just recommended it recently to a friend who teaches HS American History, actually.

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WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE

WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020

" A necessary read." -President Barack Obama

"This is a powerful book by one of America's great writers. . . . Without sentimentality, in as intense and finely crafted a book as you'll ever read, Whitehead tells a story of American history that won't allow you to see the country in the same way again." - Toronto Star

" Colson Whitehead continues to make a classic American genre his own. . . . The narration is disciplined and the sentences plain and sturdy, oars cutting into water. Every chapter hits its marks. . . . Whitehead comports himself with gravity and care, the steward of painful, suppressed histories; his choices on the page can feel as much ethical as aesthetic. The ordinary language, the clear pane of his prose, lets the stories speak for themselves. . . . Whitehead has written novels of horror and apocalypse; nothing touches the grimness of the real stories he conveys here" - The New York Times

"Inspired by a real school in Florida, The Nickel Boys is a haunting narrative that reinforces Whitehead's prowess as a leading voice in American literature." -
"[ The Nickel Boys] should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best." - Entertainment Weekly

"Were Whitehead's only aim to shine an unforgiving light on a redacted chapter of racial terrorism in the American chronicle, that would be achievement enough. What he is doing in his new novel, as in its immediate predecessor, is more challenging than that. . . . He applies a master storyteller's muscle. . . . The elasticity of time in The Nickel Boys feels so organic that only when you put the book down do you fully appreciate that its sweep encompasses much of the last century as well as this one. . . . A writer like Whitehead, who challenges the complacent assumption that we even fathom what happened in our past, has rarely seemed more essential." - The New York Times Book Review

"A masterpiece squared, rooted in history and American mythology and, yet, painfully topical in its visions of justice and mercy erratically denied . . . a great American novel." -Maureen Corrigan, NPR.org

"Whitehead's brilliant examination of America's history of violence is a stunning novel of impeccable language and startling insight." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Whitehead's magnetic characters exemplify stoicism and courage, and each supremely craftedscene smolders and flares with injustice and resistance, building to a staggering revelation. Inspired by an actual school, Whitehead's potently concentrated drama pinpoints the brutality and insidiousness of Jim Crow racism with compassion and protest. . . . A scorching work." -Booklist, starred review

"[A] stunning new novel. . . . The understated beauty of his writing, combined with the disquieting subject matter, creates a kind of dissonance that chills the reader. Whitehead has long had a gift for crafting unforgettable characters, and Elwood proves to be one of his best. . . . The final pages of the book are a heartbreaking distillation of the story that preceded them; it's a perfect ending to a perfect novel. The Nickel Boys is a beautiful, wrenching act of witness, a painful remembrance of an 'infinite brotherhood of broken boys,' and it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Whitehead is one of the most gifted novelists in America today." -NPR

" Magnificent. . . . Whitehead's prose is meticulous; he nimbly shifts between the 1960s and present day, creating a fully fleshed-out picture of violence and (in)justice." - Buzzfeed

"Colson Whitehead's follow-up to The Underground Railroad is devastating and powerful, a harrowing novelization on another dark aspect of American history. . . . Never didactic, but always illuminating-even in those darkest of places in our collective story- The Nickel Boys is a brilliant, horrifying look into the legacy of Jim Crow, and the ways in which racism and oppression don't exist in defiance to the American Dream, but rather as its fuel." - NYLON

"[ The Nickel Boys's] dialogue, the efficient character sketches and the unobtrusive but always-advancing plot are evidence of mature ability . . . spry and animated and seamed with dark humor . . . [with] a dazzling final twist that Mr. Whitehead stages with such casual skill that one only begins to unpack its meanings well after the book has ended. . . . The excellence of The Nickel Boys carries an added feeling of hope because it's evidence of a gradual, old-fashioned artistic progression that fewer and fewer writers are allowed the time to pursue. . . . The Nickel Boys demonstrate the versatile gifts of a writer who is rounding into mastery. The impression left is that Mr. Whitehead can succeed at any kind of book he takes on. He has made himself one of the finest novelists in America." - The Wall Street Journal

"Whitehead's new novel . . . is in many ways a continuation of his reassessment of African American history. But The Nickel Boys is no mere sequel . . . it's a surprisingly different kind of novel. . . . Whitehead reveals the clandestine atrocities of Nickel Academy with just enough restraint to keep us in a state of wincing dread. . . . It shreds our easy confidence in the triumph of goodness and leaves in its place a hard and bitter truth about the ongoing American experiment." - The Washington Post

"Again [Whitehead is] wrestling with American history's reverberations. . . . Since its moral concern is multigenerational anguish, the sense of mourning in The Nickel Boys is subvisceral-not detached, but restrained. . . . We are called to remember, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'" - O: The Oprah Magazine

"Possibly the single most anticipated novel of the year." - Los Angeles Times

"A powerful meditation on suffering and injustice. . . . His subject could not be more demanding, but Whitehead's writing is spare and stately. He handles Elwood's and Turner's suffering-and questions-gently. And he holds the reader carefully. . . . For the darkest of tales, that is the most a writer can do." - Winnipeg Free Press

"Whitehead's signature knack for creating unforgettable characters and spinning compelling stories out of even the darkest places is on display once again-and while it's not always an easy story to read, we'd venture to say it's essential." - Town and Country

"If you thought Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad was a tour de force, wait until you get your hands on The Nickel Boys." - Harper's Bazaar

" The Nickel Boys is straight-ahead realism, distinguished by its clarity and its open conversation with other black writers: It quotes from or evokes the work of Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and more. Whitehead has made an overt bid to stand in their company-to write a novel that's memorable, and teachable, for years to come. The Nickel Boys is its fulfilment." - USA Today

" The Nickel Boys is a strictly realist work, albeit still ripe with Whitehead's signature deadpan wit. . . . The heart of The Nickel Boys is this extended dialogue between Elwood and Turner . . . [and] often feels like Whitehead's conversation with both the idealistic forerunners of the civil rights generation and, by implication, the woke youth of today. Like perhaps his single greatest influence, Ralph Ellison, Whitehead negotiates a tightrope walk between the need to depict the experience of race and racism and a stubborn individualistic resistance to the claims of collective identity." - Slate

"[Whitehead's] prose here is elegant yet straightforward . . . these short sentences spur the action on, creating a pace that's almost as breath-taking as the novel's depiction of cruelty. . . . Whitehead's novel is certainly revelatory, but more for the ways in which it traces these atrocities to the past and present, weaving tragedy into multiple lifetimes. The Nickel Boys isn't just a testament to systemic racism; it's an archaeology of pain." - A.V. Club

"[ The Nickel Boys is] a marvellous play between the real situation and a novelistic artifice-one which, in the end, proves to be inherent in the human story. . . . This is a heartbreakingly good novel. Its excellence doesn't lie in the attitude it takes to a social problem. . . . Rather, this is a book which should last because of the elegant refinement of its treatment, and the harmonious and deeply affecting balance it strikes between real-life conditions, and the requirements of the finest and most penetrating art." - The Spectator

"[A] remarkable novel." -Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Bad Feminist

"A gripping and brilliant novel based on a true story about a boys' reformatory school in Florida in the 1960s. Whitehead is one of the most daring and gifted authors writing these days, and I will never miss one of his books." -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "[Whitehead] is a splendidly talented writer, with more range than any other American novelist currently working-he can be funny, lyrical, satirical, earnest-whatever is needed by the work." -George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo,

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize FINALIST 2019

National Book Critics Circle Awards FINALIST 2019

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WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 " A necessary read."

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No Summit out of Sight book. Read 370 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Jordan Romero climbed Mount Everest at age thirteen-and he ...

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My 8th Graders had to read it as their summer assigned reading. Most of them enjoyed the book, though they were a little put off by the very frank comMy 8th Graders had to read it as their summer assigned reading. Most of them enjoyed the book, though they were a little put off by the very frank commentary by the woman in regards to "growing up" female (I have boobs!; boycraziness). But, that is part of life, is it not? And that is a huge part of what makes this book so relevant and worth reading. There are two instances of "bull****" and a couple of times where variations of "pissed" are used. There was tremendous opportunity for conversation in regards to tragedy, "what ifs", the meaning of friendship, priorities, fear, etc. I could go on and on. ...more (less)

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DNF/set aside @ 30%

Meh. I might pick this back up and try it again soon. I mean, I probably will? It's just... *sigh* I really, really, really hate this love interest. I think he's toxic and gross and he's blackmailing Hope, and it's all icky and low-key ruining the vibe of the entire story for me.

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DNF/set aside @ 30% Meh. I might pick this back up and try it again soon. I mean, I probably will? It's just... *sigh* I really, really, really hate this love interest. I think he's toxic and gross and he's blackmailing Hope, and it's all icky and low-key ruining the vibe of the entire story for me.

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Graded By: Brian
Cover Story: Walk of Life
Drinking Buddy: Mixed Bag
MPAA Rating: Adult Situations, Sexuality, Some Violence, Alcohol and Tobacco Use
Talky Talk: Stunt Writing
Bonus Factors: Non Traditional Lifestyle, Juan Ponce de León
Bromance Status: Grandma's Boy

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This is older, but one of my favorite graphic novels. It blew me away and made me interested in the genre and the history.

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A New York Times Notable Book * A Time Magazine "Best Comix of the Year" * A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best Seller

"Delectable. . . Dances with drama and insouciant wit." - The New York Times Book Review

"A stunning graphic memoir hailed as a wholly original achievement in the form. There's still a startling freshness to the book. It won't age. In inky shadows and simple, expressive lines-reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans's "Madeline"-Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances . . . A stark, shocking impact." -Parul Sehgal, "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years" The New York Times

"A dazzlingly singular achievement. . . . Striking a perfect balance between the fantasies and neighborhood conspiracies of childhood and the mounting lunacy of Khomeini's reign, she's like the Persian love child of Spiegelman and Lynda Barry." -
"A brilliant and unusual graphic memoir. . . . [Told] in a guileless voice . . . accompanied by a series of black-and-white drawings that dramatically illustrate how a repressive regime deforms ordinary lives."-"Odds are, you'll be too busy being entertained to realize how much you've learned until you turn the last page."-"[A] self-portrait of the artist as a young girl, rendered in graceful black-and-white comics that apply a childlike sensibility to the bleak lowlights of recent Iranian history. . . . [Her] style is powerful; it persuasively communicates confusion and horror through the eyes of a precocious preteen." - Village Voice

"This is an excellent comic book, that deserves a place with Joe Sacco and even Art Spiegelman. In her bold black and white panels, Satrapi eloquently reasserts the moral bankruptcy of all political dogma and religious conformity; how it bullies, how it murders, and how it may always be ridiculed by individual rebellions of the spirit and the intellect." -Zadie Smith, author of The Autograph Manand White Teeth
You've never seen anything like Persepolis-the intimacy of a memoir, the irresistability of a comic book, and the political depth of a the conflict between fundamentalism and democracy. Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre." -Gloria Steinem

"I grew up reading the Mexican comics of Gabriel Vargas, graduated to the political teachings of Rius, fell under the spell of Linda Barry, Art Spiegelman, and now I am a fan of Marjane Satrapi. Her stories thrummed in my heart for days. Persepolis is part history book, part Scheherazade, astonishing as only true stories can be. I learned much about the history of Iran, but more importantly, it gave me hope for humanity in these unkind times." -Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo

"I thought [ Persepolis] was a superb piece of work, not only for the child's eye view-the developing child's eye view-of a society unknown to many of us in the west, and feared and suspected in proportion to being unknown.... Satrap has found a way of depicting human beings that is both simple and immediately comprehensible, AND is almost infinitely flexible. Anyone who's tried to draw a simplified version of a human face knows how immensely difficult it is not only to give the faces a range of expression, but also to maintain identities from one frame to the next. It's an enormous technical accomplishment." -Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.
"I cannot praise enough Marjane Satrapi's moving account of growing up as a spirited young girl in revolutionary and war-time Iran. Persepolis is disarming and often humorous but ultimately it is shattering." -Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and "This witty, moving and illuminating book demonstrates graphically why the future of Iran lies with neither the clerics nor the American Empire." -Tariq Ali, Author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
"I found the work immensely moving with depths of nuance and wisdom that one might never expect to find in a comic book. It's a powerful, mysterious, enchanting story that manages to reflect a great swath of Iranian contemporary history within the sensitive, intimate tale of a young girl's coming-of-age. I didn't want it to end!" -Diana Abu-Jaber, Author of Crescent and "A rare and chilling memoir that offers every reader a personal, honest portrait of Iran's recent political and cultural history. Ms. Satrapi's provocative, graphic narrative of life in Iran before and after the Islamic revolution is an extraordinary testament to the level of human suffering experienced by Iranians tossed from one political hypocrisy to another. Aside from the humanistic dimension, the beautifully minimalist Persepolis gives further evidence of Marjane Satrapi's sensitivity and superb skill as an artist." -Shirin Neshat, visual artist/filmmaker

"Readers who have always wanted to look beyond political headlines and CNN's cliches should plunge into this unique illustrated story. Let Marji be your trusted companion, follow her into the warmth of a Persian home and out along Tehran's turbulent streets during those heady days of revolution. Persepolis opens a rare door to understanding of events that still haunt America, while shining a bright light on the personal humanity and humor so much alive in Iranian families today." -Terence Ward, author of "Blending the historical with the personal is not an easy task, to blend the individual with the universal is even more challenging. But Marjane Satrapi has succeeded brilliantly. This graphic novel is a reminder of the human spirit that fights oppression and death, it is a witness to something true and lasting which is more affective than hundreds of news broadcasts." -Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Women of Sand and Myrhh

Alex Award - YALSA WINNER 2004

Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults WINNER

New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age WINNER

School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults WINNER

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER

The following pages are excerpted from Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Copyright © 2005 by Marjane Satrapi. Excerpted by permission of Pantheon, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

ON WRITING PERSEPOLIS
By Marjane Satrapi, as told to Pantheon staff

Chances are that if you are an American you know very little about the 1979 Iranian Revolution. "This revolution was normal, and it had to happen," says Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, a totally unique memoir about growing up in Iran after the Shah left power. "Unfortunately, it happened in a country where people were very traditional, and other countries only saw the religious fanatics who made their response public." In her graphic novel, Satrapi, shows readers that these images do not make up the whole story about Iran. Here, she talks freely about what it was like to tell this story with both words and pictures, and why she is so proud of the result.

Why I Wrote Persepolis

From the time I came to France in 1994, I was always telling stories about life in Iran to my friends. We'd see pieces about Iran on television, but they didn't represent my experience at all. I had to keep saying, "No, it's not like that there." I've been justifying why it isn't negative to be Iranian for almost twenty years. How strange when it isn't something I did or chose to be?

After I finished university, there were nine of us, all artists and friends, working in a studio together. That group finally said, "Do something with your stories." They introduced me to graphic novelists. Spiegelman was first. And when I read him, I thought "Jesus Christ, it's possible to tell a story and make a point this way." It was amazing.

Writing a Graphic Novel is Like Making a Movie

People always ask me, "Why didn't you write a book?" But that's what Persepolis is. To me, a book is pages related to something that has a cover. Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

We learn about the world through images all the time. In the cinema we do it, but to make a film you need sponsors and money and 10,000 people to work with you. With a graphic novel, all you need is yourself and your editor.

Of course, you have to have a very visual vision of the world. You have to perceive life with images otherwise it doesn't work. Some artists are more into sound; they make music. The point is that you have to know what you want to say, and find the best way of saying it. It's hard to say how Persepolis evolved once I started writing. I had to learn how to write it as a graphic novel by doing.

I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change though.

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface. That is why I wanted people in other countries to read Persepolis, to see that I grew up just like other children.

It's so rewarding to see people at my book signings who never read graphic novels. They say that when they read mine they became more interested. If it opens these people's eyes not to believe what they hear, I feel successful.

You Have to Think Freely to Know What to Write

My parents were very proud when they read Persepolis. If I criticize them once in a while, it's because it's the truth, and they laugh. My father always says, "It is only an idiot who never changes his mind." My parents accept that times change, and they are not right anymore. They've taught me that you can make mistakes.

They were extremely open-minded about what I said and they were demanding. I'm also tender with them because they were magnificent parents. They gave me the most important thing - the freedom of thinking and deciding for myself. The best present anyone can receive is not being formatted because the world or a religion wants you to be.

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