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         <title>Flamer by Mike Curato</title>
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         <title>#1. Sold by Patricia McCormick</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph.</p><p><br></p><p>Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. </p><p><br></p><p>Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words-Simply to endure is to triumph-and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decisionwill she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life?</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Crank by Ellen Hopkins</title>
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         <title>#6/7. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews</title>
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         <title>#8/10 Looking For Alaska by John Green</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. </p><p><br></p><p>Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>#5/6 Tricks by Ellen Hopkins</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Meet five teens: Eden Streit, Seth Parnell, Whitney Lang, Ginger Cordell, and Cody Bennett. They're from different walks of life--some are rich; some are poor; some are from nuclear families; others are not. Regardless of upbringing, they share common needs: love, acceptance, safety, and family. Eden has a secret love affair and is the daughter of a hellfire-and-brimstone preaching father; Seth, aching over the death of his mother, is a gay farm kid and hides his sexuality from his father; Whitney is good-looking and smart, but lives in the shadow of her "better" older sister and her critical mother and semi-absent father; Ginger lives in poverty with her drug-using, sexually deviant, and abusive mother; and Cody, suffering the loss of his stepfather, shoulders his mother's emotional and financial needs. All five are betrayed or "tricked" by someone they love and turn down brutal paths in which they experience even deeper deception. What will they do to be loved? To survive? Can they return home? Their stories begin in alternating vignettes and interweave into one explosive Las Vegas ending.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>#2. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. A years-long #1 New York Times bestseller, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and Best Book for Reluctant Readers, and with millions of copies in print, this novel for teen readers (or “wallflowers” of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison</title>
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         <title>#3. Gender Queer: a memoir by Maia Kobabe</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson</title>
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         <title>Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender</title>
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         <title>The Giver by Lois Lowry </title>
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         <title>Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada</title>
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         <title>Maus by Art Spiegelman</title>
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         <title>The Handmaid&#39;s Tale by Margaret Atwood</title>
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         <title>Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson</title>
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         <title> The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini</title>
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         <title>The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan</title>
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         <title>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury</title>
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         <title>1984 by George Orwell</title>
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         <title>The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas</title>
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         <title>#4. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have</p><p>been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves</p><p>increasingly at odds with those who don't.</p><p>With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to</p><p>save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the</p><p>horrors of the past, dark forces stand poised to claim her world. The only chance for salvation lies in a desperate</p><p>quest that may take more from Aelin than she has to give, a quest that forces her to choose what-and who-she's</p><p>willing to sacrifice for the sake of peace.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>#5. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda L</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—</p><p>that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it</p><p>definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the</p><p>flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything</p><p>seemed possible.</p><p>But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not</p><p>in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese</p><p>Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-</p><p>won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>#7. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas</title>
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         <title>#8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story</p><p>is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his</p><p>and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a</p><p>frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>#8./9 Identical by Ellen Hopkins</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Sixteen-year-old Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district court judge</p><p>father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family…on the surface. Underneath run very deep and</p><p>damaging secrets. What really happened in the car accident that Daddy caused? And why is Mom never home,</p><p>always running far away to pursue some new dream?</p><p>The girls themselves have become hopelessly divided over the years. Sick of losing Daddy’s game of favorites,</p><p>Raeanne turns to painkillers, alcohol, and sex to dull her pain her anger. Kaeleigh tries to be her father’s perfect</p><p>little flower, but being the misplaced focus of his sexual attention has her seeking control anywhere she can—</p><p>even if it means cutting herself and unhealthy binge and purge eating.</p><p>Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept—from each other or anyone else. Before</p><p>long, it's obvious that neither sister can handle their problems alone, and one must step up to save the other, but</p><p>the question is…who?</p>]]></description>
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         <title>#8/11 Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits.</p><p>Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely</p><p>guarded by Wardens—gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind from demons. If the demons discover the</p><p>truth about Trinity, they’ll devour her, flesh and bone, to enhance their own powers.</p><p>When Wardens from another clan arrive with disturbing reports that something out there is killing both demons</p><p>and Wardens, Trinity’s safe world implodes. Not the least because one of the outsiders is the most annoying and</p><p>fascinating person she’s ever met. Zayne has secrets of his own that will upend her world yet again—but working</p><p>together becomes imperative once demons breach the compound and Trinity’s secret comes to light. To save her</p><p>family and maybe the world, she’ll have to put her trust in Zayne. But all bets are off as a supernatural war is</p><p>unleashed</p>]]></description>
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