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Author
Series
Simonverse volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
Leah Burke is an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom; her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she's bisexual, she hasn't mustered the courage to tell her friends-- not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. When her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways, it's hard for Leah to strike the right note. And with prom and...
Author
Series
Witches of Thistle Grove novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The witch is back and ready for revenge with a little help from her friends in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana Harper. Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one--in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoor, heir to the...
Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"At Grimrose Acaďmie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next. Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
"A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. Perfect for fans of Erika L. S̀nchez,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
"There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her ... and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back"--Jacket...
7) Sorry, bro
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com by debut author Taleen Voskuni. When Nar's non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it's time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother: armed with plenty of mom-guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, a group of terminally ill patients embraces the joys within their reach: friendship, freedom, rebellion. Each in their own way is broken; each in their own way is stronger for it. In the midst of pain and loss, they find community, even miracles, and together they are determined to reclaim from life what illness has taken from them. But a singular heartbreak has led one to swear off love forever. The...
9) Hot dog girl
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
A lovesick teenager schemes to win the heart of her crush at her amusement park summer job, all while dressed as a hot dog.
Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the best summer of her life-- despite her job as a giant dancing hot dog at Magic Castle Playland. Despite the fact her crush, dreamy diving pirate Nick, already has a girlfriend, who is literally the princess of the park. Despite the fact her best friend Seeley, the carousel operator,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, Chloe Green has spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates...
Author
Series
Epitome Apartments mystery volume 2
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A wise-cracking, grammar-obsessed, pansexual amateur sleuth is thrust into the world of the uber-rich when her enigmatic, now-famous childhood friend breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker Our nameless postmodern amateur sleuth is still recovering from her first dangerous foray into detective work when her old friend Priscilla Jane Gill breezes back into her life and begs for help. Pris, now a famous travel writer, fears...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In the city of Memphis, eighteen-year-old Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love, but Lee learns that stories of happily-ever-after love do not always mirror real life.
For the past two years Lee has been laser-focused her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop, and her podcast "Artists in Love," which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent. He breaks up with her on the air right after graduation-- coincidently...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan, she's easygoing and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she's in a relationship, with a girl her friends absolutely hate. Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Film club nerd Cleo Ferrara's senior year was like a storyboard waiting to be filmed. She knew the scenes, the players, and the eventual happy ending. Attend film school with her boyfriend, Daniel Sheridan. Become a film-making power couple. Take Hollywood by storm. Cut. Print. Fade to black.? But in a plot twist Cleo never saw coming, Daniel dumps her for Kiki Pearson, the head cheerleader. This would be the point in the movie where the Sad Girl...
18) Alondra
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old June feels she is nothing without her best friend, Jess, but everything changes after she is expelled and must attend a Virginia boarding school where her grandmother teaches.
At the end of her first semester of junior year June is expelled for drinking at a school dance. Her parents send her to Virginia to attend the all-girls boarding school where her grandmother teaches. Miles away from home, her life, and most importantly her...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of high school and working as a barista in a sleepy Maine beach town, bisexual Babe Vogel struggles with changing friendships, the reappearance of her ex-girlfriend, and following her number one rule: never fall for a "summer boy."