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The global slave trade backgrounds Solange Burrell’s fantastical coming-of-age novel "Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace", about what it truly means to act in favor of the greater good. In eighteenth-century West Africa, sixteen-year-old...
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In Kelly Ann Jacobson’s retelling of Pinocchio, "Lies of a Toymaker", a girl embraces heroism and self-discovery. Paige is the daughter of a traveling toymaker who’s always on the move. Her loyalty to her mother keeps her secluded...
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Set in a postapocalyptic world, Ingvild Bjerkeland’s chilling novel "Beasts" is about children who hope to reunite with their father. Thirteen-year-old Abdi is the guardian of his five-year-old sister, Alva, since a beast killed their...
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A poetic, rhythmic campfire tale that moves at a quick, tense pace, "Warriors of the Red Wolf" is an engrossing community origin story. In Nicholas Varner’s fabulistic novel "Warriors of the Red Wolf", warriors seek safety from a...
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A determined teenager comes of age in her ancestral environment in the relatable novel Kat’s Greek Summer. In Mima Tipper’s sympathetic novel Kat’s Greek Summer, a teenage girl reconciles herself to her complex identity. At the...
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In Clint Hall’s exhilarating science fiction novel "Echo Nova", time travel leads to the dehumanization of the people of the past. In a dystopian future, eighteen-year-old Dash livestreams his nighttime parkour races in the hopes of...
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