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"Moxie girls fight back!" High school isn't great for Viv in her east Texas town. The girls at her school are constantly belittled and...

Jade is one of very few African American students at her private school. She attends on scholarship and doesn't have any close friends at...

How do you reconcile your Muslim culture with also being a typical teenage girl growing up in America? Janna does a pretty great job...

Loved it. Teens Violet and Finch meet on strange terms - atop the school's bell tower contemplating suicide. Finch talks Violet down, but...

This book is 100% relevant to what is going on in today's society. Kids stopped by the police for being black and one of them is shot...

I liked this story, but it felt like it took me forever to read. I read a lot of dystopian novels, and this one didn't meet the standards...

Centering around fifteen-year-old genius Josie and her quest to define and understand love, the book is fairly predictable. Josie is a...

The story centers around Kate Tyler, the sister of J.T., one of the protagonists in Cummings's Red Kayak. Kate is entering high school,...