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• Give Me a Sign

  Sortino, Anna

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  Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.

• Where You See Yourself

  Forrest, Claire (Young adult author)

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  Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Goes the Neighborhood

  Adia, Jade

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  Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tilly in Technicolor

  Eddings, Mazey

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  When eighteen-year-old Tilly goes to London to intern for her sister's company, she begins to unmask her ADHD and connects with Oliver, another neurodivergent intern.

• Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

  Bryant, Elise

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  Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under This Forgetful Sky

  Yero, Lauren

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  When rebels infect his father with a fatal virus, sixteen-year-old Rumi ventures beyond his city's protected walls and meets Paz, who offers to guide him on his search for a cure, but may have an agenda of her own.

• The Quiet and the Loud

  Fox, Helena

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  George seeks the quiet in the loud world around her when the past comes rushing back and sends her into the arms of a girl who brings hope and light into her otherwise dark life.

• Chaos Theory

  Stone, Nic

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  Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Letters for Joy

  See, Melissa

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  Less than a year away from graduation, seventeen-year-old Joy is too busy overachieving to be worried about relationships. She’s determined to be Caldwell Prep’s first disabled valedictorian. And she only has one person to beat, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something More

  Khalilieh, Jackie

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  Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hungry Ghost

  Ying, Victoria

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  Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at her priorities,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Luis Ortega Survival Club

  Reyes, Sonora

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  Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

  Hibbert, Talia

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  Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Summer Promise

  Brown, Keah

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  Planning the best summer ever, Andrea Williams realizes that there's just one thing that could ruin it: her best friend Hailee finding out her true feelings, so Andrea will fall out of love with her--or so she thinks. Last summer, Andrea…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent

  Jacobus, Ann

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  Eighteen-year-old Del is in a healthier place more than a year after a suicide attempt, but her aunt's terminal cancer diagnosis forces her to confront the demons she has been keeping at bay.

• Forever Is Now

  Lockington, Mariama

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  When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.

• We Are All So Good at Smiling

  McBride, Amber

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  When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The First Thing About You

  Hayden, Chaz

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  Fifteen-year-old Harris, who has spinal muscular atrophy, seeks to reinvent himself while navigating first love in Hayden's sincere debut.

• Love From Mecca to Medina

  Ali, S. K.

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  Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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  Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets…Read moreRead more of this annotation