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Published August 13, 2020Click here to see all of the current Great Graphic Novels nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
Heartstopper, vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
Graphix / Scholastic
Publication Date: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9781338617436
Charlie Spring is halfway through Year 10 (British equivalent to 9th grade) when he is placed into a new vertical class group and is seated next to Year 11 student Nick Nelson. Shy, openly gay Charlie is worried that rugby player Nick will end up being a bully, but the two strike up a friendship. As they grow closer, Charlie struggles with what he assumes is an unrequited crush, and Nick starts to question if his feelings for Charlie are romantic. And if they are, what does that mean in regards to his identity?
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Published August 12, 2020Click here to see all of the current Amazing Audiobooks nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed; narrated by a full cast
Listening Library
Release date: April 14, 2020
ISBN: 978-0593162576
Brothers Omar and Hassan escaped war in Somalia where their father was killed. As very young boys they arrived at Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Their mother is missing, and Hassan is not well. At the camp, food and medical care is scarce, and hope is hard to come by. Omar and Hassan manage to get along with help from others. Omar is given a chance at an education, which, while reluctant to take (as it will separate him from his brother regularly) he decides to go to school.
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Published August 11, 2020Click here to see all of the current Quick Picks nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
The Upside of Falling by Alex Light
Harper Teen / Harper Collins
Publication Date: February 18, 2020
ISBN: 978-0062918055
Brett is a popular jock and all around nice guy with a seemingly perfect life. Becca is a smart, quiet, hard-working girl who flies under the radar. Becca’s more interested in reading about love than experiencing it herself, and Brett’s priorities have been football and pleasing his father. The two start a fake relationship that evolves into the real deal.
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Published August 7, 2020Click here to see all of the current Best Fiction for Young Adults nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
Lobizona by Romina Garber
Wednesday Books / Macmillan
Publication Date: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 978-1250239129
Manu has lived her whole life in a bubble, unable to truly exist in the world due to both her undocumented status and her unusual, unforgettable eyes. When her surrogate grandmother dies and her mother is arrested by ICE, she strikes out on her own and uncovers the true history of her Argentinian father’s family and the magic she didn’t know she possessed.
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Published August 6, 2020Click here to see all of the current Great Graphic Novels nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano
DC Comics
Publication Date: March 10, 2020
ISBN: 9781401290665
Barbara Gordon is a world-class hacker. Unfortunately, the skills that keep her interested in hacking lead her into dangerous situations. After Barbara survives a gunshot wound that leaves her paralyzed from the waist down, she reluctantly agrees to let her father admit her to the Arkham Center for Independence. At the Center, she will undergo physical and mental therapy and accustom herself to her new normal. Barbara, angry and afraid, starts to wonder if the sounds she hears in her room at night and the mysterious visitor she receives are all the result of her trauma. But then patients start to go missing and Barbara has suspicions that there is something more going on behind the mysterious walls of Arkham Center.
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Published August 5, 2020Click here to see all of the current Amazing Audiobooks nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman; narrated by Padma Venkatraman
Listening Library
Release date: 09-03-19
ISBN: 978-0593153482
Veda is at the top of her game as a classical dancer in India. Then, on a bus to a championship dance show a terrible accident leaves her with a partial leg amputation, crushing her dance prodigy dreams. Unable to give in to losing her life’s love, Veda finds a dance teacher willing to take her on, but she must start at the beginning, learning to dance all over again with her new prosthetic leg. At her new dance school she meets Govinda, a boy who also has a love for dance, one that is deeply spiritual. As she is relearning the movements of her body, with the help of Govinda, she connects much more fully to the meaning behind the dances and herself.
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Published August 4, 2020Click here to see all of the current Quick Picks nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray
Publication Date: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 978-0062820273
Felix, a high school senior who is trans, is enrolled in an elite summer art program in New York City. When an unknown classmate hangs pictures of Felix in their school’s lobby–personal, pre-transition photos, captioned with his deadname–Felix is devastated. Reeling with anger, he sets up a catfishing scheme to get back at the person who he thinks is responsible. In the process of uncovering the truth, Felix is pulled into a love triangle and grapples with feelings of being unworthy of love.
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Published August 1, 2020
What happened in YA this month? Here is a quick round up of featured posts on The Hub and other links to keep you up to date when collecting for your teens. Selected list nominations are here!
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The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund
Razorbill / Penguin Random House
Publication Date: April 7, 2020
ISBN: 978-0593114919
There are no secrets in Keely’s small hometown or in her even smaller graduating high school class. So everyone knows that Keely is still a virgin. Literally everyone else in her class has found someone to lose it to, but Keely has a hard time seeing any of her classmates as possible romantic interests when she’s known them all since they were picking their noses and eating glue in kindergarten. So when Keely gets a job at the local video store with cute college guy Dean, she’s determined to have sex before she goes to college. And who better to make her seem like an experienced, worldly seductress (instead of the clueless virgin that she is) than her player BFF Andrew? But even the best-laid plans go awry, and Keely’s whole plan depends on staying JUST FRIENDS with Andrew–which is suddenly much, much harder than it’s ever been before…
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