Others: Overwhelmingly positive Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
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Angie Thomas
2017 · 451 pages · 30 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveThe Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant. The book is narrated by Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school in a predominantly white, affluent part of the city. Starr becomes entangled in a national news story after she witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil. She speaks up about the shooting in increasingly public ways, and social tensions culminate in a riot after a grand jury decides not to indict the police officer for the shooting. The Hate U Give was published on February 28, 2017, by HarperCollins imprint Balzer + Bray, which had won a bidding war for the rights to the novel. The book was a commercial success, debuting at number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list, where it remained for 50 weeks. It won several awards and received critical praise for Thomas's writing and timely subject matter. In writing the novel, Thomas attempted to expand readers' understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as difficulties faced by black Americans who employ code switching. These themes, as well as the vulgar language, attracted some controversy and caused the book to be one of the most challenged books of 2017 and 2018 according to the American Library Association.
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Jandy Nelson
2010 · 275 pages · 6 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveIn the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
2020 · 432 pages · 19 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveIn a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
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Patrick Ness
2011 · 224 pages · 12 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA brilliant, graphic novel written by young but promising Patrick Ness. This is the story about 13 year old Conor and his mother who is dying of cancer. Conor has to face the cruelty of real life and learn to let his close and dearest go. When no human can help him Monster appears...
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Nina LaCour
2017 · 234 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveAfter leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
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Sandhya Menon
2017 · 384 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive380 Seiten
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Loved itAeros and Dante discover the secrets of the universe was like one of the first queer books that we got in YA that took off the way that it did. ... And then I finally read them and they were like they were all out and I really enjoyed them.
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Loved itIt's also about their lives, how they grow up, how they live and basically just a very beautiful story. It's also a little bit about philosophy on life which I love.
Loved itit is honestly one of the most stunning stories I've ever read and it's simple and it's beautiful and it's refreshing so I highly recommend this book to you
Loved itit made me laugh it made me cry and I think that's just it you know that's one of the things I like most about reading that it makes me feel all the feels
Loved itBlew my mind with its goodness and it was a really enjoyable read and like I teared up a couple times.
Loved itThis story was amazing. It had me crying as well. This is a very character-driven story.
