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The Collectors

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange a…

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"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

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Salt the Water

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full s…

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Rez Ball

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be.

These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketbal…

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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir

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Gather

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel.

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Nigeria Jones

Warrior Princess.

That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in …

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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real

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Black Girl You Are Atlas

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes
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Saints of the Household

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer.

Max and Jay have always depended on one another f…

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