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• Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

  Maldonado, Crystal,

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  A plus-sized Latina’s struggle to forge a healthy relationship with her own body is challenged by her mother’s insensitivity, her popular best friend and personal doubts about a new boyfriend’s ability to see her as she truly is.

• Written in Starlight

  Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist),

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  Follows an outcast Condesa, as she braves the jungle to forge an alliance with the lost city of gold. Make sure to check out the first book in the series, Woven in Moonlight.

• Simone Breaks All the Rules

  Rigaud, Debbie,

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  The daughter of strict Haitian parents, Simone creates a Senior Year Bucket List of all the things she hasn't had a chance to do, but soon her list takes on a life of its own, forcing her to make some difficult decisions.

• Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

  De Leon, Jennifer, 1979-

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  Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand.

• The Mirror Season

  McLemore, Anna-Marie,

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  When two teens, Ciela and Lock, discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through Ciela's family’s possibly-magical pastelería, Lock's secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New David Espinoza

  Aceves, Fred,

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  Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.

• Illusionary

  Córdova, Zoraida,

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  Renata and her enemy Prince Castian must team up to find the fabled Knife of Memory and bring peace to the kingdom of Puerto Leones. Book two in the Hollow Crown duology.

• Tigers, Not Daughters

  Mabry, Samantha,

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  Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house.

• Infinity Reaper

  Silvera, Adam, 1990-

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  A follow-up to Infinity Son finds Emil investigating a past he wants to escape to find an antidote to the Reaper's Blood that is killing Brighton, while Maribelle's thirst for revenge compels her down a dangerous path.

• This Train Is Being Held

  Williams, Ismée,

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  Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.

• A Breath Too Late

  Callen, Rocky,

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  After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Santiago's Road Home

  Diaz, Alexandra,

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  Fleeing abusive relatives and extreme poverty in Mexico, young Santiago endures being detained by ICE while crossing the border into the United States.

• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel,

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  Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lobizona

  Garber, Romina,

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  When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.

• Cemetery Boys

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.

• How to Build a Heart

  Padian, Maria,

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  Izzy Crawford's family has been selected for a new home by Habitat for Humanity, near where the very attractive Sam lives, but just when her neighbor and best friend needs her most.

• Miss Meteor

  Mejia, Tehlor Kay,

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  A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Look Back

  Rivera, Lilliam,

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  A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.

• Furia

  Méndez, Yamile Saied,

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  Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.