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Watch Us Rise
by Renee Watson, Ellen Hagen

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Jasmine and Chelsea are about to enter their junior year at New York City's progressive Amsterdam Heights Collaborative Community School. However, not long after the year ...

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1. The Nowhere Girls
  by Amy Reed
2. Love, Hate and Other Filters
  by Samira Ahmed
3. Piecing Me Together
  by Renee Watson
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Sadness Is a White Bird
by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

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Days after his 19th birthday, narrator Jonathan is detained in an Israeli army jail cell from where he begins reciting an internal epistle to his friend, Laith. By summoning ...

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1. City of Secrets
  by Stewart O'Nan
2. An Unnecessary Woman
  by Rabih Alameddine
3. I Shall Not Hate
  by Izzeldin Abuelaish
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The Falconer
by Dana Czapnik

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The Falconer is an instant female coming-of-age classic replete with 1990s nostalgia; equal parts cinematic and contemplative, cynical and doggedly hopeful. Dana Czapnik's ...

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1. Love, Hate and Other Filters
  by Samira Ahmed
2. Turtles All the Way Down
  by John Green
3. How to Set a Fire and Why
  by Jesse Ball
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A Land of Permanent Goodbyes
by Atia Abawi

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When you're a refugee, everyone has lost, at least for the time being... And the journey beyond those invisible lines can become just as heinous as living inside the ...

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1. Picture Us In The Light
  by Kelly Loy Gilbert
2. Anger Is a Gift
  by Mark Oshiro
3. You Bring the Distant Near
  by Mitali Perkins

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Abdi Nor Iftin currently lives in Portland, Maine, where he works as an interpreter for Somalis who have immigrated to the state. Abdi was accepted to the University of Southern ...

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