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Blackout is a young adult novel written by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon. The book contains six interlinked stories about Black teen love during a power outage in New York City. [1] The book was released on June 22, 2021. [2] [3]
Something Upstairs (also published as Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts) is a 1988 young adult historical thriller fiction novel written by Avi.It concerns a 12-year-old boy named Kenny Huldorf who has moved to a new area and discovers a ghost, Caleb, in a room.
The book was given a Stonewall Book honor, [2] and TIME magazine named it one of the best 100 young adult books of all time. [3] The novel follows Liz Lighty, who hatches a plan to leave the "small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town" she lives in because she feels "too black, too poor, too awkward" to live her best life there. [4] [5] [6] [7]
In this unassuming little gem of a book written in free verse, 12-year-old tomboy Joylin enters middle school, where everything that had formerly been safe and familiar—her two best friends, her ...
A young man named Luis is introduced as the older brother of Theresa and Tino. Luis works at his parents' citrus farm and is developing a new kind of tangerine called the Golden Dawn. While at Paul's house for a school project, Tino makes fun at how Erik fell down while attempting to a kick an extra point during an earlier football game, so ...
The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a young adult gay novel by American author Nick Burd first published in 2009. The novel depicts the summer after high school graduation for a closeted suburban teenage boy, his openly lesbian new best friend, and the two boys he is interested in dating (one a Latino football star, the other a drug dealer).
Seventeen's Best Young Adult Books of the Year Selection [18] TIME 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time Selection [7] 2018 Bustle Best Book of the Decade Selection [8] Capitol Choices, Ages Fourteen and Up Selection [14] Michael L. Printz Award: Winner [19] [20] ALA Rainbow List: Top 10 [21] 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee [14 ...
X is a Junior Library Guild selection. [1]The book received starred review from Publishers Weekly, [2] Kirkus Reviews, [3] Booklist, [4] Shelf Awareness, [5] The Horn Book, [6] and School Library Journal, [7] as well as positive reviews from The New York Times Book Review, [8] HuffPost, [9] and Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.