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Fifteen-year-old Joyce searches for her place in a city neighborhood, learning to embrace her changing body and find her

Meet thirty indomitable women, from famous explorers to hidden revolutionaries, who used their wit and spirit to change

These raw, original poems written by real teenagers capture the intense emotional highs and lows of life, from deep desp

Fifteen celebrated authors pull back the curtain on their own lives to reveal the real-world inspirations that grew into

Enore faces a new life in America after her father's death, torn between her mother's strict rules and her own dreams of

Forty-five years apart, a Mexican-American teen and her great aunt fight parallel battles against body shaming and unfai

Follow the courageous students who risked everything in the spring of 1989 to stand up for freedom and civil rights in C

Eighty thousand American citizens were held in camps during WWII; their true stories are told here through first-person

Liberted from Auschwitz but silenced by trauma, sixteen-year-old Gerta searches for her voice and her heritage in a disp

Desperation drives Rumi across the Upper City border to find a cure for his dying father, only to find himself caught in

Magic, horror, and science fiction collide in these stories where trans and nonbinary characters claim their identities

Zarela’s life as a dragon fighter is upended when disaster strikes the arena, forcing her to protect her heritage in the

Poppy’s family has spent her whole life hiding and on the move, but a relocation to California finally exposes the dange

Eighteen-year-old Noni Reid travels to rural Virginia and unearths the tangled, hidden truths of her enslaved and enslav

Vivid illustrations and surreal stories reveal the hidden and magical connections between city-dwelling humans and the a

Wrongfully sent to a 1970s reformatory after a misunderstanding with her mother, Jane turns to free verse to find her vo

Belén and Leti navigate the high-stakes world of college applications and a secret pregnancy while facing the daily real

Twenty years of raw, honest, and electric student voices come to life in this collection of poems from a renowned Chicag

Savannah battles microaggressions and white privilege at an elite college while trying to fulfill her mother's hopes for

Demi-god Neve has defended the mortal realm from demons for centuries, but everything changes when she falls for a human

Rana balances the pressures of her Iranian family with the grief of losing her best friend while searching for her own v

Weighted down by the needs of everyone around her, Georgia struggles to find the quiet space where her own voice can fin

Joaquin prepares for his eighteenth birthday celebration and his first date in this joyful story of family, identity, an

Pirouette is a wooden puppet brought to life by forbidden magic, now trapped by an evil ruler who wants her to build a m