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Review: Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Sade is the new girl at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy, an exclusive boarding school filled with the teenage progeny of the elite and powerful…
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Sophie Brown
Review: Cursed Cruise by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren
Following their near-fatal visit to the Hearst Hotel, the Ghost Gang YouTube channel has been doing well and the group of teens behind it - Chrissy…
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Sophie Brown
Review: The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
This series follows 16-year-old Deka who lives in the patriarchal and oppressive land of Otera. When Deka underwent the Ritual of Purity at 16, she bled…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘So This Is Ever After’ by F.T. Lukens
What happens after the valiant band of heroes slay the evil king who had usurped the throne decades ago and banish his followers from the realm?
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Pride Month 2022: ‘Melt With You’ by Jennifer Dugan
In Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan, we follow Fallon, a queer high school senior whose mother runs a gourmet ice cream truck. Last summer, Fallon hooked…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘This Wicked Fate’ by Kalynn Bayron
This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron is the sequel to This Poison Heart in which we met teenage Briseis who, since birth, has been able to affect all plant…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘Gender Queer’ by Maia Kobabe
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is the only graphic novel in this year’s Pride Month coverage and a powerful memoir by a non-binary author who uses e/em/eir…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘The Civil War of Amos Abernathy’ by Michael Leali
In The Civil War of Amos Abernathy, thirteen-year-old Amos Abernathy is a history nerd who loves everything to do with 19th century America and spends…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo
Last Night at the Telegraph Club is the story of seventeen-year-old Lily, a Chinese-American girl living in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid-1950s…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘Queer Up’ by Alexis Caught
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘If This Gets Out’ by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich
If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich is a YA romance told from the alternating perspectives of Ruben and Zach, two teenage members of…
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Sophie Brown
Pride Month 2022: ‘The Rainbow Parade’ by Emily Neilson
The Rainbow Parade is a short picture book with just enough text to make it ideal bedtime reading during Pride Month, or at any time of the year. The…
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