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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry illustrates the life of an African American family living in Chicago. Each of the family members hold a dream, that is unique and different in it’s own...

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The Fever King by Victoria Lee

The Fever King by Victoria Lee is a science fiction book where we follow Noam Álvaro, a survivor of a magic virus outbreak. This magic virus would kill his entire family, but his survival would give...

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King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

King of Scars is a book about a young king named Nikolai Lantsov, who is struggling to conceal a dark secret: he has an uncontrollable ability to turn into a winged monster every night. While trying to...

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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass, a book by Philip Pullman is the first book of the His Dark Materials series. The main character, Lyra Belacqua joins the expedition to the north in search of the secrets of the...

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Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Katie is a Japanese-American who often faces racism. But for Katie, it doesn’t matter too much since she has her older sister, Lynn, to play and talk to. However, Lynn falls ill one day and it begins...

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code is a mystery book about a murder that occurred in a museum. A symbologist named Robert Langdon and a cryptologist named Sophie Neveu follow clues, unravelling secrets after secrets...

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The Sound of Freedom by Kathy Kacer

Anna is a Jewish girl growing up in the time of WWII and Hitler. Anna, her father, and her baba live in Poland, where rising tensions against Jews is rising. Jewish stores are being vandalized, people...

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson follows a high school senior, Pippa, as she tries to solve a mystery that happened in her town years ago. Five years prior, a girl from Pippa’s school...

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Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Bella Swan has finally finished her senior year of high school, and she is engaged to the love of her life, Edward Cullen, who happens to be a vampire. After their wedding, Edward whisks Bella away to...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian Gray possesses everything one may wish for -beauty, purity, and goodness - untainted by the corruption that lurks in Victorian society. But when he...

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever.” The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is about a woman named Nora Seed, exploring her “alternative lives”...

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I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee

Skye Shin, a Korean American teen, has stunning talent as both a stylish dancer and a powerful singer. But because she’s not the same shape as the lean women on the runway, society has told her all her...

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Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

“If you’re lost, you might need to swim against the tide.”Counting By 7s is a realistic fiction novel by Holly Goldberg Sloan. It’s sad, funny, beautiful, and heartwarming, and it tugs on your...

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Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

<Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue, is about a Cameroonian-American immigrant family, struggling through to achieve their official right to stay in the United States. The story takes place in the...

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Friends Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spent their entire childhood at the English boarding school Hailsham. It was an intriguing place, filled with mysterious teachers, strange rules, and seemingly harmless...

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Zodiac by Romina Russell

Rho is a Cancerian, always will be. From the very start she’s loved her home and has a deep connection with it. But when her home planet is attacked by an unknown planet, everything changes. Rho is...

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Faith by Julie Murphy

The summer before her senior year, Faith discovers a new ability to fly. Finally, with a secret to rival all of her favorite fictional characters she goes back to school, when weird things in her small...

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When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

If you loved To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, you should try When Dimple Met Rishi! The book centers around the two main characters, Dimple and Rishi, attending a web design summer program together...

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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Pearl is keeping a secret. She is afraid to tell her mother that she has multiple sclerosis, a degenerative nerve disease with no cure. Pearl’s mother, Winnie, has her own secrets. She is haunted by a...

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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Every summer Candance Sinclar’s family visits their private island on the coast of Massachusetts. During these summers she especially enjoys spending time with her three closest family friends, Johnny,...

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Set in Jazz Age New York, The Great Gatsby is a historical fiction novel about the decline of the American Dream. What at first appears to be a story about glitz and glamor turns into a tragic tale...

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Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Scarlett and Tella live on a small island with their cruel father ever since their mothers disappeared. Scarlett has always wanted to participate in Caraval but has been held back by her father and the...

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Restart by Gordon Korman

“Lose your memory, find your life.” Restart is a realistic fiction novel by Gordon Korman. The book starts out with the main protagonist, Chase Ambrose, waking up in the hospital. He is greeted by many...

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The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a beloved coming of age novel by Stephen Chbosky. The story takes place in the year 1991 and is narrated by a collection of letters written by a high school...

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The Good Place (Complete Series) created by Michael Schur

 The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy television series. The storyline primarily follows a woman from Arizona named Eleanor Shellstrop. In the first episode of the series, viewers learn that Eleanor...

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