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Young Adult Books for Black History Month

February 22, 2025. Library Adminno Comments

Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice

Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships. In his first-ever memoir for young readers, Tommie Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas through to his stellar athletic career, culminating in his historic victory and Olympic podium protest. Cowritten with Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient Derrick Barnes and illustrated with bold and muscular artwork from Emmy Award-winning illustrator Dawud Anyabwile, Victory. Stand! paints a stirring portrait of an iconic moment in Olympic history that still resonates today.

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Poemhood, our black revival : history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology

edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin

Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.

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Cool. Awkward. Black

edited by Karen Strong

Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection–drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic–celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.

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A long time coming: a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

Ray Anthony Shepard ; art by R. Gregory Christie

Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much and how little racism has changed since our country’s founding.

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New Young Adult Books- January 2025

February 1, 2025. Library Adminno Comments

My fairy god somebody	YA ALLEN, MARLENE
Perfect girl	YA BANGHART, TRACY
Dating and dragons	YA BOYCE, KRISTY
Ex marks the spot	YA CHAO, GLORIA
The whispering night	YA DENNARD, SUSAN
Shadowed	YA DEUKER, CARL
The rules of royalty	YA DIETRICH, CALE
Dead below deck	YA GANGSEI, JAN
We are the beasts	YA GRIFFIS, GIGI
The lies we conjure	YA HENNING, SARAH
Thanks for listening	YA HORAN, MOLLY
Serpent sea	YA IBRAHIM, MAIYA
Rani Choudhury must die	YA JAIGIRDAR, ADIBA
Flopping in a winter wonderland	YA JUNE JASON
Heist royale	YA LEWIS, KAYVION
More than this	YA MARQUIS, KRYSTAL
A queen’s game	YA MCGEE, KATHARINE
A cruel thirst	YA MONTOYA, ANGELA
Midnights with you	YA OSONGCO, CLARE
Briarcliff prep	YA PEPPINS, BRIANNA
Darkly	YA PESSL, MARISHA
In want of a suspect	YA PRICE, TIRZAH
Medici heist	YA SCHNEIDERHAN, CAITLIN
Kisses, codes, and conspiracies	YA WEN, ABIGAIL
Better than revenge	YA WEST, KASIE
Tangleroot	YA WILLIAMS, KALELA
The donut prince of New York	YA ZADOFF, ALLEN
Tectiv.	YGN HAMILTON, RICHARD
Between the Pipes	YGN MCLEOD, ALBERT
Leap	YGN POPESCU, SIMINA
Supercharge your body and brain power	YNF 612 CHANG-LIM, EICHIN

New YA- August 2024

August 28, 2024. Library Adminno Comments

Four Eids and a funeral /	YA ABIKE-IYIMIDE, FARIDAH
Children of anguish and anarchy /	YA ADEYEMI, TOMI
Dancers of the dawn /	YA AFZAL, ZULERHA
Keepers of the stones & stars /	YA BARAKIVA, MICHAEL
The dangerous ones /	YA BLACKWOOD, LAUREN
Hearts of fire and snow /	YA BOWLES, DAVID
In the shallows /	YA BYRNE, TANYA
Asking for a friend /	YA CHEN, KARA
We mostly come out at night :	YA COSTELLO, ROB
This night is ours /	YA DAVIS, RONNI
Eddy, Eddy /	YA DE GOLDI, KATE
Malicia /	YA DOS SANTOS, STEVEN
Joined at the joints /	YA ELLER, MARISSA
All roads lead to Rome /	YA FEDEL, SABRINA
Rise /	YA FINCH, FREYA
The wilderness of girls /	YA FRANKLIN, MADELINE
Stefi and the Spanish prince /	YA FREITAS, DONNA
The great cool ranch Dorito in the sky /	YA GALARZA, JOSH
Castle of the cursed /	YA GARBER, ROMINA
The redemption of Daya Keane /	YA GORDON, GIA
Stay dead /	YA HENRY, APRIL
Not about a boy /	YA HOLLIS, MYAH
With love, Miss Americanah /	YA IGHARO, JANE
Finding famous :	YA JALILI, CANDICE
The color of a lie /	YA JOHNSON, KIM
Now, conjurers /	YA KILSCH, FREDDIE
The loudest silence /	YA LANGFORD, SYDNEY
Markless /	YA MALBURI, C.G.
Flawless girls /	YA MCLEMORE, ANNA-MARIE
Rapunzella, or, Don’t touch my hair /	YA MCLEOD, ELLA
Such charming liars /	YA MCMANUS, KAREN
Portrait of a shadow /	YA METOUI, MERIAM
A darker mischief /	YA MILMAN, DEREK
The lost souls of Benzaiten /	YA MURASHIGE, KELLY
The midnight game /	YA MURPHY, CYNTHIA
A magic fierce & bright /	YA NAYAK, HEMANT
Girls who burn /	YA PAGANO, MK
Dead girls talking /	YA PETERSON, MEGAN
The end of always /	YA PHILLIPS, REBECCA
Dashed /	YA QUAIN, AMANDA
Don’t be a drag /	YA QUINLAN, SKYE
Lady of steel and straw /	YA RODGERS, ERICA
10 things I hate about prom /	YA ROSE, ELLE
Beneath these cursed stars /	YA RYAN, LEXI
Cursed boys and broken hearts /	YA SASS, ADAM
The unboxing of a black girl /	YA SHANTE, ANGELA
Past present future /	YA SOLOMON, RACHEL
The summer love strategy /	YA STOEVE, RAY
Girls like her /	YA SUMROW, MELANIE
Have you seen this girl /	YA TYNDALL, NITA
Spin of fate /	YA VORA, A.A.
The blonde dies first /	YA WELLINGTON, JOELLE
Blood at the root /	YA WILLIAMS, LADARRION
One killer problem /	YA WINANS, JUSTINE
Louder than words /	YA WOODFOLK, ASHLEY
Exes and foes /	YA WOODY, AMANDA
It’s only a game /	YA YU, KELSEA
Sunrise nights /	YA ZENTNER, JEFF
Medalist.	YGN TSURUMAIKADA
MEDALIST 2	YGN TSURUMAIKADA
Medalist.	YGN TSURUMAIKADA
The race to be myself /	YNF 796.42 SEMENYA, CASTER

If you enjoyed One of Us is Lying, try these books

January 16, 2024. Library Adminno Comments

If you enjoyed the One of Us Is Lying series, here are a few more mystery books that may interest you.

A good girl’s guide to murder /Holly Jackson

As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.

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The cheerleaders / Kara Thomas

As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago.

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The Ivies / Alexa Donne

The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.

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They wish they were us / Jessica Goodman

At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school’s most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.

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These deadly games / Diana Urban

When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. But then Crystal realizes each task is meant to hurt–and kill–her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or has the kidnapper uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they’ve done.

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How to survive your murder / Danielle Valentine

Alice is sent back to the night of her sister’s murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.

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The Agathas / Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson

Alice Ogilvie’s disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School–until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.’

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Five Total Strangers / Natalie D. Richards

Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.

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