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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas spent 50 weeks on The New York Times‘ young adult best-seller list, before being adapted into a hit movie of the same name. It follows a teenage girl trying to find her own voice after witnessing a shooting of her childhood best friend.
Brown Girl Dreaming
If you’re in the mood for some poetry this month, make time for Jacqueline Woodson’s seminal book Brown Girl Dreaming, which details her coming of age in the ‘60s in South Carolina and New York.
I’m not a huge poetry gal, oddly enough, considering I fancied myself quite the poet back in middle school…So it was a blessing in disguise when this poetry memoir was assigned to me for my YA lit class. I’ve heard Woodson speak before and I was wowed by her spark, and this book is all I could’ve hoped for. Who are some of your favorites who write about race?? (or gender, or sexuality, or anything not white and straight and male lol.) Everything, Everything
Jamaican-American author Nicola Yoon is one of the most prominent young adult writers in the world right now, and she became a household name thanks to this tale of a teen suffering from a rare syndrome that keeps her confined to her own home.
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