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• Wicked Fox

  Cho, Kat,

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  After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his. This was recommended to me by a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Set in an America very similar to our own except there’s magic. Elatsoe is from a Lipan Apache family where the women have the ability to raise the spirits of dead animals. When her cousin dies in an apparent car accident, he comes to her in a dream…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Wish You All the Best

  Deaver, Mason,

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  After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school. I really liked reading a story with a nonbinary protagonist and Ben’s simultaneously strong and vulnerable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Book of the White

  Clare, Cassandra,

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  Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood must travel to China to recover a book stolen by warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung, who are being controlled by a Greater Demon. Magnus and Alec originated in Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter series and this spin-off…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stay Gold

  McSmith, Tobly,

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  Told in two voices, Pony, who is concealing his transgender identity at his new Texas high school, and Georgia, a cisgender cheerleader counting the days until she graduates, develop a complicated relationship. This story has compassionate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Two sisters who didn’t know the other existed are brought together by the sudden death of their father. Set in both New York and the Dominican Republic, this is a novel in verse that starts with a soap opera hook but tells a really complex and rich…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sword in the Stars

  Capetta, A. R.

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  This is the sequel to Once & Future. Ari is the future reincarnation of King Arthur…in space. King Arthur and his knights have been stuck in an endless cycle of reincarnation until they can defeat an ancient enemy which they can never seem to do.…Read moreRead more of this annotation