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Review of Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp. 10/24 9781665961271 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he was...
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Review of Banned Books, Crop Tops, and Other Bad Influences
Banned Books, Crop Tops, and Other Bad Influences by Brigit YoungMiddle School Roaring Brook 320 pp.9/24 9781250901514 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250901521 $9.99There’s a new student in Rose’s eighth-grade class in small-town Michigan—and she’s from New York City. Rose can’t believe how mature Talia is, or how brazenly she disrupts the status...
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Review of Leap
Leap by Simina Popescu; illus. by the authorHigh School Roaring Brook 304 pp.11/24 9781250838292 $24.99Paper ed. 9781250838308 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250408471 $11.99This coming-of-age graphic novel follows Ana and Sara, roommates and students at an elite high school for dance in Bucharest, Romania. Ana is secretly dating Carina, a passionate but selfish...
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Review of Every Time You Hear That Song
Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris High School Viking 320 pp.4/24 Paper ed. 9780593623398 $12.99e-book ed. 9780593623381 $8.99In 1963, fifteen-year-old Decklee left her town of Mayberry, Arkansas, with a dream of becoming a country music legend and never looked back. In 2024, just after the news of...
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Review of Not like Other Girls
Not like Other Girls by Meredith AdamoHigh School Bloomsbury 448 pp.4/24 9781547614004 $19.99e-book ed. 9781547614011 $13.99Seventeen-year-old Jo is quick to list qualities she’s learned are “the trouble with girls like me.” She’s “wild,” “difficult,” “a slut.” A social outcast after a classmate leaked nude photos, she’s mostly ignored by her...
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Review of The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne
The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne by Shannon TakaokaHigh School Candlewick 384 pp.10/23 9781536228786 $19.99e-book ed. 9781536234312 $19.99It’s 1987, and Gracie is the new girl at her Pittsburgh high school; her family has recently moved in with her grandmother, who has Alzheimer’s. After some embarrassing encounters with her new...
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Review of Plan A
Plan A by Deb CalettiHigh School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp.10/23 9780593485545 $18.99Library ed. 9780593485552 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593485576 $10.99Ivy, sixteen, is pregnant and scared. In conservative Paris, Texas, she knows she can’t disclose her condition—or her desire to have an abortion, which is illegal in Texas after six weeks. The accidental...
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Review of Unexpecting
Unexpecting by Jen BaileyHigh School Wednesday/St. Martin’s 304 pp.8/23 9781250780942 $20.00e-book ed. 9781250780959 $11.99This unconventional teen-pregnancy tale follows sixteen-year-old Ben, who had sex with his friend Maxie “as a scientific test.” He wanted to confirm that he was gay; she was participating in “some kind of TikTok social experiment thing.”...
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Review of The Memory Eater
The Memory Eater by Rebecca MahoneyHigh School Razorbill/Penguin 336 pp.3/23 9780593524602 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593524619 $10.99To the town of Whistler Beach, Maine, the Memory Eater—a creature confined to a cave who consumes people’s unwanted memories—is big business. And that business depends on seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow. Like generations of Harlows before her,...
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