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Posted on: July 9, 2021

Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story)

Everything Sad is Untrue

by Daniel Nayeri

2021 WINNER!

In an autobiographical novel, middle-schooler Daniel, formerly Khosrou, tells his unimpressed and at times cruel classmates about his experience as an Iranian refugee.

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Apple (Skin to the Core)

Apple - Skin to the Core

by Eric Gansworth

2021 Honor Book

Gansworth – an enrolled member of the Onandaga Nation – revisits his childhood and teen years spent on a Tuscarora reservation in this ambitious and searing memoir. Told in verse and accompanied by origi...

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Dragon Hoops

Dragon Hoops

by Gene Luen Yang; color by Lark Pien

2021 Honor Book

Gene Luen Yang never would have guessed that he would be working on a graphic novel about a basketball team, but he found inspiration in the men’s varsity team at Bishop O’Dowd High S...

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Every Body Looking

Every Body Looking

by Candice Iloh

2021 Honor Book

In this novel in verse, Ada recounts her freshman year as a first generation student attending a Historically Black College, while simultaneously taking the reader through her younger life. Ada feels the pressure to make mone...

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We Are Not Free

We Are Not Free

by Traci Chee

2021 Honor Book

Just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued the Civilian Exclusion Order, forcing the tight knit community of Japantown teens and their families to incarceration camps. Author Traci Chee deftly man...

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