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*Seafire Adventure by Natalie Parker (FIC JAC)
Follows Caledonia Styx, captain of her own ship, the Mors Navis, and it’s all-female crew as they strive to defeat the powerful fleet of Aric Athair, the vicious warlord who has taken their homes and families. ______________________________
*The Summer Of Jordi Perez Realistic by Amy Spalding (FIC SPA) Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people's lives. Her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances. And Abby's been happy to focus on her plus-size style blog. When she lands a great internship at her favorite boutique, she's thrilled to take the first step toward her dream career. Then she falls for her fellow intern, Jordi Perez. Hard. And now she's competing against the girl she's kissing to win the coveted paid job at the end of the internship. ____________________________
*Truly Devious Fantasy by Maureen Johnson (FIC JOH)
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she plans to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
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*The Way You Make Me Feel Realistic by Maurene Goo (FIC GOO)
Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?

In Other Lands Realistic by Sarah Rees Brennan (FIC BRE) Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship, and world peace, may actually be possible.
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The Loneliest Girl in the Universe Realistic by Lauren James (FIC JAM)
Stranded on a spaceship speeding away from Earth, Romy is euphoric when she gets word that she will soon be joined by another ship, but as the Eternity gets closer, Romy begins to suspect that the captain has a mission all of his own. _____________________________
The Poet X Realistic by Elizabeth Acevedo (FIC ACE)
With her mom's determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. She has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook,--when she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she doesn't know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can't stop thinking about performing her poems.

2019-2020
Best Teen Books
Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees
for Teen Readers
2019-2020
Annotated

* books indicate Readers Rally
selection

*After The Shot Drops Sports by Randi Ribay (FIC RIB) Told from alternating perspectives, this novel follows Bunny, who takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind his best friend Nasir in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
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*Children Of Blood and Bone Fantasy by Tomi Adeyemi (FIC ADE)
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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*Dread Nation Historical by Justina Ireland (FIC IRE)
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—in this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few and trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home, but when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.
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Mary’s Monster Biography By Lita Judge (B SHE) Mary Shelley first began penning Frankenstein as part of a dare to write a ghost story, but the seeds of that story were planted long before that night. Mary, just nineteen years old at the time, had been living on her own for three years and had already lost a baby days after birth. Mary fueled her grief, pain, and passion into a book that the world has still not forgotten 200 years later.

*Devils Within Realistic
By S.F. Henson (FIC HEN) The story of a teen raised in a Neo-Nazi cult who is struggling to reform his life in a hostile society.
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*Dear Martin Realistic
by Nic Stone (FIC LU)
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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*Far From the Tree Realistic
by Robin Benway (FIC BEN)
Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles to between cautious joy at having found them, and the true meaning of family in all its forms. _________________________________
*Girl Made of stars Realistic
by Ashley Herring Blake (FIC BLA)
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
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*Heretics Anonymous Realistic
by Katie Henry (FIC HEN)
When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the school's hypocrisies one stunt at a time.

*I Am Still Alive Adventure by Kate Alice Marshall ( FIC MAR)
There are two beginnings to this story. One of them is on a tarmac in Alaska. The other's standing on a lakeshore with the rain falling on me like mist, the cabin's timbers smoldering, sullen and red. I'll tell you both stories, what happened before my father died and what happened after. And when I'm done or when I am too weak to write anymore, I'll leave this notebook where the cabin was. If someone comes looking for us, for me, maybe they'll find it. So if you're reading this, I'm probably dead. But for a while, I survived. My name is Jess Cooper and I am still alive.
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*Now Is Everything Realistic by Amy Giles (FIC GIL) The McCauleys look perfect on the outside. But nothing is ever as it seems, and this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley McCauley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. But when Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates, culminating in an explosive accident that will leave everyone changed.
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*Pitch Dark Sci-Fi
by Karl Deuker (FIC DEU)
Tuck Durante, a ship raider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker Graphic Novel by Jen Wang ( FIC WAN) Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!