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Fire and Heist by Sarah Beth Durst

Fire and Heist

By Sarah Beth Durst
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Preya N.
Oct 21, 2021

Fire and Heist is a novel about sixteen-year-old Sky Hawkins, who is a wyvern: a human that has the ability to transform into a dragon. Unfortunately, most wyverns nowadays have lost that ability. What they haven’t lost, however, is their culture of stealing—in wyvern society, leading your first heist is the most important milestone of your life, and it determines everything about where you belong in the wyvern social order.

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Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Warrior

By Nnedi Okorafor
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Preya N.
Oct 21, 2021

A year and a half after the events of Akata Witch, Sunny is studying her magical powers in order to master the art of juju, Nigerian magic, with her mentor Sugar Cream, as well as attempting to decipher her confusing and dangerous Nsibidi book.

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Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Witch

By Nnedi Okorafor
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Preya N.
Oct 21, 2021

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if magic was possible? Akata Witch tells the story of 12-year-old Sunny as she opens her eyes to a world of magic she didn’t even know existed. Previously, she had always been different from her peers and friends in one way or another, but soon after she discovers juju, Nigerian magic, she realizes that it is responsible for why she never fit in.

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It Goes Like this by Miel Moreland

It Goes Like This

By Miel Moreland
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 21, 2021

Four teen friends, Celeste, Steph, Gina, and Eva, are all members of a famous band, Moonlight Overthrow.  All was good until Celeste and Eva underwent a messy breakup, causing the band members to break away. All band members had formed their own path until a storm brings the four members together, for one last show.

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Scythe by Neal Schusterman

Scythe

By Neal Schusterman
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Joy Y.
Oct 21, 2021

Scythe brings you to the future where everything is perfect, and humans have surpassed death, and reached a point of immortality. The Thunderhead, an AI that controls the functions of government and civilization, only stays separate from the Sycthedom. The Scythes are the only way that people die, since being “deadish” is a stage that lasts at most a couple days. Two teenagers, Citra and Rowan, are brought together under an apprenticeship of a highly respected scythe and trained to become the killers of society.

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When You and I Collide by Kate Norris

When You and I Collide

By Kate Norris
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 21, 2021

Winnie is a 16-year-old girl that can see things no one else can. She can see “splits,” when two outcomes diverge; also known as the multi verse theory. She keeps her power a secret, because she knows it could be used among the midst of the WWII.  Her physicist father experiments on her to see if she could change the future and the past. It was all fine until Scott, her father’s lab assistant, gets injured. Winnie chooses the reality where he is fine, but she finds out she doesn’t belong there.

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Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Meet Cute Diary

By Emery Lee
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 21, 2021

Noah Ramirez runs a popular blog called “Meet Cute Diary” where he writes stories of loves stories including trans people. These blogs give many trans people hope for love of their own. But there seems to be one problem for Noah: the stories are fake. He tries to keep this under wraps until someone exposes his stories as fiction. He tries to stage a romance with Drew, his friend, but it quickly turns into something real.

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Don't Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd

Don't Hate the Player

By Alexis Nedd
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 21, 2021

Emilia is living a double life: in the morning she is a hockey star with an academic future, in the night, she is a member of a competitive e-sports team. She depends on keeping the two worlds separate. But when there is a tournament that comes near her, someone she knows recognizes her. 

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Finding Nemo DVD

Finding Nemo

Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Aryan C.
Oct 21, 2021

Finding Nemo is one of my favorite childhood movies because it tells an amazing adventure across the ocean. The movie starts with Marlin trying to protect his son Nemo, a clown fish, who has one fin of less than average size; Nemo ends up being captured and lands in a fishbowl with other apprehended and imprisoned fish accompanying him. Nemo’s dad, Marlin, travels across the immeasurable ocean along with a new friend he made named Dory who suffers from short-term memory loss.

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Smoke by Darcy Woods

Smoke

By Darcy Woods
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 21, 2021

Honor Augustine is a perfect student and cares for her father who has PTSD. When she finds out that her family is getting into financial trouble and at risk of losing their greenhouse business, she is firm on saving them. She decides to grow marijuana to help her father and her family’s business.

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