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  • Indigenous Voices
  • Seasonal Setting
  • School, Bookshop, or Library Setting
  • By an Illinois Author
  • Short Story or Essay

2024 Teen Book Bingo: By an Illinois Author

I'll Take Everything You Have
Wrath Becomes Her
Give Me a Sign
Children of Blood and Bone
Before We Were Free
Let's Get Lost
The Hazel Wood
The Wicker King
Drum Roll, Please
Wolfpack
Super Adjacent
American Panda
Time Bomb
The House on Mango Street
Saint Juniper's Folly
The Truth About Forever
Crash From Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
Turtles All the Way Down
Strike the Zither
A River of Royal Blood
Kira-Kira
Darius the Great is Not Okay
The Minus-One Club
Fireborne
Akata Witch
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Your Lonely Nights are Over
The Way Back
Harvest House
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Other Words for Home
Leading the Way: Women in Power

Indigenous Voices in YA Fiction and Nonfiction

Elatsoe
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
Firekeeper's Daughter
Hearts Unbroken
Fire Song
He Who Dreams
This Place: 150 Years Retold
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
Found
Apple: Skin to the Core: A Memoir in Words and Pictures
Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection
If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel with Paintings
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Rez Ball
Surviving the City
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
Walking in Two Worlds
Man Made Monsters
Name Your Mountain
A Girl Called Echo. Vol. 1, Pemmican Wars

2024 Teen Book Bingo: Seasonal Setting

Pumpkinheads
The Starlight Claim
You have a match
This Poison Heart
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Winter, white and wicked
The Fall of Whit Rivera
Love from A to Z
Summer Days and Summer Nights : Twelve Love Stories
Tahira in Bloom
Ski Weekend
The Summer of Impossibilities
Harvest House
Stay Sweet
Whiteout
Lumberjanes True colors
Trapped
The Rest of the Story
Into the Bright Open
Lies like Wildfire
The Backups : a Summer of Stardom
When Dimple Met Rishi
Keep My Heart in San Francisco
Grow Your Own Pet Plants
¡Ay, Mija! : My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
The Forest Demands Its Due
The Girl from the Sea
Wild beauty
Earth Day and the Environmental Movement
The Raven Boys
Turtle in Paradise
Soul Surfer

2024 Teen Book Bingo: Short Story or Essay

Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight
Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Magic Has No Borders: A Collection of Magical South Asian Tales
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages
It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
Meet Cute
Death Note: Short Stories
High Spirits: Short Stories on Dominican Diaspora
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For
Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection
A Twisted Tale Anthology
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of Scythe
Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything In Between
Beyond the Promised Neverland
Battle of the Bands
This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us
Alone in Space: A Collection
Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home
Alex Rider, Secret Weapon: Seven Untold Adventures from the Life of a Teenaged Spy
The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

2024 Teen Book Bingo: School, Bookshop, or Library Setting

One Year at Ellsmere
Arden High: Twelfth Grade Night
The Library of Shadows
Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry From a Chicagoland High School
Band Nerds Confessions: Quotes from the 13th Chair Trombone Player
Today Tonight Tomorrow
Parachutes
The (Un)popular Vote
Not Here to Be Liked
In the Hall With the Knife
Don't Hate the Player
The Mary Shelley Club
Tell It True
David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets into an Ivy League College
A Lesson in Vengeance
What I Like About You
The Ivies
Dress Coded
The Black Kids
The Grimoire of Grave Fates
Afrotistic
Ghosted: A Northanger Abbey
Verona Comics
The Sound of Stars
Last Chance Books
The Library of Lost Things
Recommended For You
This Is All Your Fault
Amelia Unabridged
Love in Winter Wonderland
Suggested Reading
Sorcery of Thorns


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