List: 2023 Teen Reading Challenge: Books With Two Authors or More
Sisters of the Snake
Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When their collide, everything turns on its head: Ria and Rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. A deal is struck to switch places, but danger lurks in both worlds. To save their home, thief and princess must work together... or watch it all fall into ruin.
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Blackout
Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark.
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Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends.
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Hello Girls
Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station, both deciding whether to turn their families in for abuse and mistreatment. They realize they can't wait until graduation to start their new lives. They need out. Now. All they need is three grand, fast. And really, a stolen convertible to take them from Michigan to Las Vegas can't hurt.
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Beyond the End of the World
Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something--someone--behind. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. In their desperation to reunite and save their people, Nimh and North face one ultimate question: can they defy their love and their destiny to save their homes? Or will the spark between them ignite their worlds, and consume them all together?
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Living Beyond Borders: Growing up Mexican in America
An anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, and comics about the Mexican American experience.
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Miss Meteor
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust. She teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
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Punching the Air
A powerful novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.
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Arden High: Twelfth Grade Night
Vi came to Arden High for a fresh start and a chance to wear beanies and button-ups instead of uniform skirts. And though doing it without her twin feels like being split in half, Vi finds her stride when she stumbles (literally!) into broody and beautiful poet-slash-influencer, Orsino. Soon Vi gets roped into helping plan the school's Twelfth Grade Night dance, and she can't stop dreaming about slow dancing with Orsino under the fairy lights in the gym. The problem? All Vi's new friends assume she's not even into guys. And before Vi can ask Orsino to the dance, he recruits Vi to help woo his crush, Olivia. Who has a crush of her own . . . on Vi.
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Battle of the Bands
For many, the Raritan River High School Battle of the Bands is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform onstage for their peers and maybe win a real recording session. For others it is a too-loud obligation or a chaotic test of their technological and organizational know-how. But for all it is a chance to live a different kind of life from the one they usually live... if only for one night, if only for one song.
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Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home
This collection illuminates myriad facets of the immigrant experience, from authors who have been shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home, to find home.
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Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder
A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
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Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales across Realms & Space
In this collection of stories by acclaimed young adult authors, the Latin American diaspora travels to places of fantasy and out into space.
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Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed
Stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, and love that's been there all along from ten of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA. Some of your favorite romantic tropes have been turned them on their heads. Readers will swoon for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.
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At Midnight: Fifteen Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined
A collection of fifteen original and retold fairy tales, reimagined with fresh perspectives and unexpected twists.
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The Rumor Game
At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to reinvent herself--but who can stop a dangerous rumor once it takes on a life of its own?
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and Black, centering on the experiences of Black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
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Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven
While Raven Roth is finding a way to get rid of her demon father Trigon, Garfield Logan is understanding his newly found shapeshifting ability, and when their paths cross in Nashville they both feel a strong connection to one another.
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
After an incident at school, seventeen-year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project," toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom, and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
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Twin Crowns
Twin princesses Wren and Rose, separated at birth and raised in two different environments, meet for the first time when they have to fight for the throne while juggling their romantic pursuits.
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The Other Side of the Sky
Prince North's home is in the sky, in a gleaming city held aloft by intricate engines, powered by technology. Nimh is the living goddess of her people on the Surface, responsible for providing answers, direction--hope. North's and Nimh's lives are entwined--though their hearts can never be. Linked by a terrifying prophecy and caught between duty and fate, they must choose between saving their people or succumbing to the bond that is forbidden between them.
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Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
Prominent Black creators lend their voice, their insight, and their talent to an inspiring anthology that celebrates Black culture and Black life. Essays, poems, short stories, and historical excerpts blend with spellbinding art to capture the pride, prestige, and jubilation that is being Black in America. In these pages, find the stories of the past, the journeys of the present, and the light guiding the future.
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Demon in the Wood: A Shadow and Bone Graphic Novel
Before he led Ravka's Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. But they will never find a safe haven. They are not only Grisha--they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind. Feared by those who wish to destroy them and hunted by those who would exploit their gifts, they must hide their true abilities wherever they go. But sometimes deadly secrets have a way of revealing themselves...
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That Way Madness Lies: Fifteen of William Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined
These fifteen reimaginings of Shakespeare's classic works include a midsummer's dance in a gym, a cast party amongst the star, and an ode to a fallen rap legend. The authors put a modern spin on the works for contemporary audiences.
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