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  • Arab American Voices
  • Childhood Favorites
  • Award-Winning
  • 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

Arab American Voices in YA Fiction and Nonfiction

A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
Mirage
Home Is Not a Country
We Hunt the Flame
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories
Not the Girls You're Looking For
Here We Are Now
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
This Is All Your Fault
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix
Huda F Are You
The Next New Syrian Girl
Other Words for Home
Court of Lions

2024 Teen Book Bingo: Childhood Favorite

The Lightning Thief
Ada Twist, Scientist
El Deafo
Into the Wild
The War That Saved My Life
The Crossover
Kristy's Great Idea : A Graphic Novel
A Wrinkle in Time
The Bad Beginning
Better Nate Than Ever
New Kid
Fish In a Tree
Salt to the Sea
Brown Girl Dreaming
Eragon
Esperanza Rising
One Crazy Summer
Divergent
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
The Wild Robot
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Out of My Mind
Chasing Vermeer
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
The Giver
Artemis Fowl
The Tale of Despereaux
Holes
Greg Heffley's Journal
The Graveyard Book
Wonder
Guinness World Records.

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: Award-Winning

The Poet X
The Crossover
Far From the Tree
Firekeeper's Daughter
New Kid
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
The House of the Scorpion
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
The Silence Between Us
This is My Brain in Love
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
The Last Cuentista
The Red Palace
When Stars are Scattered
Dig
March. Book Three
Furia
Everything Sad is Untrue
Ghost
Man Made Monsters
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Cursed
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
All My Rage
Piecing Me Together
The Serpent King
The Book Thief
The Hate U Give
They Called Us Enemy
Nimona
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Concrete Rose


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