JCL Suggested Summer Reading 2023: TeensLike this list

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• All of Us Villains

  Foody, Amanda,

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  Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Button War

  a Tale of the Great War

  Avi, 1937-

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  Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dress Coded

  Firestone, Carrie,

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  An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion.

• Girls Save the World in This One

  Parsons, Ash,

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  When ZombieCon comes to their small town, June and her best friends battle long lines for photo ops, meet their favorite actors, and save the world from actual zombies when things get real.

• Look Both Ways

  a Tale Told in Ten Blocks

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school.

• Super Adjacent

  Cestari, Crystal

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  Claire has always wanted to work with superheroes, from collecting Warrior Nation cards as a kid to drafting "What to Say to a Hero" speeches in her diary. Now that she's landed a coveted internship with the Chicago branch of Warrior Nation, Claire…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Superman Smashes the Klan

  the Graphic Novel

  Yang, Gene Luen,

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  When Dr. Lee moves his family to Metropolis, his son Tommy adjusts to the new neighborhood while daugher Roberta feels out of place, so when the evil Klan of the Fiery Cross begins a string of terrorist attacks on the city, Superman fights them, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• War and Speech

  Zolidis, Don,

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  Sydney is determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school until she starts falling for the team's star member and sees she has a chance of shedding her "loser" status.

• We Are Not Free

  Chee, Traci,

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  For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When We Were Magic

  Gailey, Sarah,

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  When Alexis accidentally kills a classmate on prom night using magic, her best friends Roya, Iris, Paulie, Marcelina, and Maryam join in using their powers to try to set things right.