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Dang. This book right here is powerful. Follow Safiya as she investigates the murder of a young boy that no one seems to miss while grappling with a growing white supremacist sect within her Chicago high school. Interspersed with news articles and interviews, this novel deals with important issues that I have yet to see addressed in teen fiction.

Sometimes you just want a sweet story about three orphans trying to trick a family into adopting them. William, Edmund, and Anna are a bookish bunch trying to navigate life as evacuee children in the English countryside during World War II. This novel is the epitome of heartwarming. The perfect book to curl up with on a rainy day.

A delightful middle grade fantasy filled with high-stakes competition, quirky characters, and a richly imagined world. This is the perfect book to break you out of a reading slump!

When I saw there was a middle grade book with Typhoid Mary coming out, I knew I had to read it. What I didn't expect was to learn about was the PS General Slocum, a steamboat that caught fire in New York City's East River, killing nearly all the inhabitants of Little Germany. This touching and mysterious ghost story deals with grief, anxiety, perseverance in a mature but accessible way.

I almost didn't include this because it seems obvious, but I think it's often overlooked because it's so obvious? Everyone's heard of it, everyone knows it's great, but have you actually read it? I have—three times—and it unfortunately seems to become more and more relevant with each reading.

I first read this book for school in eighth grade. My teacher, Mrs. Edwards, read it aloud to us a little bit every day while we ate goldfish crackers and decompressed after our math and science classes. I have since read it three more times, and each time it evokes the calm of curling up with some goldfish crackers, the joy of dancing in the rain, and the self-love of one of the sweetest novels I've ever read.

Picture it: You're out on the patio with a beverage of your choice (mine is coffee with a generous helping of International Delight Cold Stone Sweet Cream coffee creamer), surrounded by plants, with a warm dog at your feet and K. O'Neill's gorgeous book in front of you. This was the perfectly cozy environment when I first read this delightful graphic novel and it is exactly the vibe that this book evokes.

Funny, adorable, and heartwarming. This charming graphic novel tells the story of Buster, a timid housecat, tasked with ridding his home of the demons that are causing his human's depression. This is the perfect book for whenever you need a quick pick-me-up and I look forward to Buster's upcoming adventures.

A deeply moving mystery following Daunis Firekeeper as she investigates a mysterious drug that is plaguing her Ojibwe community. It grapples with the idea of which crimes are investigated and its victims mourned versus which ones are ignored. Teens and grown-ups alike have a lot to learn from this one, there's a reason it won all the awards.