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A review by bickie
Fresh Ink by Lamar Giles
4.0
Mostly realistic fiction; a couple of fantasy (Myers, Older, Yoon). Flake's story takes place during WW2. Wide variety of voices typically underrepresented in published fiction.
Eraser Tattoo by Jason Reynolds is about a young couple (could be 7th through 12th grade) saying goodbye when one moves from Brooklyn to Wilmington, NC.
Meet Cute by Malinda Lo is about two girls (also about 7th-12th grade) who meet and hit it off at the Denver Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention dressed as Scully and a "gender-flipped Sulu."
Don't Pass Me By by Eric Gansworth is about a 7th grader from The Rez and the different ways that he and other Rez kids handle being in school with a predominantly white population.
Be Cool for Once by Aminah Mae Safi is about a high school girl and her friend who run into the girl's major crush at a small indie concert.
Tags by Walter Dean Myers is written in play form and features four teens, aged 16 and 17, who are victims of senseless violence [includes a few lines of cursing].
Why I Learned to Cook by Sara Farizan is about a high school girl who is out to her parents as bisexual but is unsure about how her Persian grandmother, with whom she has dinner every Friday night, will react to her girlfriend.
A Stranger at the Bochinche by Daniel José Older is a fantasy about a white stranger who steals stories and inventions from a non-white group and the 17-year-old who tries to thwart him.
A Boy's Duty by Sharon G. Flake is about a Black boy who runs away from his father's farm at 12 and makes his way on the streets, balancing his dreams of being an astronomer and navigator in the military with his ideas about duty and how he is pulled in different directions including by a charismatic street gang leader.
One Voice by Melissa de la Cruz is about an undocumented student at Stanford from the Philippines whose shaky sense of belonging is challenged by hateful graffiti, creating a rift in her relationship with a privileged white-looking half-Mexican politician's son.
Paladin/Samurai by Gene Luen Yang is told in graphic novel format and features 4 friends playing Swords and Spells, a game created by Wujae; after a disagreement about whether a character is a paladin or a samurai (the boy playing the character is half Japanese and prefers to be a samurai), they have a bonding experience at a neighbor's party and find strength as a team.
Catch, Pull, Drive by Schuyler Bailar is about a trans male's experience on his first day at swim team practice as a male, which includes a bully, a non-committal coach, and an ally.
Super Human by Nicola Yoon is about a girl who is sent to stop the super hero X from destroying humanity.
Eraser Tattoo by Jason Reynolds is about a young couple (could be 7th through 12th grade) saying goodbye when one moves from Brooklyn to Wilmington, NC.
Meet Cute by Malinda Lo is about two girls (also about 7th-12th grade) who meet and hit it off at the Denver Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention dressed as Scully and a "gender-flipped Sulu."
Don't Pass Me By by Eric Gansworth is about a 7th grader from The Rez and the different ways that he and other Rez kids handle being in school with a predominantly white population.
Be Cool for Once by Aminah Mae Safi is about a high school girl and her friend who run into the girl's major crush at a small indie concert.
Tags by Walter Dean Myers is written in play form and features four teens, aged 16 and 17, who are victims of senseless violence [includes a few lines of cursing].
Why I Learned to Cook by Sara Farizan is about a high school girl who is out to her parents as bisexual but is unsure about how her Persian grandmother, with whom she has dinner every Friday night, will react to her girlfriend.
A Stranger at the Bochinche by Daniel José Older is a fantasy about a white stranger who steals stories and inventions from a non-white group and the 17-year-old who tries to thwart him.
A Boy's Duty by Sharon G. Flake is about a Black boy who runs away from his father's farm at 12 and makes his way on the streets, balancing his dreams of being an astronomer and navigator in the military with his ideas about duty and how he is pulled in different directions including by a charismatic street gang leader.
One Voice by Melissa de la Cruz is about an undocumented student at Stanford from the Philippines whose shaky sense of belonging is challenged by hateful graffiti, creating a rift in her relationship with a privileged white-looking half-Mexican politician's son.
Paladin/Samurai by Gene Luen Yang is told in graphic novel format and features 4 friends playing Swords and Spells, a game created by Wujae; after a disagreement about whether a character is a paladin or a samurai (the boy playing the character is half Japanese and prefers to be a samurai), they have a bonding experience at a neighbor's party and find strength as a team.
Catch, Pull, Drive by Schuyler Bailar is about a trans male's experience on his first day at swim team practice as a male, which includes a bully, a non-committal coach, and an ally.
Super Human by Nicola Yoon is about a girl who is sent to stop the super hero X from destroying humanity.