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• Heartstopper. 1

  Oseman, Alice

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  Concern: Inappropriate due to LGBTQIA+ content. Series Description: British webcomic featuring the deepening relationship between anxious Charlie and outgoing Nick.

• Dumplin'

  Murphy, Julie, 1965-

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  Concern: Sexual content and coarse language. Book Description: Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This One Summer

  Tamaki, Mariko

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  Concern: LGBTQIA+ characters, drug use, sexually explicit. Book Description: Rose's latest summer at a beach lake house is overshadowed by her parents' constant arguments, her younger friend's secret sorrows, and the dangerous activities…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Betty

  the Helen Betty Osborne Story

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  Concern: Graphic representation of sensitive content. Book Description: This is a story of a Cree woman who was kidnapped and murdered in 1971.

• Beyond Magenta

  Transgender Teens Speak Out

  Kuklin, Susan

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  Concern: Sexual activity, LGBTQIA+ content. Book Description: This title draws on six first-person interviews to share compassionate insights into the teen transgender experience. It traces each individual's emotional and physical journey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Concern: Profanity, sexual references, use of a derogatory term. Book Description: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the Wolf

  Miller-Schroeder, Patricia

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  Concern: Complaints from Indigenous families. Book Description: Set in the Ice Age, Sisters of the Wolf tells the story of two 13-year-old girls who find a spirit guide and guardian in Tewa, a powerful wolf.

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  Concern: LGBTQIA+ characters, sexually explicit, offensive language, age-inappropriate. Charlie attempts to navigate through the uncharted territory of high school: the world of first dates and mix-tapes, family dramas and new friends.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Go Ask Alice

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  Concern: Profanity, sexually explicit. Book Description: A novel in diary form of a fifteen-year-old girl's journey from a secure middle-class family to the nightmare world of drug addiction, hustlers, and dealers.

• Gossip Girl

  Von Ziegesar, Cecily

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  Concern: Sexually explicit, age-inappropriate. Book Description: When the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to Spenford after mysteriously getting kicked out of boarding school, gossip flies among the privileged students at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation