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Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser--a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro aggressions and...
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All the sixth graders at Memorial Middle School are talking about one thing: their first boy-girl party. Lucia's had enough talk about what to wear and who's going with who. If her best friend hadn't insisted, she wouldn't even go to the dumb party. But after she gets to know Adesh, she starts to thinking maybe this boy-girl party won't be so bad. Too bad he's interested in another girl. Supported with a glossary and reader response questions, this...
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Claudia Jones disappeared for months, then returned mysteriously to Blithedale High School with a strange but palpable--perhaps supernatural--aura, prompting questions about whether aliens abducted her. Nigel feels the aura strongly; Brett, Nigel's sort-of romantic rival, tries to keep distant from everyone; Emily breaks away from them both, but rushes into a predator in "nice-guy" clothing; and Paula is about to experience a breakthrough that will...