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See picks from all bookstoresWandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cue...
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek... Read more
View audiobookEverything Sad is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories,... Read more
View audiobookJoan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang... Read more
You Should See Me in a Crown
By: Leah Johnson
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana,... Read more
View audiobookThe Bad Muslim Discount
By: Syed M. Masood
Narrated by: Pej Vahdat & Hend Ayoub
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.
“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East... Read more
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
By: Tae Keller
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Carolyn Kang & Tae Keller
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal for When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller offers a gripping and emotional story about friendship, bullying, and the possiblity that there's more in the universe than just us.
Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally alone in the universe...but what if we aren't alone at... Read more
Troublemaker
By: John Cho
Narrated by: John Cho
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Troublemaker follows the events of the LA Riots through the eyes of 12-year-old Jordan as he navigates school and family. This book will highlight the unique Korean American perspective.
12-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set, or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping... Read more
King and the Dragonflies
By: Kacen Callender
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry! In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself.Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother... Read more
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