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Flyy Girl
By Omar Tyree. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living her own life. She wants what she wants and will do anything to get it. But when her choices threaten her livelihood, Tracy begins to examine her life, her goals, and her sexuality.
Does my Head Look Big in This?
By Randa Abdel-Fattah. Sixteen-year-old Amal decides to embrace her faith by wearing the cloth headdress, the hijab, full time, even if it makes her differences obvious on the outside.
The Tequila worm
By Viola Canales. Sofia tells stories of her life in the barrio, both before and after she receives a scholarship to an elite boarding school and leaves her home and family. The Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Honor (2006).
A World Away
By Nancy Grossman. Sixteen-year-old Eliza was raised Amish, and has never experienced anything outside of her community until she leaves to spend the summer as a nanny in suburban Chicago.
Hush
By Eishes Chayil and Judy Brown. Inside a closed community, Gittel lives by the ancient rules of hasidic Judaism. When Gittel learns that her best friend has suffered abuse at the hands of a family member, the adults in her community try to persuade Gittel, and themselves, that nothing happened. Forced to remain silent, Gittel begins to question everything she was raised to believe. William C Morris YA Debut Award Nominee (2011).
Estrella's Quinceañera
By Malin Alegria. Fifteen-year-old Estrella Alvarez is dreading her quinceañera, a birthday celebration that is supposed to mark her transition from childhood to adulthood. She thinks she already knows who she is, but thanks to some new friends, she is starting to realize she doesn't know as much as she thinks she does.