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Summer Reading 2019: Realistic Fiction

Heavy Issues

Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson
Call Number: FIC AND
ISBN: 9780399547614
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
Call Number: FIC BLI
ISBN: 9780062494276
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
Call Number: FIC BLA
ISBN: 9781328778239
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani; Viviana Mazza
Call Number: FIC NWU
ISBN: 9780062696724
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: FIC STO
ISBN: 9781101939499
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Call Number: FIC NEL
ISBN: 9780803734968
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
Call Number: FIC LAC
ISBN: 9780525425892
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
Call Number: FIC OSH
ISBN: 9781250167026
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Tradition by Brendan Kiely
Call Number: FIC KIE
ISBN: 9781481480345
Publication Date: 2018-05-01

Something in Between

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
Call Number: FIC KHA
ISBN: 9781338227017
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
Call Number: FIC KON
ISBN: 9781338215502
Publication Date: 2019-02-26
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Call Number: FIC THO
ISBN: 9780062498564
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: FIC ACE
ISBN: 9780062662804
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
Call Number: FIC CAL
ISBN: 9781481415200
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
Call Number: FIC MCC
ISBN: 9781512448467
Publication Date: 2018-10-01
Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
Call Number: FIC ZEN
ISBN: 9781524720209
Publication Date: 2019-02-26
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Call Number: FIC KHO
ISBN: 9780525552963
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Call Number: FIC GIL
ISBN: 9781484726020
Publication Date: 2018-04-10

Something A Little More Upbeat: Romance, Comedy, and Otherwise Uplifting Books

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
Call Number: FIC MUR
ISBN: 9780062327185
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson; Ellen Hagan
Call Number: FIC WAT
ISBN: 9781547600083
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Call Number: FIC ROW
ISBN: 9781250030955
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli; Adam Silvera
Call Number: FIC ALB
ISBN: 9780062795250
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Call Number: FIC SMI
ISBN: 9780763681142
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Call Number: FIC ZOB
ISBN: 9780062564047
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
Call Number: FIC HAN
ISBN: 9781442426702
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
American Panda by Gloria Chao
Call Number: FIC CHA
ISBN: 9781481499101
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi
Call Number: FIC AHM
ISBN: 9780425289877
Publication Date: 2018-02-06