Leah Johnson
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that's been there all along, ten of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Readers will swoon for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars . . . an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels . . . two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station . . . people are forced to travel to the past or the future to escape the dying planet . . . only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future . . . everyone in the world...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redfines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
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