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- List: Best Fiction for Young Adults
- List: Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Fiction
- Award year: 2016
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All The Rage
Since Romy Grey accused the sheriff's son of rape, she has been ostracized and bullied by the community. When her former friend goes missing after a party Romy must decide if she's willing to raise her voice against the cultural tides of silence and sham -
Audacity
After emigrating from Russia to America, Clara defiantly pursues an education and becomes a union organizer. Despite being beaten, jailed, and blacklisted, she refuses to be silenced. -
Dime
Dime is looking for love and security when she finds Daddy, Brandy, and L.A. She believes she is loved even as she is groomed to work as a prostitute. When a much younger girl joins their “family,” Dime realizes that she has to break the cycle. -
Dumplin'
After deciding to enter Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Beauty Pageant, Willowdean and her friends defy expectations based on beauty and gain a greater sense of confidence and self worth. -
Kissing in America
Sixteen-year-old Eva Roth confronts the complexities of grief, relationships, and love of all kinds as she begins to forge her own voice and path as a woman and a poet. -
Paper Hearts
Based on a true story, this novel in verse gives voice to a group of young women who banded together to survive and reclaim their personhood in the face of the dehumanizing cruelty of Auschwitz. -
These Shallow Graves
Not satisfied with the prospect of marriage and settling into an idle existence, Jo Montfort risks her fortune, family, friends and life when she defies society's expectations by investigating the mysterious death of her father. -
Under A Painted Sky
In 1849, on the run from the law and disguised as boys, Sammy and Andy work together to survive and seek their freedom in the face of racism, sexism, stampedes, and deadly disease.