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• I Love You So Mochi

  Kuhn, Sarah (Author),

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  "I'm supposed to be embarking on a quest of self discovery, but I keep getting lost. I don't mean that in the super introspective, "let's talk about my feelings" kind of way. I mean I literally don't know where I am."

• Bright Red Fruit

  Elhillo, Safia,

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  "All the aunties in the neighborhood love to remember that i was a sweet kid laughing & dimple & addectionate & these reveries always end with a sigh as they look at me now, sixteen & what they call, sorrowfully, boy crazy but ever since i was small…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maid and the Crocodile

  Ifueko, Jordan,

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  "You are powerful and important, and I am only me. But I am told you are a good listener, and if I do not look into your eyes, I am a little less afraid. So I will try to tell my story without lies."

• The Lies We Conjure

  Henning, Sarah,

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  "The old woman arrives at the Ye Olde Falafel Shoppe not with an order, but with a question. "Are you sisters?""

• It Waits in the Forest

  Dass, Sarah,

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  "My mother always said that guilt had a scent. That it was as acrid as unripe akee fruit and just as toxic. She claimed she could smell it on a person like the tang of unwashed skin. That it hung in the air like the scent of oncoming rain,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Play the Game

  Allen, Charlene Y.,

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  ""I got a plan," Jack says, falling in step beside me as I come up out of the subway. "For tonight. You understand what's going down tonight, right?" He drops a lanky arm across my shoulder. Classic. Ambushes me at the subway, and now I'm…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Killer House Party

  Anderson, Lily, 1988-

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  "After a lifetime of being perfect, I was overdue for something extraordinarily stupid. Throwing a house party in a haunted house was next level. This was life-or-death. My entire future was at stake."

• Ace of Spades

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah,

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  "First-day-back assemblies are the most pointless practice ever. And that's saying a lot, seeing as Niveus Academy is a school that runs on pointlessness. We're seated in Lion Hall - names after one of those donors who give money to private…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Haru Was Here

  Thao, Dustin,

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  "Sometimes it's the little things we remember the most. Like the way Jasmine never finishes a book because she'd afraid of the ending. Or the way she saves those paper fortunes from the restaurant when she wants them to come true. Or how she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kill Her Twice

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather),

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  "In 1932, Los Angeles was a city of reinvention. It was a place where mountains could be moved and rivers reshaped, where even the stars could fall from the sky and walk around on Earth. The blood of an Angeleno coursed through the veins like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

  Sáenz, Benjamin Alire,

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  "I have a memory that is almost like a dream: the yellow leaves from Mima's mulberry tree are floating down from the sky like giant snowflakes. The November sun is shining, the breeze is cool, and the afternoon shadows are dancing with a life that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Book Won't Burn

  Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer),

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  "Fire isn't the only thing that can burn you. Fire, at least, tells the truth. It doesn't disguise what it is. What it can do. How it can turn everything in your life into ash in a split second. Sure, it provides heat, warmth. It's a necessity…Read moreRead more of this annotation