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2010-2019 All CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) LGBTQI* Novel Physical Format

My Brother and His Brother

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Post date 3 December 2021
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18-year-old Jonas is trying to find out more about his brother Paul, who passed away before Jonas was born. Jonas’s wish to know what his brother was like turns into a mystery as he finds out Paul was in love with another boy before he died and his death is surrounded by loose ends.

Year of Release: 2011

Author(s): Håkan Lindquist

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10652379-my-brother-and-his-brother

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/My-Brother-His-H%C3%A5kan-Lindquist/dp/3959852525

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Tags family, growing up, LGBT, love, young adult literature

2000-2009 All CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Physical Format Poetry

Up from the Sea

This novel-in-verse tells the story of how a Japanese teenage boy, Kai, survived the devastating March 2011 tsunami that destroyed the village he lived in.

Year of Release: 2016

Author(s): Leza Lowitz

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25387133-up-from-the-sea

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/Up-Sea-Leza-Lowitz/dp/0553534777

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Tags family, growing up, young adult literature

2010-2019 All Audiobook CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

Monday’s Not Coming

How can Monday disappear without anyone noticing? A teenage girl is missing and only Claudia is worried. Claudia needs Monday more than ever and knows her best friend wouldn’t just leave her without saying anything, but Claudia cannot get any answers from Monday’s family.

Year of Release: 2018

Author(s): Tiffany D. Jackson

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068534-monday-s-not-coming

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/Mondays-Not-Coming-Tiffany-Jackson/dp/0062422677

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Tags family, mystery, young adult literature

2020-today All Audiobook CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

This is My America

This YA novel explores the connection between racism, injustices and the American criminal justice system. Tracy Beaumont is fighting to get her father out of prison, who is a Black man, wrongfully accused, and is now waiting on death row.

Year of Release: 2020

Author(s): Kim Johnson

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52855111-this-is-my-america

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/This-My-America-Kim-Johnson/dp/0593118766

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Tags blackness, crime, diversity, equality, family, racial injustices, young adult literature

2020-today All Audiobook CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

Indivisible

Daniel Aleman’s Indivisible explores immigration and deportation in America through Mateo Garcia’s story. Mateo is a teenage boy whose world gets shaken up when his parents get arrested by ICE agents. Now, Mateo faces new challenges and difficulties as he navigates caring for his younger sister while also questioning what it means to be an American.

Year of Release: 2021

Author(s): Daniel Aleman

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55425722-indivisible

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/Indivisible-Daniel-Aleman/dp/0759556059

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Tags deporation, diversity, family, growing up, immigration, young adult literature

2020-today All CEFR B1 CEFR B2 English Extracts - Well Suited for Teaching With Extracts High school (grades 9+) Medium Length (up to 8 hrs) Novel Physical Format Poetry Uncategorized

Poet X

Post author By Nicole
Post date 19 November 2021
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Poet X tells the story of teenage girl Xiomara growing up in the United States feeling lost and finding herself in the poetry she writes. The poet-style novel describes her family, school, and love life by mediating everyday struggles for teenager coming-off age. Intercultural and intergenerational tensions are evident in the book and challenge heteronormative assumptions of gender, age, and ethnicity.

Year of Release: 2020

Author(s): Elizabeth Alcevedo

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33294200-the-poet-x

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.de/Poet-X-Elizabeth-Acevedo-ebook/dp/B07RN4RJVP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1637328546&sr=8-1

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The chapters are written in verse form and can be used as extracts.

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Tags diversity, equality, family, growing up, immigration, love, poetry, school, teenager

2010-2019 All High school (grades 9+) LGBTQI*

With the Fire on High

The book tells the story of seventeen-year-old Emon’s life as a teenage mother living with her grandmother dealing with difficult decisions. Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with new boy Malachi and managing her small family’s life are daily tasks for the young woman. In order to manage them, the kitchen becomes the one place where she can let everything go and where the magic happens.

Year of Release: 2019

Author(s): Elizabeth Acevedo

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38739562-with-the-fire-on-high

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ISBN: 006266283X

ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B079WW2QKM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Tags belonging, diversity, equality, family, food, growing up, home, intercultural, LGBTQI, love, queerness, school, teenage pregnancy, traditions

2000-2009 All CEFR B2 Extensive Length (more than 8 hrs) High school (grades 9+) Other Text Formats Print

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir tells the story of her family in Iran during the Islamic Revolution in the 1980s. AFter a few years, Marjane’s family decided that she should be sent to Austria to live at a boarding school to avoid harassment. She talks about her homesickness, the discrimination she faced and how she coped with life in a strange culture.

Year of Release: 2002

Author(s): Marjane Satrapi

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/991197.The_Complete_Persepolis?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SBo8pdhzlK&rank=2

ISBN: 9780099523994

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Film also available: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/

Tags acculturation, family, graphhic memoir, immigration, Iran, Islam

2010-2019 All CEFR B2 High school (grades 9+) Medium Length (up to 8 hrs) Other Text Formats Print

I Was Their American Dream

Post author By Monika
Post date 1 November 2021
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Malaka Gharib grew up in the United States as a Filipino Egyptian American. Her parents divorced, and she stayed with her mother, visiting her dad in Egypt every summer. Throughout high school and college, she was seeking an answer to the question: Who am I? She had difficulty finding people with similar backgrounds, so she always felt she was the odd one out. Her graphic memoir tracks this journey.

Year of Release: 2019

Author(s): Malaka Gharib

Preview: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575400/i-was-their-american-dream-by-malaka-gharib/

Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40909448-i-was-their-american-dream?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ziTd6P5Egh&rank=1

ISBN: 9780525575122

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Chapter 4 deals with Malaka’s self-perception as a high school student torn between two parental cultures and the mainstream American culture.

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Tags coming of age, family, Filipino Egyptian, graphic memoir, identity, memoir

2000-2009 2010-2019 All CEFR B2 eBook High school (grades 9+) Medium Length (up to 8 hrs) Novel Print

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

Post author By Monika
Post date 1 November 2021
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The protagonist, Virginia Shreves, lives in a perfect family in New York, but feels a total outcast. Her parents and her siblings are slim and sporty, while Virginia suffers from low self-esteem due to her obesity. Her parents are devastated by her brother’s date-rape case, and they go into complete denial. Virginia takes her life into her own hands, joins a kickbox class to lose weight and makes new friends.

Year of Release: 2003, 2018

Author(s): Carolyn Mackler

Preview: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/earth-my-butt-and-other-big-round-things-9781681198002/

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ISBN: 9781681197982

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Very useful for moderate teenage slang.

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The 2003 edition is different from the new edition published in 2018.

Tags family, overweightness, self-perception, teen insecurity