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1) Dumplin'
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Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
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After his involvement in a bar fight, a fading TV star winds up under the care of a former ER therapist who finds herself falling hard for him.
4) Puddin'
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When circumstances put Millie Michalchuk and Callie Reyes together over the course of a semester, the girls realize they have more in common than they ever imagined.
5) Kiss & tell
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"Hunter never expected to be a boy band star, but, well, here he is. He and his band Kiss & Tell are on their first major tour of North America, playing arenas all over the United States and Canada (and getting covered by the gossipy press all over North America as well). Hunter is the only gay member of the band, and he just had a very painful breakup with his first boyfriend--leaked sexts, public heartbreak, and all--and now everyone expects him...
6) Ramona Blue
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Struggling with family problems and still living in a FEMA trailer years after Hurricane Katrina, lesbian teenager Ramona welcomes the return of her childhood friend Freddie but her shifting feelings for him cause her to question her sexual identity.
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"Sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and tía. At first, Christine struggles to connect with family they don’t yet share a language with. Seeing the places their mom grew up—the school she went to, the café where she had her first date with their father—Christine becomes more and more aware of the generational differences in their family. Soon Christine settles into life...
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Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly's totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily,...
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"Dumplin' meets True Blood in this paranormal romantic comedy from debut author Gloria Duke. Lily Baines is a plus size girl trying to deal with internalized sizeism, a well-meaning but critical mother, and a world determined not to take fat people seriously. She figures things can't get any harder...until she's turned into a vampire. Now she's left to grapple with a whole new crop of problems, including the fact that the body she's in (the body she...
10) Pumpkin
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"Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews truth. So when Clementine deviates from their master plan right after Waylon gets dumped, he throws caution to the wind and creates an audition...
11) Camp Sylvania
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"Magnolia 'Maggie' Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight . . . if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she’s been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn’t going to Camp Rising Star. She’s being shipped off to fat camp—and not just any fat camp. She’s going...
12) Watch us rise
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Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
13) For all time
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"Tamar is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. Fayard? He’s a pioneer, a hustler, a hopeless romantic. Together, Tamar and Fayard have lived a thousand lives, seen the world build itself up from nothing only to tear itself down again in civil war. They’ve even watched humanity take to the stars. But in each life one thing remains the same: their love and their fight to be together. One love story after another. Their only concern is they never get...
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"Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When she’s not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, she’s volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. Of course, there’s also that small matter of recently discovering she...
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Ever since her father's death, Jessica has struggled with the anger building inside her. And being one of the only out teens in school hasn't helped matters. But come sophomore year, all that changes when the effervescent Vivi crashes into her life. As their relationship blossoms, Vivi not only helps Jess deal with her pain, she also encourages her to enbrace her talent as an artist. Suddenly, the future is less like a blank canvas and more filled...
17) When We Collided
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We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing.
We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know . . .
Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along.
Vivi didn't know Jonah would light up her world.
Neither of them expected a summer like this . . . a summer that would rewrite their futures.
In an unflinching story about new love, old wounds, and...
We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know . . .
Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along.
Vivi didn't know Jonah would light up her world.
Neither of them expected a summer like this . . . a summer that would rewrite their futures.
In an unflinching story about new love, old wounds, and...
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"When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. To make the most of the time she has left, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs - however she sees fit. She convinces her friend Harvey to help her with a bucket list that's as much about revenge (humiliating her ex-boyfriend) as it is about hope (doing something unexpectedly kind for a stranger). But just when Alice's scores are settled, she goes into remission....
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Joanna meets the perfect girl for her and must decide whether to break a promise that could change everything for her and her family or lose out on love in this charming young adult romance that's perfect for fans of Julie Murphy's Dumplin' and Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.
Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta...
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