Johnson, Leah

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

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Johnson, Leah

Summary: Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to work around the clock . Not at the bakery, where she helps out old Mr. Walker on the weekends. And definitely not at school, where her best friend Abby--the coolest, boldest, most talented girl in the world--drags Ellie along on her never-ending quest to "make her mark."...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023

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Summary: A collection of ten stories from award-winning YA authors celebrates first love, unrequited love, surprising love, and love that's been there all along.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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Summary: A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022

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Weber, Leah

Summary: "L'shana tova! This Rosh Hashanah, celebrate family and a bright future."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2024

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