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1) Together, apart: stories

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A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life. -- Adapted from back cover and Goodreads info

2) Together, apart: stories

Description

A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life. -- Adapted from back cover and Goodreads info

3) Together, apart: stories

Description

A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life. -- Adapted from back cover and Goodreads info

4) Together, Apart

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A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.
Erin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her crush on TikTok, and Bill Konigsberg takes readers along on daily walks where every step brings two boys closer to love. There's roommates-to-enemies-to-something more from Rachael Lippincott,...

5) Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.

Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland,

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6) Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens

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An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators. The collection includes stories of interstellar war, a journey to Persia, a dating debacle. The teenaged characters reflect diverse colors, genders, and orientations-- without obscuring the realities of their disabilities. -- adapted from jacket

7) Black enough: stories of being young & Black in America

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A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.

8) A thousand beginnings and endings: 15 retellings of Asian myths and legends

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Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.

9) Take the mic: fictional stories of everyday resistance

10) It's a whole spiel: love, latkes, and other Jewish stories

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Locke, Katherine/ Silverman, Laura

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"From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be"-- Provided by publisher.

11) A universe of wishes: a we need diverse books anthology

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Book, eAudiobook

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A collection of fifteen fantasy stories written in partnership with the organization, We Need Diverse Books.

12) Color outside the lines: stories about love

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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An anthology of YA stories that explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships. They're about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter. They're about handling relationships where differences are front and center. And they're about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flower festival, a garden of poisons, and so, so much else. -- adapted from jacket...

13) A tyranny of petticoats: 15 stories of belles, bank robbers & other badass girls

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.

14) Slasher girls & monster boys

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"Inspired by classic tales and films, a collection of fourteen short stories ranging from bloody horror, to psychological thrillers, to supernatural creatures, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, by acclaimed YA authors of every genre"-- Provided by publisher.

15) Rural voices: 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America

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"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...

16) Out there: into the queer new yonder

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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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"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"-- Provided by publisher.

18) Every body shines: sixteen stories about living fabulously fat

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Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

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"Sixteen stories celebrating fat teens with bodies of many shapes and from many communities, cultures, races, genders, and orientations in contemporary settings as well as fictional worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

19) Come on in: 15 stories about immigration and finding home

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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This collection features stories from bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors.