Kelly highlights some of the most exciting YA nonfiction hitting shelves this fall, including several works of graphic nonfiction.

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Books Discussed

Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote by Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau (September 10)

Shift Happens by J. Albert Mann

Unequal: A Story of America by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau

Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow (September 10)

Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known by George M. Johnson and illustrated by Charly Palmer (September 24)

Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America by Achut Deng, Keely Hutton (October 8)

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Side Quest: A Visual History of Role Playing Games by Samuel Sattin and Steenz (October 8)

Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari (October 15)

Ay, Mija by Christine Suggs 

I Was There American Dream by Malaka Gahrib

Visitations by Corey Egbert (November 19)

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