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Books Discussed

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

Movie mentioned: Beasts of the Southern Wild

A Catalog of Burnt Objects by Shana Youngdahl

Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin

Red Car to Hollywood by Jennie Liu

Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen Zhao

Say a Little Prayer by Jenna Voris

Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation by Cara Meredith

The House No One Sees by Adina King

Messy Roots: A Graphic Novel of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao

Kirby’s Lessons for Falling (In Love) by Laura Gao

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle) by Tracy Deonn

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, illustrated by Debbie Fong

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma

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