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    • By: Elizabeth Acevedo
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,663 ratings
    • Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking....

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    • By: Zoulfa Katouh
    • Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope, love, and possibility....

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    • By: Julia Alvarez
    • Narrated by: Julia Alvarez
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family....

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    • By: Jenny Torres Sanchez
    • Narrated by: Marisa Blake
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner....

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    • DC Icons Series
    • By: Matt de la Peña
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Series: DC Icons
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 712 ratings
    • When Clark Kent follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and discovers a dark secret lurking in Smallville. Turns out, Clark's not the only one hiding something....

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    • By: Ibi Zoboi
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 794 ratings
    • In this debut novel, Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture....

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    • By: Margaret P. Haddix
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • The year is 1910, and the working conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory are deplorable....

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    • Growing Up Mexican in America
    • By: Margarita Longoria
    • Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz, Kyla Garcia, Margarita Longoria
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, and poetry, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican Americans....

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    • By: Jennifer De Leon
    • Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • First-generation American Latinx Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand....

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    • By: Sacha Lamb
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In publishing-speak, here's what we at the LQ office sometimes describe as the Queer lovechild of Sholem Aleichem and Philip Roth: Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl....

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    • A Pride & Prejudice Remix
    • By: Ibi Zoboi
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,121 ratings
    • In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, critically acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic....

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    • By: Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher
    • Narrated by: Paola Mendoza
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Cofounder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near-future dystopian tale where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary....

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    • By: Thanhhà Lai
    • Narrated by: LuLu Lam
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. In a split second, Linh is ripped from her arms - and Hằng is left behind in the war-torn country....

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    • Wolves of No World, Book 1
    • By: Romina Garber
    • Narrated by: Sol Madariaga
    • Series: Wolves of No World Series, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. As an undocumented immigrant who's on the run from her father's Argentine crime family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida....

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    • By: Emily X.R. Pan
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Hsu
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 438 ratings
    • Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird....

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    • By: Kelly Yang
    • Narrated by: Cassie Simone, Karissa Vacker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • They’re called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she’d be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai....

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    • By: MJ Auch
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The honest and compelling story of a young girl's newfound independence, from her entrance into a new country to her frightening involvement in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911....

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