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Teen Mental Health and Well-being Collection
General Teen, for ages 13–18: Sensitively curated by our in-house educators, this mental health and wellness collection for teens offers strong protagonists facing life's challenges. Award-winning authors explore multiple mental health experiences in teen-centered narratives with the aims to reduce stigma around mental health challenges and champion resilience in adolescence. Contact us for additional suggestions at quotes@leeandlow.com.
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Black Was the Ink
By Michelle Coles, Justin JohnsonView DetailsThrough the help of a ghostly ancestor, sixteen-year-old Malcolm is sent on a journey through Reconstruction-era America to find his place in modern-day Black progress.
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Blessing's Bead
By Debby Dahl EdwardsonView DetailsNow in paperback: the acclaimed middle-grade novel tracing four generations of an Iñupiaq family in Alaska, which the Washington Post praised as "a rare and beautiful book."
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Boy, Everywhere
By A. M. DassuView Details
Fight Back
By A. M. DassuView DetailsAmina's Voice meets A Good Kind of Trouble in this story about 13-year-old Aaliyah, who feels alone after putting on a hijab for the first time, but finds friends and allies through organizing a protest at her school.
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House of Purple Cedar
By Tim TingleView DetailsA Choctaw tale of tragedy, good and evil, revenge and ultimately forgiveness, laced with healing Choctaw humor and a little magical realism thrown in.
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I Am Alfonso Jones
By Tony Medina, John Jennings, Stacey RobinsonView Details
Kicked Out
By A. M. DassuView DetailsIn this stand-alone companion novel to the acclaimed Boy, Everywhere, A. M. Dassu returns to extend the story of Sami's best friend Ali, who organizes a charity soccer match for their friend Aadam while his whole life is privately unraveling.
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Safe Passage
By G. Neri, David BrameView DetailsFrom Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Yummy G. Neri comes an epic journey across the South Side of Chicago for Darius, his little sister Cissy, and his best friend Booger as they set out to find an armored truck that has lost a payload of cash.
Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
By Supriya KelkarView DetailsIn 1857 India, 13-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people.
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Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCallView Details
The Moonlit Vine
By Elizabeth Santiago, McKenzie MayleView DetailsFourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community?
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The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
By Claudia Guadalupe MartínezView Details
Under the Mesquite
By Guadalupe García McCallView DetailsLupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's long illness.
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