Short 'n sweet
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW Teen Book Bingo 2024 category: Short 'n sweet. Short stories, essays, articles, book under 250 pages-- we're looking for short and accessible here! Teen Book Bingo is our teen summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Baby Teeth
Fiction. A lonely vampire named Immy falls for compassionate flower shop employee Claudia, a human, in Grehan’s layered, hopeful novel in verse. (Publishers Weekly) 192 pages.
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The Baker and the Bard
Fiction. A quest for a magical ingredient takes two young heroes on a fantastical environmental adventure. Sweet and satisfying. (Kirkus) (GN) 160 pages.
Format: Graphic Novel
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Eyes of the Forest
Fiction. Seventeen-year-old Bridget is both an employee of author RM Haldon and his biggest fan, so when she starts to receive cryptic emails from him after he goes missing, she teams up with her friend to find Haldon. 240 pages.
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Everyone Dies Famous in A Small Town
Fiction. Small-town teens across the American West experience heartbreak and healing in this linked short story collection. (Kirkus) 208 pages. Short stories.
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Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
Nonfiction. From preschool to higher education and everything in between, Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as a direct result of the racism built into schools across the United States. Essays,
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Cardboard City
Fiction. Young Romani teens, Saida and Nikola, dream of escaping from the harsh discrimination and crushing poverty of life in a squatter settlement in Belgrade, Serbia. 128 pages.
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Make Me A Liar
Fiction. Body-swapping can be a neat side hustle—until it gets you framed for murder. (Kirkus) 240 pages.
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A Guide to the Dark
Fiction. Stranded at the Wildwood Motel while on their spring break road trip, Mira and Layla discover eight people died in their room and set out to find the connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside Room 9. 240 pages.
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Ida in the Middle
Fiction. Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents’ village near Jerusalem. An important coming of age story that explores identity, place, voice, and belonging. 223 pages.
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How to Love
Nonfiction. A popular web comic artist presents this humorous, honest handbook, inclusive of all genders and sexualities, that offers valuable insights on everything from first love to self-love and love ever after. (GN) 224 pages.
Format: Graphic Novel
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