For Black Girls Like Me

The House on Mango Street

Fighting Words

The Only Black Girls in Town

Marcelo in the Real World

Sundae Girl

Twisted

The Trouble with Zinny Weston

A coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.

Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it.

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Fighting Words

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The Only Black Girls in Town

Brandy Colbert, 2020

Marcelo in the Real World

Francisco X. Stork, 2008

Sundae Girl

Cathy Cassidy, 2007

Twisted

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The Trouble with Zinny Weston

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