If I Ever Get Out of Here

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Amina's Song: Amina's Voice

Wild Awake

Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family

Analee, In Real Life

Tricks

And Then Things Fall Apart

Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the reservation and off. A rock band -- and winning the local Battle of the Bands, with its first prize of a trip to New York City -- is his best shot. But things keep getting in the way. Small matters like the lack of an actual band, or the fact that his brother just got shot confronting the racist owner of a local restaurant.

Maggi Bokoni has just moved back to the reservation from the city with her family. She's dying to stop making the same traditional artwork her family sells to tourists (conceptual stuff is cooler), stop feeling out of place in her new (old) home, and stop being treated like a child. She might like to fall in love for the first time too.

Carson and Maggi -- along with their friend Lewis -- will navigate loud protests, even louder music, and first love in this novel about coming together in a world defined by difference.

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If I Ever Get Out of Here

Eric Gansworth, 2013

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Samira Ahmed, 2020

Amina's Song: Amina's Voice

Hena Khan, 2021

Wild Awake

Hilary T. Smith, 2013

Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family

Kimberly Willis Holt, Kate Reading, 2006

Analee, In Real Life

Janelle Milanes, 2018

Tricks

Ellen Hopkins, 2009

And Then Things Fall Apart

Arlaina Tibensky, 2011