Secondary Literature Circle

A Girl Like That Literature Circle Title

Bhathena, Tanaz


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.

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All American Boys Literature Circle Title

Reynolds, Jason.


Rashad and Quinn—one black, one white, both American—face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn’t die after the civil rights movement. There’s a future at stake, a future where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything to change the world. This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.
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Rashad and Quinn—one black, one white, both American—face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn’t die after the civil rights movement. There’s a future at stake, a future where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything to change the world. This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.

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The Black Kids Literature Circle Title

Hammonds Reed, Christina


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble. .
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Brother Literature Circle Title

Chariandy, David


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Trinidadian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. . With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Trinidadian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. . With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun.

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Bruised Literature Circle Title

Boteju, Tanya


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC and LGBTQ+ choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Daya Wijesinghe sees a bruise as a mixture of comfort and control, but joining a roller derby team push her toward big truths about love, loss, strength, and healing.
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Dear Martin Literature Circle Title

Stone, Nic


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Felix Ever After Literature Circle Title

Callender, Kacen


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC and LGBTQ+ choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend. .
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Literature Circle Title

Philippe, Ben


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie." .
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Gutter Child Literature Circle Title

Richardson, Jael


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government. But when her Mainland mother dies, Elimina finds herself all alone, a teenager forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. Elimina is sent to an academy with new rules and expectations where she befriends Gutter children who are making their own way through the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how. When Elimina’s life takes another unexpected turn, she will discover that what she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she longs for after all. Richardson’s Gutter Child reveals one young woman’s journey through a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking injustices. Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality who must find the strength within herself to forge her future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government. But when her Mainland mother dies, Elimina finds herself all alone, a teenager forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. Elimina is sent to an academy with new rules and expectations where she befriends Gutter children who are making their own way through the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how. When Elimina’s life takes another unexpected turn, she will discover that what she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she longs for after all. Richardson’s Gutter Child reveals one young woman’s journey through a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking injustices. Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality who must find the strength within herself to forge her future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny.

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The Hate U Give Literature Circle Title

Thomas, Angie


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her .
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her .

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Long Way Down Literature Circle Title

Reynolds, Jason


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Driven by the secrets and vengeance that mark his street culture, 15-year-old Will contemplates over the course of 60 psychologically suspenseful seconds whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother.
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Made in Korea Literature Circle Title

Suk, Sarah


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Running a successful beauty-care sales business at school, Korean-American teen Valerie clashes with newcomer Wes, who is selling a competitor’s K-pop products to raise funds for his musical ambitions. .
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The Magic Fish Literature Circle Title

Trung, Le Nguyen


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - American author) and LGBTQ+ choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Ti'n loves his family and his friendsàbut Ti'n has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it might change everything. An amazing YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together.
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A Magic Steeped in Poison Literature Circle Title

Lin, Judy I


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian-Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. . Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined. Includes glossary.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian-Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. . Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined. Includes glossary.

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More Than Just A Pretty Face Literature Circle Title

Masood, Syed


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - American author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. . When self-proclaimed 'not very bright' Danyal Jilani is chosen for a prestigious academic contest, he hopes to impress a potential arranged marriage match, only to begin falling for the girl helping him study instead.
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Patron Saints of Nothing Literature Circle Title

Ribay, Randy


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - American author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Setting aside his college ambitions when he learns that his cousin has been murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, a high school senior travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth, and the part he may have played in it.
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The Poet X Literature Circle Title

Acevedo, Elizabeth


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
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The Red Palace Literature Circle Title

Hur, June


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - Canadian author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. While investigating a series of grisly murders, eighteen-year-old palace nurse Hyeon navigates royal and political intrigue and becomes entangled with a young police inspector. Includes author's note.
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Saints and Misfits Literature Circle Title

Ali, S.K.


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - Canadian author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Struggling to secure her identity as an Arab Indian-American hijabi teen who loves pop culture and aspires to a career in photography, Janna Yusuf falls for a boy she cannot date and considers exposing a person with a monstrous nature who is pretending to be a saint in their tight-knit Muslim community.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - Canadian author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Struggling to secure her identity as an Arab Indian-American hijabi teen who loves pop culture and aspires to a career in photography, Janna Yusuf falls for a boy she cannot date and considers exposing a person with a monstrous nature who is pretending to be a saint in their tight-knit Muslim community.

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Shadow Life Literature Circle Title

Goto, Hiromi


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow.

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Skyhunter Literature Circle Title

Lu, Marie


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - American author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. In Skyhunter, a novel laced with adrenaline and filled with nonstop action, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu creates an immersive world broken by war where the only hope against overwhelming evil lies with a team of young warriors willing to sacrifice everything to save what they love.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - American author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. In Skyhunter, a novel laced with adrenaline and filled with nonstop action, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu creates an immersive world broken by war where the only hope against overwhelming evil lies with a team of young warriors willing to sacrifice everything to save what they love.

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Slay Literature Circle Title

Morris, Brittney


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide. .
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Super Fake Love Song Literature Circle Title

Yoon, David


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - American author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. When new-girl Cirrus mistakes self-described nerd Sunny Dae as the lead in a rock band, Sunny rolls with it forming a fake band with his friends, but as the lies continue he risks losing both Cirrus and his friends.
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Surviving the City Literature Circle Title

Spillett, Tasha


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. A contemporary graphic novel about Indigenous young women facing heart-wrenching decisions and the anguish of missing loved ones. Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut tells a story of kinship, resilience, cultural resurgence, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up Indigenous in an urban landscape—they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't?
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. A contemporary graphic novel about Indigenous young women facing heart-wrenching decisions and the anguish of missing loved ones. Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut tells a story of kinship, resilience, cultural resurgence, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up Indigenous in an urban landscape—they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't?

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We Are Not Free Literature Circle Title

Chee, Traci


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - American author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice (Asian - American author) and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

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Wicked Fox Literature Circle Title

Cho, Kat


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - American author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his. Includes glossary.
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With the Fire on High Literature Circle Title

Acevedo, Elizabeth


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. Even though it seems like an impossible dream to be a chef after she graduates, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free. .
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This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. Even though it seems like an impossible dream to be a chef after she graduates, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free. .

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Wrong Side of the Court Literature Circle Title

Khan, H. N.


This set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC (Asian - Canadian author) choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Dreaming of being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully.
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You Should See Me in a Crown Literature Circle Title

Johnson, Leah


his set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships. .
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his set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships. .

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