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Beautiful Books: Challenger Deep

From the back cover: Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the...

Beautiful Books: The Complete Persepolis

The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi From the inner flap: Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of...

Beautiful Books: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

From the back cover: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an...

Beautiful Books: All American Boys

From the back cover: A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a...

Beautiful Books: M or F?

M or F? by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts From the back cover: When Frannie is desperate to get the attention of her crush, her...

Beautiful Books: Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian

His hometown becomes a “secondary migration” location for Somali refugees fleeing their war-ravaged homeland, refugees Tom hasn’t thought...

Beautiful Books: A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman

Full disclosure: I attended a panel discussion with Padma Venkatraman at a writers’ conference, and later a workshop she offered on...

Beautiful Books: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

I like to read while I’m on the treadmill and I started Everything, Everything while I was on the treadmill. But two pages in, I almost...