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Hi! My name is Ari and I’m a teen services librarian, book blogger, and bookstagrammer.  I’m queer & biracial (Filipino-American and Jewish) and love helping people find their perfect read--both at my library and online. YA literature and teen library services are my passions, but I also love middle grade fiction, graphic novels, and romance!

Celebrating Jewish Asian Experiences VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)
Matzo Ball-Wonton Thanksgiving
A Persian Princess
Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup
Love in the Library
How to Find What You're Not Looking for
The Whole Story of Half a Girl
The Night Diary
Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen
This Is Just a Test
Not Your All-American Girl
Ana on the Edge
Jasmine Skies
Alma Presses Play
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
Squad

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Books with Filipino & Filipino-American Rep! VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)
Patron Saints of Nothing
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Simmer Down
Faker
My Heart Underwater
Any Day with You
The House That Lou Built
Everlasting Nora
My Fate According to the Butterfly
Lalani of the Distant Sea
The Land of Forgotten Girls
Blackbird Fly
Hello, Universe
Turtle Under Ice
#OwnVoices Jewish books! VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Sick Kids in Love
Not Your All-American Girl
Recommended for You
A Place at the Table
Color Me in
The Ex Talk
Cool for the Summer
Today Tonight Tomorrow
What I Like about You
Yes No Maybe So
Color Outside the Lines: Stories about Love
In the Neighborhood of True
It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
Our Year of Maybe
Our Year of Maybe

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My 2021 Favorites VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
The Ones We're Meant to Find
We Can't Keep Meeting Like This
Meet Cute Diary
This Poison Heart
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
The Infinity Courts: Volume 1
The Cost of Knowing
The Mirror Season
Cool for the Summer
My 2020 Favorites VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)
The Voting Booth
I'll Be the One
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Today Tonight Tomorrow
You Should See Me in a Crown
The Henna Wars
Felix Ever After
The Only Black Girls in Town
Clap When You Land
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
What I Like about You
Harley in the Sky
Only Mostly Devastated
Of Curses and Kisses
Yes No Maybe So

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Diverse Picture Books VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)
How Mamas Love Their Babies
When Aidan Became a Brother
Dreamers
Islandborn
I Am Enough
Hair Love
Sulwe
I Am Perfectly Designed
Black Is a Rainbow Color
The Day You Begin
Under My Hijab
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
Mae Among the Stars
A is for Activist
My Hair Is a Garden

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Romances You Need to Read VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)
The Wedding Date
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Spoiler Alert
Make Up Break Up
Written in the Stars
Simmer Down
Faker
The Ex Talk
Hate to Want You
You Had Me at Hola
Something to Talk about
Undercover Bromance
The Worst Best Man
The Bromance Book Club
Get a Life, Chloe Brown

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Middle Grade Novels I Adore VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)
Any Day with You
The House That Lou Built
Everlasting Nora
Not Your All-American Girl
We Dream of Space
Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Rick
The Only Black Girls in Town
Black Brother, Black Brother
In the Role of Brie Hutchens...
Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
The First Rule of Punk
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Dear Sweet Pea

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Middle Grade Books in Verse VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
Other Words for Home
Samira Surfs
The Moon Within
We Belong
Starfish
Land of the Cranes
Red, White, and Whole
Alma Presses Play
Unsettled