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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Do you like young adult books? Do you like to talk? Want to talk about young adult books? Let’s do it!<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">The 2022 Mock Printz, hosted by the Oregon Young Adult Network, is free and open to teens and adults who work with teens.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">What do we do? We find and read 8 outstanding books from 2021 and then spend an afternoon in an intensive discussion of those books. Then we vote which is most likely to be a contender for the 2022
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<li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The City Beautiful</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Aden Polydoros<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>- A haunting, Jewish, queer historical fantasy where dreams meet nightmares in 1893 Chicago<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All Our Hidden Gifts</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Caroline O’Donoghue – A Irish schoolgirl delving into a talent for tarot reading is pulled through the edges of reality<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> adapted by Hilary Beard from the book by Tim Madigan – Absorbs the reader in the moment and impact of one
of the worst acts of racial violence in America’s history<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">When We Make It</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Elisabet Velasquez – A searing novel in verse lays bare the joys and pain of a first-generation Puerto Rican growing up in Bushwick<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Incredible Doom</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden – Return to the 90s in a graphic novel connecting three teens on the fringe through newfangled Internet technology<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Firekeeper’s Daughter</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Angeline Boulley – Daunis Fontaine goes undercover for the FBI, seeking answers about a murder and her place in her Ojibwe community<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Last Night at the Telegraph Club</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Malinda Lo – A tender, risky first love blooms between Lily and Kath in San Francisco’s 1954 Chinatown<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In the Wild Light</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> by Jeff Zentner – Deep roots in Appalachia pull at Cash even as he escapes to a new prep-school life in Connecticut and comes into his own as a poet<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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