• Dumplin' - 16-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs. 

• To be Honest - After Savannah's sister goes off to college, her mom is constantly pressuring Savvy to be mindful of what she eats. Savvy's mother's obsession with weight has only grown deeper since her own appearance on an extreme weight-loss show. Then Savvy meets George, who has insecurities of his own.

• Girls like Me - 15-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail. 

• The Upside of Unrequited - No matter how many times Molly's twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie's orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly's cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Cassie's new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. But then there's Molly's coworker, Reid. He's a chubby Tolkien superfan, and there's absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. 

• The Summer of Jordi Perez - 17, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby is happy to focus on her plus-size style blog and her dreams of taking the fashion industry by storm. When she lands an internship at her favorite boutique, she falls for her fellow intern, Jordi Perez. And now she's competing against the girl she's kissing to win the coveted paid job at the end of the internship. 

• Big Fat Manifesto - Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.

• Leah on the Off Beat -  Leah Burke's mom knows she’s bisexual, but she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended 

• Mammoth - The summer before her junior year, paleontology geek Natalie Page lands a coveted internship at an Ice Age dig site near Austin. Natalie, who’s also a plus-size fashion blogger, depends on the retro style she developed to shield herself from her former bullies, but vintage dresses and perfect lipstick aren’t compatible with prospecting for fossils in the Texas heat.

• Fat Angie - Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything? 

• 45 pounds - When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that matters

• Fat Girl on a Plane - Thanks to her job at a fashion blog, Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her portfolio and appeal for a scholarship but her plans are put on standby when she's declared too fat to fly. She eventually arrives in the city to find that she's been replaced by the boss's daughter, a girl who's everything she's not. Bowing to society's pressure, she vows to lose weight.

• Eleanor and Park -Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try 

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• Black Wings Beating - In Uztar, birds are revered and no one is more respected than the falconers who command them. Twins Brysen and Kylee are divided by the sport—Brysen who wants to become a falconer and Kylee longs to be free of falconry for good. But a war is brewing and no one is safe. A dangerous trek into the mountains to capture the Ghost Eagle, the most powerful of all Uztar birds, may be the only solution.

• Legacy of Kings - Katerina, on a mission to kill the queen, falls in love with Alexander, Prince of Macedonia. Jacob will go to unthinkable lengths to win Katerina, even if it means having to compete with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the prince. And far across the sea, Zofia, a Persian princess and Alexander's unmet betrothed, wants to alter her destiny by seeking the famed and deadly Spirit Eaters. 

• Prophesy - A demon slayer, the only female warrior in the King's army, must battle demon soldiers, an evil shaman, and the Demon Lord to find the lost ruby of the Dragon King's prophecy and save her kingdom 

• Air Awakens - The Solaris Empire is one conquest away from uniting the continent, and the rare elemental magic sleeping in 17-year-old library apprentice Vhalla Yarl could shift the tides of war. After she unknowingly saves the life of one of the most powerful sorcerers of them all—the Crown Prince Aldrik—she finds herself enticed into his world. Now she must decide her future: Embrace her sorcery and leave the life she’s known, or eradicate her magic and remain as she’s always been.

• Damsel - When the prince comes of age, he must slay a dragon and rescue a damsel to be his bride. When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, however, she has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon, or what horrors she has faced in its lair. She knows only the tales of the handsome prince. Ama returns with Emory back to the kingdom, hailed as the new princess. All is not as it seems. There are more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels.

• A Shadow Bright and Burning - When her unusual powers mark her as the one destined to lead the war against the seven Ancients, Henrietta trains to become the first female sorcerer in centuries--though the true nature of her ability threatens to be revealed.

• Ink and Bone - Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly, but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden ... When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than any human life--and soon both heretics and books will burn.

• Poison Study - Yelena, about to be executed, is offered the job of food taster to the Commander of Ixia, but politics and magic keep threatening her life. 

• The Forest Queen - When 16-year-old Sylvie’s brother takes over management of their family’s vast estates, Sylvie feels powerless to stop his abuse of the local commoners. Her dearest friend asks her to run away to the woods with him, and soon a host of other villagers join them. Together, they form their own community and fight to right the wrongs perpetrated by the king and his noblemen 

• Rule - The king is dying, his heir has just been murdered, and rebellion brews in the east. But the kingdom of Kolonya and the outer Reaches has one last option before it descends into leaderless chaos. When the king summons 3 girls, they arrive expecting arrest or even execution. Instead they learn the truth: they are his illegitimate daughters, and one must become his new heir.

• The Brilliant Death - Teodora secretly turns her family’s enemies into  decorative objects. She is a stregas—a wielders of magic— a figure out of a fairytale. When Teo’s beloved father is poisoned by the land's ruler, she must travel to the capital transformed as a his son, to save him. Enter Cielo, a strega who can switch back and forth between male and female as effortlessly as turning a page in a book. Teo and Cielo journey together to the capital, and Teo struggles to master her powers and to keep her growing feelings for Cielo locked in her heart.

• Four Dead Queens -  Keralie Corrington steals under the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can’t get in their own quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Four queens rule together, one from each region. When Keralie intercepts a comm disk, she witnesses all four queens murdered in four brutal ways. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit –  Keralie teams up with Varin Bollt, the messenger she stole from, to complete Varin’s original job and see where it takes them.  

9-14-18

• Slam! - In the fast-paced, hard-hitting, super cheeky, all-female world of banked track roller derby, two young women will have to decide if their budding friendship is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line 

• The Prince and the Dressmaker - Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride--or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia--the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! 

• Paper Girls - In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and supernatural mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood 

• Giant Days - Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. 

• Aya - Aya tells the story of its 19-year-old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see-spirited, hopeful, and resilient 

• Skim - Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression 

• The Agony House - Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, to fix up a rundown house and convert it to a bed and breakfast. The unexplained noises are out of the ordinary. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and she hears creepy voices, it's clear to Denise that something more sinister lurks hidden here.

• Spera - When Princess Pira's mother attacks a neighboring kingdom, Pira rescues the princess Lono to escape, with the help of their fire spirit friend Yonder, to the safety of the magical realm of Spera. 

• Delilah Dirk - Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside.

• Ghost World - This quasi-autobiographical story follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.  

• Princess Princess Ever After - When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neither expects to find a true friend in the bargain. Yet as they adventure across the kingdom, they discover that they bring out the very best in the other person. They'll need to join forces and use all the know-how, kindness, and bravery they have in order to defeat their greatest foe yet: a jealous sorceress with a dire grudge against Sadie.  

• Space Boy - Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy.

• The Year of the Beasts - This year Tessa and her younger sister, Lulu, are unchaperoned a the carnival and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food and the boys. Except this summer, jealousy will invade their relationship for the first time, setting in motion a course of events that can only end in tragedy, putting everyone's love and friendship to the test. 

• Part-time Princesses - Working as costumed princesses at the local amusement park is a nice gig, but it’s not what Courtney, Amber, Tiffany, and Michelle want to do with their lives. These queens of high school have their own plans for life post-graduation, and they do not involve fixed games and fried pickles. 

• Strong Female Protagonist - With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of the most powerful superheroes around. Fighting crime with other teenagers under the alter ego Mega Girl was fun until an encounter with Menace, her mind reading arch enemy. He showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy, and suddenly battling giant robots didn't seem so important. Now Alison is going to college and trying to find ways to help the world while still getting to class on time. It's impossible to escape the past, however, and everyone has their own idea of what it means to be a hero 

• Speak: The Graphic Novel - Melinda is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.  

9-14-18

• Au Revoir Crazy European Chick - Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan. 

• It's not Me, It's You - High school senior Avery Dennis runs the prom committee, but when a public breakup with her current boyfriend leaves her without a date, she starts to wonder about her dating history. Avery sets out to investigate why her relationships never seem to work out.

• Beauty Queens - When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. 

• The rest of us just live here - What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. 

• My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen - Chris Bellows is trying to survive being the only stepchild in the social-climbing Fontaine family, feeling more like a maid than part of the family. But when Chris’s stepsister begins dating golden boy J. J. Kennerly, heir to a political dynasty, Chris and J. J. fall in love . . . with each other. With the help of a new friend, Coco Chanel Jones, Chris learns to be comfortable in his own skin. All it takes is one fairy godmother dressed as Diana Ross to change the course of his life. 

• The Haters - For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. But then they jam with Ash, a charismatic girl with an unusual sound, and the three just click. Ash makes a decision: They need to hit the road. Because the road, not summer camp, is where bands get good. Before Wes and Corey know it, they’re in Ash’s SUV heading south, and The Haters Summer of Hate Tour has begun.

• Save the Date - Charlie Grant's older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster - all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect. But the weekend is shaping up to be a disaster. 

• Noah Can't Even - Noah's dad disappeared years ago, his mother's Beyonce tribute act is an unacceptable embarrassment, and his beloved gran isn't herself anymore. He only has one friend, Harry, and school is pure HELL. Maybe if he struck up a romantic relationship with someone - maybe Sophie, who is perfect and lovely - he'd be seen in a different light? But Noah's plans for romance are derailed when Harry kisses him at a party. That's when things go from bad to worse utter chaos. 

• I believe in a thing called Love - A disaster in romance, high school senior Desi Lee decides to tackle her flirting failures by watching Korean television dramas, where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten. It's a simple formula, and Desi is a quick study. She goes after moody artist Luca Drakos-- utilizing boat rescues, love triangles, and staged car crashes. 

• Waste of Space - Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama--and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. 

• Kill the Boy Band - Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse. 

• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe - Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God. 

• How you Ruined my Life - Rod's life is going well until his rich, prankster cousin, Blake, moves in for three months--moving into his room and moving in on his girlfriend and band--ruining everything. 

• Boys Don't Knit - After a brush with the law, Ben, a dyed-in-the-wool worrier, must take up a new hobby and chooses knitting, an activity at which he excels but must try to keep secret from his friends, enemies, and sports-obsessed father. 

• The Boomerang Effect - Because of his string of pranks, Lawrence Barry is one step away from reform school unless he agrees to mentor Spencer Knudsen, a Norwegian exchange student with Spock-like intelligence but no social skills. During Homecoming week, someone dressed as the school's Viking mascot starts destroying the homecoming floats, and Lawrence becomes suspect #1. As the situation spirals out of control, he realizes that Spencer may be his best friend.

• Spanking Shakespeare - Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend. 

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• And She Was - When Dara digs up her birth certificate, two strangers listed as her parents. Dara learns her mother is transgender. She transitioned when Dara was a baby, shortly after Dara’s birth mother died. Reeling, she sets off on a road trip with her best guy friend, Sam. She's determined to find the extended family she’s never met.

• Let's Talk About Love - Alice's girlfriend ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual.  Alice is done with dating. Then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn, Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library employee badge. Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated—or understood. 

• I Was Born for This - Angel Rahimi is obsessed with the The Ark - a pop-rock trio of teenage boys. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves - her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman. But dreams don't always turn out the way you think, and when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be. 

• Last Seen Leaving - Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking question he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. As January's boyfriend, Flynn must know something. But Flynn has a secret of his own. He's gay. And as he struggles to uncover the truth about January's disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself. 

• The Up Side of Unrequited - No matter how many times Molly's twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie's orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly's cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Cassie's new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. But then there's Molly's coworker, Reid. He's a chubby Tolkien superfan, and there's absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. 

• Two Boys Kissing - Craig and Harry are hoping to set the world record for the longest kiss. They're not a couple, but they used to be. Peter and Neil are a couple. Their kisses are different. Avery and Ryan have only just met and are trying to figure out what happens next. Cooper is alone. He's not sure how he feels. As the marathon progresses, these boys, their friends and families evaluate the changing nature of feelings, behavior, and this crazy thing called love.

• It's not like it's a Secret - When 16-year-old Sana Kiyohara and her family move to California, she meets Jamie Ramirez. She is beautiful and smart and unlike anyone Sana's ever known. There are just a few problems: Sana's new friends don't trust Jamie's crowd; Jamie's friends clearly don't want her around anyway; and a sweet guy named Caleb seems to have more-than-friendly feelings for her.

• They both Die at the End - On September 5th, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that., It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day.  

• What if it's Us - ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer. BEN is his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend's things.But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them?

• If You Could Be Mine - Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love. Sahar and Nasrin carry on in secret - until Nasrin's parents announce that they've arranged for her marriage. But to be a man trapped in a woman's body is seen as nature's mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin.

• More Happy Than Not - In the months after his father's suicide, 16-year-old Aaron Soto finds happiness with his girlfriend Genevieve. When Genevieve leaves for a couple of weeks, Aaron starts hanging out with Thomas. Since Aaron can't stay away from Thomas or turn off his newfound feelings for him, he considers turning to the Leteo Institute's revolutionary memory-alteration procedure to straighten himself out, even if it means forgetting who he truly is...  

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post - When Cameron Post's parents die in a car crash, she's relieved she'll never have to tell them that she kissed a girl. Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth. Her secret is eventually exposed. Aunt Ruth takes drastic measures to "fix" her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self.  

• Tessa Masterson will go to Prom - Lucas finally realizes his feelings for Tessa are more than friendship and asks her to prom. Tessa comes out as a lesbian instead of accepting. What's worse is Tessa's decision to wear a tastefully tailored tuxedo to escort her female crush, sparking a firestorm of controversy. Lucas must decide if he should stand by his friend to make sure that Tessa Masterson will go to prom. 

• True Letters from a Fictional Life - James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world—letters he never intends to send—he spills the truth: He just isn’t into Theresa. It’s a boy who lingers in his thoughts. He feels trapped by his parents, his teammates, and the lies they’ve helped him tell, and he has no idea how to escape.

• If I was your Girl - Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. But Amanda is keeping a secret. She meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can't help but start to let him into her life. But Amanda's terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it. At her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love? 

• Highly Illogical Behavior - 16-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn’t left the house in 3 years. Ambitious Lisa wants to get into a psychology program for college. Determined to “fix” Sol, Lisa steps into his world, along with her charming boyfriend, Clark. Soon the three form an unexpected bond. But, as Lisa learns more about Sol and he and Clark grow closer and closer, the walls they’ve built around themselves start to collapse and their friendships threaten to do the same. 

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