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Blackout

Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

Ages: 14+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-308809-2

Keywords: romance, New York City, gender identity, teenagers, love

A blackout in sweltering NYC occasions changing relationships for six Black teens navigating in the darkness: love found, confessed, renewed, reexamined, or altered.