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Fake News by Tom Jackson and Christina Guitian

 More information has been gathered about you, me, the world, and the universe in the last ten years than the previous 10,000 years. p59

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

 I think it would be a terrible sacrifice to do nothing. p258

Counting by Sevens by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Description Dell Duke is not a bad person. He is just bad at being  a person. p289

Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore

 LOL Those two are hiding their sex tea from me. p122 Description/ Emotion Wryly noting that glaciers break off and icebergs dissolve, but my jealousy never seems to change form. p549 Love is hope for other people. p591

She Did It by Emily Arnold McCully

 "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life." Jane Addams in a 1892 speech p29 Grace Hopper was on The Late Show with David Letterman!  Can I find this episode? Gertrude [Berg] said, "these surface differences serve to emphasize how much alike most people are underneath." p141

Vox by Christina Dalcher

 I've often wondered about that, about how kids can turn into monsters, how they learn that killing is right and oppression is just, how in one single generation the world can change on its axis into a place that's unrecognizable. p102

You Know I'm No Good by Jessie Ann Foley

 "Who gives a shit about this 'value add' stuff? Don't you know that negative numbers have value, too? Algebra stretches in both directions. So does life." p165