Information about the 22-23 Gateway Nominees

Gateway Books 2022-2023

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Arvin Ahmadi reads from HOW IT ALL BLEW UP | Book Your Summer Live

Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an enounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk. 

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THIS IS MY AMERICA by Kim Johnson | Official Book Trailer

While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

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The Story Behind Punching the Air | with Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Learn about the story behind Punching the Air.

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the the Exonerated Five comes a powerful novel in verse about a boy who is wrongly incarcerated.

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CLAP WHEN YOU LAND by Elizabeth Acevedo | Official Book Trailer

Sixteen-year-old Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.

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The unlikely romance between an overachiever from a successful family and the class clown, who exchange snarky tweets that escalate into a viral Twitter war.

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Interview with Laurie Faria Stolarz

In chapters alternating between "then" and "now", seventeen-year-old Jane Anonymous chronicles the events leading up to her abduction and seven-month captivity and her painful return to family and friends. 

He Knew Better | Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

When legendary R &amp; B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blook on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields?

In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system.

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Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis

Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.

ADRIENNE YOUNG INTRODUCES FABLE!

Seventeen-year-old Fable joins the young motley crew of the Marigolf to escape the island where her father abandoned her, but she quickly realizes life off the island is more dangerous than she imagined.

In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.

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In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty -  one strike at at time.

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Official Book Trailer for GIRL ON THE RUN by Abigail Johnson | YA Thriller

Sixteen-year-old Katelyn, who has been subjected to her mother's 'wanderlust' all her life, discovers that Mom might not be who she says she is, and that someone is hunting them both.

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and and eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

In 1935, young Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his reluctance, their letters continue over the the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.

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