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Nice Guys by qxeenrobin
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In a high school where popularity is cutthroat, two best friends - an inquisitive brainiac and a clumsy wannabe actor - team up with the school's most notorious troublemaker in the hopes of climbing up the social hierarchy to impress their popular crushes. ---------- - featured on the StoriesUndiscovered "Teenage Dreams" reading list - featured on the official TeenFiction profile "Funny Bones" reading list - 2020 Editors' Picks List - featured on Wattpad's #CelebrateBlackWriters reading list
The Artist and The Dancer by nikki20038
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Hamilton Academy of the Arts. The school Sydney Acosta moved to all the way from Toronto, Ontario in a barely known city. After the divorce between her mother and father, she's stuck by her mother's side, following her to another city in Canada. Her emotions are expressed through the one thing she loves doing: dancing. Lucas Cahill is a quiet, almost outcast in the school. His twin brother, Joseph, better known as Joey, is the best known guy in school. He's considered popular, cooler and better looking than his brother despite the two having the same face. At school, Joey doesn't acknowledge his brother, at home and in the past they are inseparable with the excuses from Joey tolling up over time. His isolation and other emotions are expressed through his art. The two seventeen year olds are connected in their different forms of art in a teenage story filled with drama, sarcasm and loads of creativity. "My drawings are like stick figures compared to anything you draw. You could draw the world's ugliest frog and it will still turn out beautiful. Lucas you're an amazing artist." "So are you." He said quietly, looking up at me with his soft, heartwarming eyes. "How?"I couldn't draw for shit. "Because you are a dancer. Dancing is an art. And you are an amazing dancer." Cover~ xThePineappleGirlx #15 Teen Fiction (11/12/16)
Bolt by JaxonBlacc
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Trey has spent the last ten years drowning in drugs because he is too afraid to deal with real-life situations. He avoids confrontations whenever he can and keeps to himself, not wanting to form any kind of relationship with anyone. When the death of the most beloved peculiar shocks the entire city, Trey finds himself drawn back into the world of heroes and villains. To make matters worse, a dome appears out of nowhere and traps the people of Tombstone. With nowhere to run or hide, Trey is forced to face his demons and find out who is responsible for the dome. But his search leads him down a dark past where he has to come to terms with who he is and who he once was if he wants to get the answers he needs and save Tombstone from the evil consuming it. TRIGGER WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence and mature subject matter that may be distressing to some readers.
Black Girl Shine #Wattys2017 by aissatoutb
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A collection of 10 poems to uplift the melanin soul. *Highest rank: #20 in Short Poems.
Where There's Light | ✔ by keahlovee
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Jade Harris needs money for college. Nolan Chambers needs a ticket out of Bellcreek. The unlikely pair come together to fool their classmates into thinking they're a love sick couple to obtain the grand prize for prom king and queen-a college scholarship and a trip to Europe. It'd be easy if everyone didn't think Jade cheated on her ex. It'd be even easier if Nolan wasn't an unbearable grump. Regardless of the odds being against them they don't give up, desperate to win the prize. Or maybe there's something else keeping them from throwing in the towel... TW: Death of a parent, slut shaming
Shades Darker | BWWM by emani_jasmine
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After a brutal act of police brutality, the most important figure in Kendra Lyon's life is ripped away from her. Consumed by grief Kendra has channeled all of her anger towards her peers not trusting those who don't look like her. She's built up a strong wall of emotions against them in order to protect herself that no one can seem to tear down. That is until she meets the one boy who could possibly see her beyond her rage. He's willing to endure her smart remarks and sassy attitude just to catch a glimpse of the real Kendra Lyon. Kendra vows to never fall for him because after all he's just another white boy and to her, that's an insult to her father's memory.
This Book Belongs To Melody (GxG)  by OnyxOndine
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!!!NOT FULL VERSION!!! Life rarely goes the way you'd expect. Death however, never does. Melody Adler; daughter, mother, widow. She was a woman of many words, and even more talents, a kind soul who strived for the very best at every turn. She longed to one day move her mother and daughter out of her rundown apartment, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Unfortunately, none of that matters. Because she's dead. Melody woke up in the middle of an empty field, left with nothing but her new diary, her memories, a whole lot of questions and no one to ask them to. At first she couldn't tell if she was in hell or heaven. Then she met Her. And it all went down hill from there. ___________________________________________ This is my second draft of this book and I am currently in the process of self publishing it! So fair warning to any new or current readers, I'm leaving the full version on here for a while, but I am going to be taking most of it down soon, most likely mid to late July!!!! So get it while it's hot!! Hot meaning free! Please feel free to correct any grammar mistakes, or give general advice on writing, promoting, or on how to write a better description. Thanks for reading!
The Tides That Bind Us [AfroFuturism] by IntoTheTempest
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The year is 2163, and the 700 Isles drift along seas blackened with secrets and scandals and the souls of men too wicked for damnation. A Nation bound by science and pride. A Nation that rose above. Denden is the only reality Zaharah has known since an accident left her and her sister orphaned. With graduation and her art degree within reach, she dreams of making a better life for her family. But when her primary caretaker is killed, her reality is turned on its head, and the people she once called family hunt for her head. She will have to choose between sacrificing herself for a better life for her sister, or challenging powers that be and being forced into a life of running and hiding.
The ORION Project  | ✔ by TheOdoziaku
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FEATURED IN AMBASSADORSNG' MYSTERY READING LIST WATTPAD HQ FEATURED (JUNE 2020) Grace Ilori is a stressed out final year diploma student in the prestigious Lagos state university. Saddled with final year exams, projects, decisions concerning her future and barely passing a vital course. To top it all, her parents are getting a divorce, her brother is a relapsing drug addict and her sister a kleptomaniac. School is not as easy as it sounds, especially when a secret organization that masquerades as a book club is hell bent on recruiting her. An organization that controls the inner circle of the university's government and all its dark secrets. Kendrick Yong is hell bent on getting revenge and finding his best friend's killer. He walks around the campus with a death wish. He is determined to join the same organization that murdered his best friend. While he solves the clue of the murder that haunts him, he finds himself with the malevolent threat of death hanging over his head. Both new recruits of ORION, Grace and Kendrick find their paths intwined with one goal in mind; destroy ORION and everything it stands for.
Women Of Steel | ✔ by TheOdoziaku
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Women Of Steel is a tale of two women from two different cultures, told in two different parts. It tells the story of two women seeking for a place bigger than society deems it possible for a woman. One wants revenge, a broken woman tired of swaying to the tune of fate and the gods, her tyrant husband and king stands in the path of her revenge. The other wants to discover who she is, ignoring the whispers of who she is supposed to be. She discovers an ancient secret about her ancestors. FEATURED ON STORIES UNDISCOVERED' SAPPHIRE READING LIST. FEATURED ON WATTPAD CHRONICLES' MONTHLY SPOTLIGHT READING LIST.