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YA 811 NYE 2002
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[2002] | Greenwillow Books | xviii, 142 pages ; 19 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA 811 NYE 2002 |
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Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States. "Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..." Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party...
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YA DEL
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2018. | First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | Simon Pulse | 372 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA DEL |
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High school senior Nic, seventeen, tries to salvage her tattered reputation by helping her Ivy League-obsessed classmates with college admission essays and finds herself in the process.
3) African Town
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YA LAT
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2022. | G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 438 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA LAT |
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
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2010. | First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | Simon Pulse | 382 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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In alternating chapters, two high school senior girls in Atlanta reveal their thoughts and frustrations as they go through their final semester of high school.
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[2022] | First edition. | Atheneum | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm | English |
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2022 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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2022 | OverDrive | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | English | Available Online
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2022 | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | English | Available Online
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"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
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[2021] | First edition. | Make Me a World | 324 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her childhood seems to be over. Among this world of confusing beginnings,...
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YA 809 FLE 2020
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2020. | First edition. | Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press | 1 volume : color illustrations ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA 809 FLE 2020 |
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Profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language, from a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works to people who studied word origins and variations.
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
F PARK, I
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[2021] | One World | 175 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F PARK, I |
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"Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera... Committed to cultural details and the vernacular of Queens and Brooklyn, this is a hip-hop love story, not of the Capulets and the Montagues, but two New York City kids trying to survive and grow within their...
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YA 928.1 GANSWOR, E 2020
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2020. | Levine Querido | 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA 928.1 GANSWOR, E 2020 |
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The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
10) Audacity
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YA CRO
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[2015] | Philomel Books | 389 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA CRO |
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"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
11) Audition
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2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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2011 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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When high school junior Sara wins a coveted scholarship to study ballet, she must sacrifice everything for her new life as a professional dancer-in-training. Living in a strange city with a host family, she's deeply lonely-until she falls into the arms of Remington, a choreographer in his early twenties. At first, she loves being Rem's muse, but as she discovers a surprising passion for writing, she begins to question whether she's chosen the right...
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YA CHA
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[2009] | Viking | 352 pages ; 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA CHA |
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The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
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YA ATT
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2020. | First US edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 403 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA ATT |
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2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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2020 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
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YA MCC
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[2018] | Dutton Books | 289 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA MCC |
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
15) Bruiser
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2010. | First edition. | HarperTeen | 328 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2010 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2010 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
16) Bull: a novel
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YA ELL
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[2017] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 189 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available YA ELL |
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Much like Lin-Manuel Miranda did in Hamilton, the New York Times best-selling author David Elliott turns a classic on its head in form and approach, updating the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur for a new generation. A rough, rowdy, and darkly comedic young adult retelling in verse, Bull will have readers reevaluating one of mythology's most infamous monsters.
17) Chlorine sky
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[2021] | First edition. | Crown | 178 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
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[2020] | Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 417 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Quill Tree Books | English | Checked Out
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2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2020 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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SMP-YA ACE
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 5 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Young Adult Collections (1st floor) 1 available SMP-YA ACE |
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
19) Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1
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2010. | First Margaret K. McElderry Books hardcover edition. | Margaret K. McElderry Books | 537 pages ; 19 cm | English |
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Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into addiction.
20) The crossover
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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2014. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 237 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2019 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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SMP-J ALE
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[2014], ℗2014 | Unabridged. | [Distributed exclusively by] Recorded Books, LLC | 1 sound media player (2.25 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available SMP-J ALE |
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.