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1) Monster
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Series
Language
English
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
2) All my rage
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
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Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...
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English
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Back to School, More Titles - Young Adult
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Young Adults Titles
Mental Health Awareness - More Titles or Young Adults
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Young Adults Titles
Mental Health Awareness - More Titles or Young Adults
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After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
4) Ship breaker
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Series
Ship breaker volume 1
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English
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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5th Grade Rocks
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
9) Going bovine
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Language
English
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
10) Dig
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Only a generation removed from being simple Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account, wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grandchildren. Now the five teenagers are lost in a tangled maze of family secrets. One of the teens sells pot; one has cancer; all are estranged from the family. As they...
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Language
English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Young Adults Titles
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Young Adults Titles
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never...
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Sugar Island volume 1
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English
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"Isabella Star LaBlanc brings an authentic-sounding narration to this powerful audiobook...Dialogue, including words in other languages, is handled with effortless transitions and clear depictions between characters. This audiobook should not be missed." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
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14) Brownstone
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2025 - Young Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Maverick Graphic Novels 2025 (Gr. 6-12)
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Maverick Graphic Novels 2025 (Gr. 6-12)
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"In the summer of 1995, almost-fifteen-year-old Almudena is sent to live with her estranged Spanish-speaking father, and together they renovate a brownstone and build a relationship while Almudena navigates the Latin American side of her heritage for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.
15) March
Author
Series
March volume 3
Pub. Date
2013-
Language
English
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ALA Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters - Comics Reading List 2022
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Description
John Lewis's autobiographical account of his lifelong battle for civil rights for all Americans.
Author
Series
Sugar Island volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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