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ALA Youth Media Awards 2022 - Young Adults
Native American Heritage - Young Adults
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 9-12 2022
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Native American Heritage - Young Adults
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 9-12 2022
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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.
2) All my rage
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Asian Pacific American Heritage - 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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5th Grade Rocks
ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Children
ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Young Adults
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Children
ALA Youth Media Awards 2021 - Young Adults
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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...
5) Scythe
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Arc of a scythe volume 1
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"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
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Back to School - Young Adult
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
LGBTQIA+ - Young Adults
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
LGBTQIA+ - 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.
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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Hispanic Heritage 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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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Immigrant Heritage Month - Young Adults
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Immigrant Heritage Month - Young Adults
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"Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents' high expectations....
9) Going bovine
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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) This One Summer
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2014
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A New York Times bestseller
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
An Eisner Award Winner
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from
11) Code name Verity
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Code name Verity volume 1
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English
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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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(Andrew Anselmo),Grasshopper jungle volume 1
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2014.
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English
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"Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong"--
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