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41) Wave
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English
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When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
42) Beyond me
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, eleven-year-old Maya overcomes her own fear to help others at home and in northeast Japan, where a tsunami caused great damage. Includes author's note about the facts behind the story.
43) Junk boy
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Bobby, who is bullied by the kids at school for living in a home with a front yard that is filled with garbage, meets a young artist who teaches him to see himself as more than "Junk Boy.""--
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Children
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
National Poetry Month - Kids
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
National Poetry Month - Kids
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When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way. Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train...
46) Eddie's war
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Hitler is threatening to take over the world and Eddie Carl thinks America should stop him-- it's just plain right. But Eddie's just a kid, and the farm in Ellisville, Illinois is a long way from the fighting.
47) House arrest
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
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Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
48) Rain rising
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Series
Rain novels (Comrie) volume 1
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English
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Black History Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Summer Reading List ALSC 2023 Gr. 6-8
Lone Star List 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Summer Reading List ALSC 2023 Gr. 6-8
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Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"I Feel Bad About My Neck meets Elizabeth Berg in celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones's first adult novel, weaving together a seamless narrative in free verse--a funny, fierce and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Miles Morales Spider-Man volume 2
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English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
51) A time to dance
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
52) Lawless spaces
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English
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While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
53) Alone
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Lone Star List 2022 (Gr. 6-8)
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2022
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2022
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When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or Internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own, her only companions being a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. Told in verse format.
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Eleanor Kane books volume 1
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English
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When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
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English
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5th Grade Rocks
Arab American Book Award - Children / Young Adult
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
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Arab American Book Award - Children / Young Adult
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
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Description
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
56) Girls like me
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail.
57) Unsettled
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2022
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
National Poetry Month - Kids
NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (ages 3-13) 2022
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
58) After the kiss
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Pub. Date
2010.
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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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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age...and the cruelty of mirrors...and food. Jake has read about kids like him in booksthe weird one, the outsider and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the...
60) I am Kavi
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"1998, Colombo. The Sri Lankan Civil War is raging, but everyday life must go on. At Kavi's school, her friends talk about the weekly Top 40, the Backstreet Boys, Shahrukh Khan, Leo & Kate... and who died--or didn't--in the latest bombing. But Kavi is afraid of something even scarier than war. She fears that if her friends discover her secret--that she is not who she is pretending to be--they'll stop talking to her. Kavi's scholarship to her elite...
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