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81) Red butterfly
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Language
English
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11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not just...
85) Rain remembers
Author
Series
Rain novels (Comrie) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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In the companion novel to the critically acclaimed Rain Rising, Rain must once again find the strength to rise above. The start of the school year is bringing a lot of changes for Rain: New school. No Circle Group. No Dr. McCalla. No Miss Walia. No step team. And Xander, her older brother and superhero, is away at college. Although everyone else seems okay with change, Rain struggles to open up to her new counselor, her mom, Umi, Alyssa, and even...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2024 (Gr. 6-8)
National Poetry Month - Kids
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Lone Star List 2024 (Gr. 6-8)
National Poetry Month - Kids
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Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.
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English
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"Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to ... [imagine] his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Kids under the stairs volume 1
Language
English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Dyslexia Awareness Month Youth
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Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Dyslexia Awareness Month Youth
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Told in multiple voices, four summer school classmates band together to save their teacher and their academic futures after Ms J.'s unorthodox teaching methods are questioned.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Women's History Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Women's History Month - Young Adults
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In Cuidad Juárez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help.
91) Forget me not
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette Syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
Author
Language
English
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Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
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Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.
93) Forest world
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
Author
Language
English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2024 (Gr. 9+ )
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2024 (Gr. 9+ )
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When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
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ALA Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters - Comics Reading List 2022
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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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.
96) Bull: a novel
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English
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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.
99) Sold
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Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Women's History Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Women's History Month - Young Adults
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
100) Chlorine sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
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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