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81) The Agathas
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Series
Agathas mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.
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Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom.
83) Punching bag
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Back to School - Young Adult
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (YA Gr. 9+)
Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (YA Gr. 9+)
Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...
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These hollow vows volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Brie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she'll do whatever it takes to get her back--including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court..."--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender's rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends' lives and she must figure out a way to beat the kidnapper at his own game before she loses everything.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
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Aristotle and Dante volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Summer Reading List ALSC 2023 Gr. 6-8
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Summer Reading List ALSC 2023 Gr. 6-8
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
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"Before he led Ravka's Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. But they will never find a safe haven. They are not only Grisha--they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind. Feared by those who wish to destroy them and hunted by those who would exploit their gifts, they must hide their...
90) Huda F are you
Author
Series
Huda F books volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Back to School - Young Adult
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Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Back to School - Young Adult
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Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not...
91) Squire
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
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"Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. It's not how she imagined it, though. Aiza must navigate new friendships, rivalries, and rigorous training under the unyielding General Hende, all while hiding her Ornu background. As the pressure mounts, Aiza realizes that the "greater good"...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Pride Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Pride Month - Young Adults
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Description
Taylor Barzelay seems to have the perfect life, with good looks and good grades, but they are actually an alien princess from the planet Cyandii, and after six long years of accepting the duty to remain in hiding as a boy on Earth, it all changes when they meet confident Metropolis city girl Katherine.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, this adaptation includes a historical note.
94) Girl on fire
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Tayshas List 2023 (Gr. 9+)
Description
"Lolo Wright always thought she was just a regular fourteen-year-old dealing with regular family drama: her brother, James, is struggling with his studies; her dad's business constantly teeters on the edge of trouble; and her mother... she left long ago. But then Lolo's world explodes when a cop pulls a gun on James in a dangerous case of mistaken identities. Staring down the barrel, with no one else to help, Lolo discovers powers she never knew she...
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