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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
2) The poet X
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction - Storage
YAFIC ACE
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YAFIC ACE
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
YAFIC ACE
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YAFIC ACE
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Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Nonfiction
YA 811.6 ACE
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YA 811.6 ACE
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"In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason Reynolds's For Everyone, this poem can now be read in a...
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Fiction - Storage
JFICTION ALE
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JFICTION ALE
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Fiction - Summer/Reading List
JFICTION ALE
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JFICTION ALE
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Fiction
JFICTION ALE
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JFICTION ALE
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Media - Audiobooks
ZS ALEXANDER CROSSOVER A 07
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ZS ALEXANDER CROSSOVER A 07
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Fiction - Storage
JFICTION ALE
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JFICTION ALE
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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.
5) Booked
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Media - Audiobooks
ZS ALEXANDER BOOKED A 02
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ZS ALEXANDER BOOKED A 02
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"Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams"--OCLC.
6) Rebound
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Fiction - Storage
JFICTION ALE
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JFICTION ALE
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Fiction
JFICTION ALE
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JFICTION ALE
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Juvenile Media - Audiobooks
ZS ALEXANDER REBOUND B 88
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ZS ALEXANDER REBOUND B 88
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
7) Solo
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
YAFIC ALE
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YAFIC ALE
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Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
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"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school-whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the...
9) Crank
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction - Storage
YAFIC HOP
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YAFIC HOP
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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.
10) Glass
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Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Now with a baby to care for, Kristina is determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong and, before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to keep going, to face the pressures of day-to-day life. She will do anything...
11) White Rose
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Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
12) Mascot
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"Six eighth graders outside Washington, DC, navigate through conflict and division focused on their school district's Native American mascot"--Provided by publisher.
Six eighth graders in Washington, DC, navigate through the conflict and division sparked by a school assignment focused on their town's Native American mascot.
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Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of...
14) Enter the body
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In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
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Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
17) Muted
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
YAFIC CHA
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YAFIC CHA
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A tale inspired by true events traces the experiences of a talented singer who wants to escape her all-white community before catching the attention of an R&B star who gives her access to fame and luxury in exchange for unscrupulous sacrifices.
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
YAFIC ELH
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YAFIC ELH
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"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up faraway in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...
20) Chlorine sky
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Morristown-Morris Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
YAFIC BRO
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YAFIC BRO
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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.