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81) Bull
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"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 books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
83) Amber & Clay
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...
84) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Bartholomew Biddle's life has always been pretty ordinary, but when a huge wind blows past his window one night, he feels the call of adventure, grabs his bedsheet and starts flying. Soon he's soaring far above his little town, heading wherever the wind takes him. But will he be able to find his way home again?
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi keep her swim practices and meets hidden from Mami, who has never recovered from losing someone she loves to the water years ago. That is, until the day Ani's stiffness and swollen joints mean she can no longer get out of bed, and Ani is forced to reveal just how important swimming is to her. What follows is the journey of a girl who must grieve who she once was...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father...
92) The crossover
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-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.
94) Good different
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
95) A slip of a girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Set during the Irish Land Wars (1879-1882) this novel in verse follows Anna Mallon through a series of tragedies as her mother dies, older sibling immigrate to America, and she and her father and sister with special needs are about to be evicted from their farm"--
96) Kent State
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
NPM - Outstanding Books for the College Bound (YALSA) 2019
NPM - YA Tough Topics
NPM - Outstanding Books for the College Bound (YALSA) 2019
NPM - YA Tough Topics
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Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned intoa bloody battlefield.
97) Forever is now
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
98) Moonwalking
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
100) White Rose
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
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