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Does My Head Await Large in This? by Telephone call Number: YA FICTION ABDEL-FATTAH
Equally soon as 16-year-onetime Amal makes the decision to get-go wearing the hijab full-time, everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. Merely she stands by her decision to comprehend her organized religion and all that it is, fifty-fifty if it does make her a piddling different from everyone else. Can she handle the taunts of 'towel head' and the prejudice of her classmates and still hang out with the cutest boy in schoolhouse? Brilliantly funny and poignant, Randa Abdel-Fattah's debut novel will strike a chord in all teenage readers, no affair what their behavior.
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I Kill the Mockingbird past Telephone call Number: YA FICTION ACAMPORA
When Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summertime reading list, they are excited to see To Kill A Mockingbird included. Just not everyone in their course shares the aforementioned enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to become the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee archetype. They plan controversial ways to get people to read the volume, including re-shelving copies of the volume in bookstores so that people think they are missing and starting a website committed to "destroying the mockingbird." Their efforts are successful when all of the hullabaloo starts to directly more people to the book. But shortly, their exploits start to spin out of control and they unwittingly start a mini revolution in the proper name of books.
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The Poet X past Call Number: YA FICTION ACEVEDO
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People'south Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall difficult for this astonishing New York Times bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Always since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has enough she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially later she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family unit can never know virtually. With Mami's conclusion to forcefulness her daughter to obey the laws of the church building, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. And so when she is invited to join her school's slam verse lodge, she doesn't know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can't stop thinking almost performing her poems. Considering in the face of a globe that may non want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
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The New David Espinoza by Call Number: YA FICTION ACEVES
This ain voices story from the acclaimed writer of The Closest I've Come up unflinchingly examines steroid abuse and male body dysmorphia. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Matt De La Peña. David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully'south slap goes viral at the end of inferior year, David vows to use the summer to bulk upwardly-- do what information technology takes to go a human being--and wow anybody when school starts again the fall. Soon David is spending all his time and money at Atomic number 26 Life, a nearby gym that'south full of bodybuilders. Frustrated with his slow progress, his life eventually becomes all almost his muscle gains. As it says on the Fe Life wall, "What does not kill me makes me stronger." Equally David falls into the dark side of the bodybuilding earth, pursuing his ideal body at all costs, he'll have to grapple with the fact that it could actually cost him everything.
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Solo by Call Number: YA FICTION ALEXANDER
Bract never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known nearly for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The ane truthful light is his girlfriend, Chapel, just her parents accept forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will go just like his father. In reality, the only thing Bract and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives within them. And songwriting is all Blade has left afterward Rutherford, while drunkard, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel abroad forever. But when a long-held family cloak-and-dagger comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a alphabetic character, ane that could bring Blade the liberty and love he'southward been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift.
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Wintergirls past Call Number: YA FICTION ANDERSON
""Expressionless girl walking," the boys say in the halls. "Tell us your secret," the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the infinite between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame."
Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend's restless spirit. In her about emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-laurels-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia'south descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery. -
Mosquitoland by Phone call Number: YA FICTION ARNOLD
After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the "wastelands" of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the grit has a take chances to settle, she learns her female parent is sick back in Cleveland. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky bandage of fellow travelers along the way. But when her one thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never meet coming, Mim must face up her ain demons, redefining her notions of honey, loyalty, and what it ways to be sane. Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, Mosquitoland is a mod American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
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Charlotte Cuts It Out by Phone call Number: YA FICTION BARSON
"Lydia and I were in eighth grade when we came upwardly with our Grand Plan to go to cosmetology school and get jobs to build our clientele while we earned business concern degrees. So nosotros'd open our own salon..." At present Charlotte and Lydia are juniors, in a Cosmetology Arts programme where they'll become on-the-job training and college credits at the aforementioned time. The Grand Plan is right on schedule. Which means it'south time for Step Two- Win the Wintertime Manner Showcase, where Cos Arts and Fashion Design teams squad up to dazzle the judges with their skills. Charlotte is sure that she and Lydia have information technology locked up-and then certain, in fact, that she makes a life-changing bet with her female parent, who wants her to requite up cos for college. And that'southward when things start going off the rails. Every bit the clock ticks downward to the night of the Showcase, Charlotte has her hands full. Design divas. Models who turn down to be styled. Unexpectedly stiff competition. And and so, worst of all, Lydia-her BFF and Partner in Cos-turns out to accept a slightly different Thousand Plan...
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Hope Was Here by Call Number: YA FICTION BAUER
When Hope and her aunt movement to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope'due south non sure what to wait. Simply what they find is that the owner, G.T., isn't quite ready to give upward yet--in fact, he's decided to run for mayor confronting a decadent candidate. And equally Hope starts to make her place at the diner, she besides finds herself caught upward in G.T.'s campaign--particularly his visions for the future. Subsequently all, equally Yard.T. points out, anybody can use a trivial hope to help go through the tough times... fifty-fifty Hope herself.
Readers barbarous in love with teenage waitress Hope Yancey when Joan Bauer'south Newberry Honor honour-winning novel was published ten years ago. Now, with a terrific new jacket and note from the author, Hope'southward story will inspire a new grouping of teen readers. -
Blackness Enough by Telephone call Number: YA FICTION Black
Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today--Black Plenty is an essential collection of captivating stories about what information technology'southward like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List. Black is... sisters navigating their human relationship at summer army camp in Portland, Oregon, every bit written by Renée Watson. Black is... three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nix and everything, in a story past Jason Reynolds. Blackness is... Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never corroborate of. Black is... two girls kissing in Justina Ireland'southward story gear up in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more--considering there are countless ways to be Black enough. Contributors: Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Rita Williams-Garcia, Dhonielle Clayton, Kekla Magoon, Leah Henderson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Rock, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Ibi Zoboi, and Lamar Giles.
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Starfish by Call Number: YA FICTION BOWMAN
A William C. Morris Honor Finalist and a New York Public Library 2017 Best Book for Teens. A gorgeous and emotionally resonant debut novel about a half-Japanese teen who grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist female parent in the wake of a crushing rejection from art schoolhouse. Kiko Himura has always had a hard time proverb exactly what she's thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn't quite sympathise, Kiko prefers to keep her caput downwardly, sure that one time she makes information technology into her dream fine art school, Prism, her existent life volition begin. But then Kiko doesn't get into Prism, at the aforementioned time her abusive uncle moves dorsum in with her family. Then when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her modest boondocks and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that endeavour to hold her back. And now that she is finally free to be her own person outside the constricting walls of her home life, Kiko learns life-changing truths about herself, her past, and how to exist dauntless. From debut author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, heartbreaking story of identity, family unit, and the beauty that emerges when we encompass our true selves.
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The Princess Diaries by Phone call Number: YA FICTION CABOT
The kickoff book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries serial past Meg Cabot. Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than beingness a five-pes-nine, apartment-chested freshman, who also happens to exist flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra instructor. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who notwithstanding doesn't take a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance? The Princess Diaries is the commencement volume in the love, bestselling series that inspired the feature film starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.
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Dan Versus Nature by Call Number: YA FICTION CALAME
From screenwriter Don Calame comes another outrageously funny and raunchy tale of teen boys whose plans go awry -- this time, on a survivalist camping trip. Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his fourth dimension creating graphic novels inspired by his dream daughter and looking out for his mom as she dates every human being in the state of California. And so his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she's sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping ground trip to "bond." Determined to trick Hank into showing his true -- flawed -- colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe best friend, Charlie, prepare a series of increasingly gross and embarrassing pranks. But the boys hadn't counted on a hot girl joining their trip or on getting separated from their wilderness guide--not to mention the humiliating injuries Dan suffers in the course of terrorizing his stepdad-to-be. With a human-hungry comport on their trail, no supplies, and a lot of unpleasant itching going on, can Dan see his program through now that his very survival depends on Hank?
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Turtle under Ice by Call Number: YA FICTION DELROSARIO
A teen navigates questions of grief, identity, and guilt in the wake of her sis'due south mysterious disappearance in this breathtaking novel-in-poetry from the writer of 500 Words or Less--perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo. Rowena feels like her family is a frayed string of lights that someone needs to ready with electric tape. Afterwards her mother died a few years ago, she and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the globe, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a earth in which their mother is no longer live. But and then Ariana disappears under the cover of night in the middle of a snowstorm, leaving no trace or tracks. When Row wakes up to a world of snow and her sister's empty sleeping accommodation, she is left to slice together the mystery backside where Ariana went and why, realizing along the way that she might be part of the reason Ariana is gone. Haunting and evocative--and told in dual perspectives--Turtle Under Water ice examines ii sisters frozen past grief equally they search for a way to unthaw.
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Furious Thing past Call Number: YA FICTION DOWNHAM
Shortlisted for the Costa Volume Awards. Named every bit one of the best books of 2019 past the Sunday Times, Financial Times and Irish Times. Lexi'south aroused. And information technology'south getting worse. If only she could stop losing her temper and behave herself, her stepfather would accept her, her mom would love her similar she used to, and her stepbrother would declare his crushing desire to spend the rest of his life with her. She wants these things and so badly, she's determined to swallow her anger and make her family proud. Only pushing fury down doesn't go far disappear. Instead, it simmers below the surface waiting to erupt... And in that location'll be fireworks when it does. From the bestselling and award-winning author of Earlier I Dice, Y'all Confronting Me, and Unbecoming comes a remarkably affecting story that explores the myriad of ways a girl's sense of cocky can be whittled abroad, and what might happen when she fights back.
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Boys Don't Knit (in Public) past Phone call Number: YA FICTION EASTON
After an incident regarding a crossing baby-sit and a canteen of Martini & Rossi (and his friends), 17-yr-old worrier Ben Fletcher must develop his sense of social alignment, take up a hobby, and exercise some customs service to avoid any further probation. He takes a knitting class (it was that or his father'south mechanic class) with the impression that it's taught by the hot teacher all the boys similar. Turns out, information technology's non. Perfect. Regardless, he sticks with it and comes to discover he's a natural knitter, perchance even great. It besides helps ease his feet and worrying. The only challenge now is to continue it hidden from his friends, his beat, and his soccer-obsessed father. What a tangled web Ben has weaved... or knitted.
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We Walked the Sky by Call Number: YA FICTION FIEDLER
In 1965 seventeen-year-quondam Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a amend life. 50 years later, Victoria's sixteen-yr-old granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope walker with dreams of being a VanDrexel high wire legend only similar her grandmother, Callie can't imagine herself anywhere but the circus. But when Callie's mother accepts her dream job at an animate being sanctuary in Florida just months subsequently Victoria's death, Callie is forced to get out her lifelong dwelling house behind. Feeling unmoored and out of her element, Callie pores over memorabilia from her family'due south days on the road, including a box that belonged to Victoria when she was Callie's age. In the box, Callie finds notes that Victoria wrote to herself with tips and tricks for navigating her new world. Inspired by this piece of her grandmother'southward life, Callie decides to apply Victoria's circus prowess to navigate the uncharted waters of public high school. Beyond generations, Victoria and Callie embrace the challenges of starting over, letting go, and finding new families in unexpected places.
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Not So Pure and Elementary past Phone call Number: YA FICTION GILES
Two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it ways to be a "real human being." Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she's finally available. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del'due south right behind her. Though, he apace realizes he's inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge. His dad thinks his wires are crossed, and his best friend, Qwan, doesn't believe any girl is worth the long game. But Del's non virtually to lose his dream daughter, and that'south where fellow pledger Jameer comes in. He can put in the practiced give-and-take. In substitution, Del just has to get answers to the Pledgers' questions... about sex ed. With other boys circling Kiera like sharks, Del needs to make his move fast. But as he plots and plans, he neglects to ask the about important question: What does Kiera want? He tin can't think most that too much, though, considering once he gets the girl, information technology'll all sort itself out. Correct?
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Girl Mans Up by Phone call Number: YA FICTION GIRARD
All Pen wants is to exist the kind of girl she'due south e'er been. So why does anybody have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to exist a male child--that she should quit trying to exist something she's not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, information technology will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, information technology will testify her loyalty. Merely respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words. Erstwhile-world parents, disintegrating friendships, and strong feelings for other girls bulldoze Pen to see the truth--that in lodge to be who she truly wants to be, she'll have to man upward.
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Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Call Number: YA FICTION GORNALL
Norah has agoraphobia and OCD. When groceries are left on the porch, she tin can't step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He's sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Considering of grade he did. Norah tin't go out the house, but can she allow someone in? As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal daughter. One who can lie on the front lawn and look upwards at the stars. Ane who isn't so screwed up. Readers themselves will fall in love with Norah in this poignant, humorous, and deeply engaging portrait of a teen struggling to find the strength to face up her demons.
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Refugee past Call Number: YA FICTION GRATZ
A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely -- and timeless -- novel tells the powerful story of three different children seeking refuge. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family unit board a ship bound for the other side of the world... Isabel is a Cuban daughter in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... Mahmoud is a Syrian male child in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids continue harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All volition face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. Just in that location is e'er the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will necktie their stories together in the finish. This activeness-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for domicile.
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The How and the Why past Call Number: YA FICTION Mitt
A poignant exploration of family unit and the ties that demark, from New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Manus. Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a daughter could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents tin't answer, no matter how much they dearest her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a serial of messages. And they may just concur the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between Cass'south search for answers and letters from the meaning teen who placed her for adoption, this emotionally resonant narrative is the perfect read for fans of Nina LaCour and Jandy Nelson.
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The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Witty, sarcastic Ethan and his three friends make up one's mind to have downwards the reality TV show, For Fine art's Sake, that is being filmed at their high school, the esteemed Selwyn Arts Academy, where each student is more talented than the next. While studying Ezra Pound in English course, the friends are inspired to write a vigilante long poem and distribute it to the pupil body, detailing the evils of For Art's Sake. Just then Luke-the creative force behind the poem and leader of the anti-show movement-becomes a contestant on the nefarious show. Information technology's upwards to Ethan, his two remaining all-time friends, and a heroic gerbil named Baconnaise to save their school. Forth the way, they'll discover a web of secrets and corruption involving the principal, vice principal, and even their favorite teacher.
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Darius the Great Is Non Okay past Phone call Number: YA FICTION KHORRAM
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more near Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's most to take his kickoff-always trip to Islamic republic of iran, and it'southward pretty overwhelming-specially when he'south also dealing with clinical depression, a disapproving dad, and a chronically bloodless social life. In Iran, he gets to know his bilious but still formidable grandfather, his loving grandmother, and the rest of his mom's family for the first time. And he meets Sohrab, the male child adjacent door who changes everything. Sohrab makes sure people speak English then Darius can understand what'due south going on. He gets Darius an Iranian National Football Squad jersey that makes him experience like a True Persian for the commencement time. And he understands that sometimes, all-time friends don't accept to talk. Darius has never had a true friend before, simply now he's spending his days with Sohrab playing soccer, eating rosewater ice cream, and sitting together for hours in their special place, a rooftop overlooking the Yazdi skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush-the original Persian version of his name-and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does at present that he'due south Darioush to Sohrab. When it'south time to go home to America, he'll have to find a way to be Darioush on his own.
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Nosotros Are Okay past Call Number: YA FICTION LACOUR
Winner of the 2018 Michael Fifty. Printz Accolade --An achingly beautiful novel well-nigh grief and the enduring power of friendship. "You go through life thinking there's so much you need.... Until you exit with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother." Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her quondam life since the day she left everything backside. No one knows the truth about those concluding weeks. Non even her best friend Mabel. Merely even thousands of miles away from the California declension, at college in New York, Marin nevertheless feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months subsequently, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that's been left implied and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her middle. An intimate whisper that packs an enduring dial, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave y'all urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people y'all beloved.
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Draw the Line past Afterwards a hate criminal offense occurs in his small Texas town, Adrian Piper must discover his own power, decide how to utilize it, and know where to draw the line in this stunning debut novel exquisitely illustrated by the author. Adrian Piper is used to blending into the groundwork. He may exist a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but at his Texas high school those traits would only bring him the worst kind of attention. In fact, the only place he feels gratuitous to express himself is at his drawing table, crafting a underground world through his own Renaissance-art-inspired superhero, Graphite. But in real life, when a shocking hate criminal offense flips his world upside down, Adrian must decide what kind of person he wants to be. Perhaps it'south time to not exist so invisible afterwards all--no matter how dangerous the risk.
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What I Behave by Call Number: YA FICTION LONGO
Growing upwards in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one affair, information technology is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional zipper to friends? Foster families? A boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for whatsoever boosted baggage. Muir has just i year left earlier she ages out of the system. One year before she'due south free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could arrive her way. Then she meets Francine. And Kira. And Sean. And everything changes.
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Echoes Between Us by Call Number: YA FICTION MCGARRY
A girl with nothing to live for and a boy with everything to lose: Veronica sees ghosts--more specifically, her mother'due south ghost. The afterimages of blinding migraines that consumes her whole life and keeps Veronica on the fringes. Just the haunting makes her wonder if in that location is something more going on.... Golden boy Sawyer is handsome and popular, a state champion swimmer, but this All-American is hiding an adrenaline addiction that could kill him. Drawn to each other subsequently a chance meeting, can they help each other battle the demons that haunt their every footstep or will they button their luck as well far and run a risk losing information technology all... including their lives?
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Slay past Call Number: YA FICTION MORRIS
Fix Thespian I meets The Detest U Requite in this dynamite debut novel that follows a violent teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther-inspired video game she created and the prophylactic community it represents for Black gamers. Past day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the just Black kids at Jefferson University. Just at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family unit, non even her swain, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the "downfall of the Black man." But when a teen in Kansas Urban center is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY globe, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination." Driven to save the merely world in which she tin be herself, Kiera must preserve her hole-and-corner identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a earth intimidated by Blackness. Merely can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?
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Dairy Queen past When you don't talk, at that place's a lot of stuff that ends upwards not getting said. Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can't help admitting, peradventure he'due south right. When you lot don't talk, there'south a lot of stuff that ends up non getting said. Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn't so friendly anymore. Or why her little blood brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a large secret. Why her higher-football-star brothers won't fifty-fifty phone call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she tried out for the high school football team herself. And why Brian is so, so out of her league. When you don't talk, there'south a lot of stuff that ends upward non getting said. Welcome to the summer that xv-year-old D.J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an atrocious lot of stuff to say.
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Puddin' by Call Number: YA FICTION MURPHY
Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every twelvemonth since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to hunt her secret dream of being a newscaster--and to kiss the boy she's crushing on. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is side by side in line for dance squad captain and has the popular young man. But when it comes to other girls, she's more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the grade of a semester, they surprise everyone (specially themselves) by realizing that they might have more in common than they ever imagined. A story virtually unexpected friendship, romance, and Texas-size girl power, this is another winner from Julie Murphy.
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Overnice Try, Jane Sinner by Call Number: YA FICTION OELKE
The only thing 17-twelvemonth-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crunch and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she's going nowhere fast. Jane's well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion plan at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on i condition: she gets to move out. Jane tackles her housing problem by signing upwardly for House of Orange, a student-run reality evidence that is basically Big Brother, but for Elbow River students. Living away from home, the run a risk to win a car (used, but whatever), and a campus full of people who don't know what she did in high schoolhouse... what more than could she want? Okay, maybe a family unit that understands why she'd rather plow to Freud than Jesus to brand sense of her life, but she'll settle for fifteen minutes in the proverbial spotlight. As Firm of Orangish grows from a low-budget web serial to a local TV show with fans and shoddy T-shirts, Jane finally has the hazard to allow her contemptuous, competitive nature thrive. She'll utilise her growing fan base, and whatsoever Intro to Psychology tin can teach her, to evidence to the world--or at least viewers of substandard TV--that she has what information technology takes to win.
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Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Telephone call Number: YA FICTION ORMSBEE
From the author of Lucky Few comes a quirky teen novel almost Internet fame, peer force per unit area, and remembering not to step on the picayune people on your way to the meridian! Later on a shout-out from ane of the Internet's superstar vloggers, Natasha "Tash" Zelenka of a sudden finds herself and her obscure, apprentice web series, Unhappy Families, thrust in the limelight: She's gone viral. Her bear witness is a modern adaption of Anna Karenina--written past Tash's literary love Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo" Tolstoy. Tash is a fan of the 40,000 new subscribers, their gushing tweets, and flashy Tumblr gifs. Non and then much the pressure to deliver the all-time web series ever. And when Unhappy Families is nominated for a Aureate Tuba award, Tash's cyber-flirtation with a swain accolade nominee all of a sudden has the potential to get something IRL--if she can figure out how to tell said shell that she's romantic asexual. Tash wants to enjoy her newfound fame, but will she lose her friends in her rise to the top? What would Tolstoy do?
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Call Number: YA FICTION PHILIPPE
William C. Morris YA Debut Laurels Winner! Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite perchance too smart for his ain skillful. A Black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those 3 things don't bode well when yous are moving to Austin, Texas. Plunked into a new loftier school and sweating a ridiculous corporeality from the oppressive Texas heat, Norris finds himself cataloging anybody he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he tin can at least amuse himself until it's time to get back to Canada, where he belongs. Yet confronting all odds, those labels soon become actual people to Norris... like loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris, or Madison the beta cheerleader, who is so nice that it has to be a trap. Not to mention Aarti the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who might, in fact, be a real love interest in the making. Simply the night of the prom, Norris screws everything up royally. As he tries to pick upwards the pieces, he realizes it might be time to stop hiding behind his snarky opinions and beginning living his life--along with the people who accept found their way into his heart.
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Fangirl by Call Number: YA FICTION ROWELL
In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, existence a fan is her life-and she'south actually good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were merely kids; it's what got them through their female parent leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every moving-picture show premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let get. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't desire to exist roommates. Cath is on her ain, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized earth, a handsome classmate who simply wants to talk about words... And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who'south loving and frail and has never actually been alone. For Cath, the question is: Tin she do this? Tin can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she fifty-fifty desire to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
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The Cardturner past Telephone call Number: YA FICTION SACHAR
How are nosotros supposed to exist partners? He tin can't see the cards and I don't know the rules! The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. He has no coin and no job. His parents insist that he drive his great-uncle Lester to his span guild iv times a week and be his cardturner--whatever that means. Alton's uncle is old, blind, very ill, and very rich. But Alton'southward parents aren't the simply ones trying to worm their fashion into Lester Trapp'due south skilful graces. They're in contest with his longtime housekeeper, his alluring young nurse, and the crazy Castaneda family unit, who seem to accept a mysterious influence over him. Alton soon finds himself intrigued by his uncle, by the game of bridge, and peculiarly by the pretty and shy Toni Castaneda. As the summer goes on, he struggles to figure out what it all means, and ultimately to figure out the meaning of his own life. Through Alton's wry observations, Louis Sachar explores the disparity between what you know and what y'all think you know. With his incomparable flair and inventiveness, he examines the elusive differences between perception and reality--and inspires readers to remember and recollect again.
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I Am Non Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Call Number: YA FICTION SANCHEZ
The Admittedly True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant just ofttimes laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing upward in a Mexican-American domicile. Perfect Mexican daughters do non go abroad to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family unit. But Julia is non your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's part. Then a tragic blow on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left backside to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible style Julia has failed. Only it'due south not long before Julia discovers that Olga might non accept been every bit perfect as everyone idea. With the assistance of her all-time friend Lorena, and her first love, showtime everything young man Connor, Julia is adamant to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was at that place more to her sister'southward story? And either way, how can Julia fifty-fifty attempt to alive upwardly to a seemingly impossible platonic?
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Don't Read the Comments by Call Number: YA FICTION SMITH
Nosotros all need a identify to escape from the real earth. For Divya and Aaron, information technology'due south the earth of online gaming. While Divya trades her rise-star condition for sponsorships to help her struggling single mom pay hire, Aaron plays as a fashion to fuel his own dreams of becoming a game developer - and equally a way to disappear when his mom starts talking near medical school. After a take a chance online meeting, the pair decides to team up - but shortly find themselves the targets of a grouping of internet trolls who brainstorm launching a real-world doxxing campaign, threatening Aaron's dream and Divya's actual life. They think they can drive her out of the game, but Divya'due south whole world is on the line... And she isn't going down without a fight.
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