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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The NBA all-time leading scorer and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee presents a memoir that focuses on the important sports teachers in his life, including his strict father, his high school coach and Coach Wooden. Call Number: NF 796.323092 ABD (Biography)
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Small Spaces
by Katherine Arden
After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to venture through frightening woods, relying on her wits to survive and sticking to small spaces. Call Number: J ARDEN
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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
by Jonathan Auxier
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem. Call Number: J AUXIER
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Drum Roll, Please
by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Unexpectedly enjoying her membership in a band she was talked into joining, drummer Melly embarks on what she believes will be a rocking summer at camp only to find everything upended by her parents' separation, her best friend's estrangement, her crush on a fellow camper and her doubts about her performance readiness. Call Number: J BIGELOW
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride, 1961
by Larry Dane Brimner
Documents the heroic 1961 campaign of the civil rights activists known as the "Freedom Riders," describing their peaceful protests to raise awareness about unconstitutional segregation and the increasing violence they endured as they traveled south. Call Number: J 323.1196073 BRI
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Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
by Angela Cervantes
When Lizzie and Gael share an irresistible challenge to find the peacock ring that once belonged to artist Frida Kahlo, Paloma decides it is the perfect way to honor her father. Call Number: J CERVANTE
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New Kid
by Jerry Craft
Enrolled in a prestigious private school where he is one of only a few students of color, talented seventh-grade artist Jordan finds himself torn between the worlds of his Washington Heights apartment home and the upscale circles of Riverdale Academy. Newbery Medal Winner. Call Number: J CRAFT (Graphic Novel)
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The Only Road
by Alexandra Diaz
Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous journey from his home in Guatemala to his older brother in New Mexico after his cousin is murdered by a drug cartel. Call Number: YA DIAZ
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The Parker Inheritance
by Varian Johnson
Candice is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the house that belonged to her late grandmother. When she finds a letter than led her grandmother on a treasure hunt, Candice gets caught up in the mystery. Call Number: J JOHNSON
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Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees
by Mary Beth Leatherdale
This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young refugees from different world regions who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of safety and freedom. Call Number: J 305.906914 LEA
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Nowhere Boy
by Katherine Marsh
The lives of Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and Max, an American boy, collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, they will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny. Call Number: J MARSH
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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
by Stacy McAnulty
Surviving a lightning strike that has given her genius-level math skills, 12-year-old Lucy is offered entry into college but reluctantly takes her grandmother's advice to attend one year of middle school, make a friend, join a club and read a non-math book. Call Number: J MCANULTY
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Resistance
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
In 1942, sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos. When a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested, she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works. Call Number: YA NIELSEN
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Spirit Hunters
by Ellen Oh
Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother starts acting strangely. Call Number: J OH
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A Good Kind of Trouble
by Lisa Moore Ramée
Strictly following the rules to pursue her junior-high ambitions, 12-year-old Shayla is forced to choose between her education and her identity when her sister joins the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of a powerful protest. Call Number: J RAMEE
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Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
Driven by the secrets and vengeance that mark his street culture, 15-year-old Will contemplates over the course of 60 psychologically suspenseful seconds whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother. Call Number: YA REYNOLDS
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Amal Unbound
by Aisha Saeed
Forced to leave school to care for her siblings in accordance with Pakistani village tradition, a disappointed Amal suffers an accidental run-in with the son of a corrupt landlord and is forced into indentured servitude. Witnessing her master's nefarious dealings compels her to make risky alliances in support of change. Call Number: J SAEED
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Speechless
by Adam P. Schmitt
Informed that he will be expected to say a few words at his cousin's wake, 13-year-old Jimmy struggles to come up with something nice to say about his bullying, destructive cousin before realizing that the words that are truly heard are the ones that matter the most. Call Number: J SCHMITT
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Nightbooks
by J. A. White
A young boy is imprisoned by a witch in a New York apartment and must tell her a new scary story each night in order to stay alive. Call Number: J WHITE
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Front Desk
by Kelly Yang
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown Southern California motel for skinflint Mr. Yao, whose son is the only other Chinese American in Mia's class. Call Number: J YANG
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