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Booked
by Kwame Alexander
Soccer aficionado Nick discovers the power of words while wrestling with problems at home, standing up to a bully and trying to impress the girl of his dreams. Call Number: J/YA ALEXANDER
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Ms. Bixby's Last Day
by John David Anderson
Loving their gifted teacher, who makes them feel like the indignity of school is somehow worthwhile, three boys are dismayed when the teacher falls ill and leaves for the rest of the school year, a situation that compels them to share their stories while cutting class and journeying across town together on a fateful day. Call Number: J ANDERSON
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The Iron Trial
by Holly Black
Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past. Series: Magisterium Call Number: J BLACK
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Unbound: A Novel in Verse
by Ann E. Burg
Promising to remain unobtrusive and discreet when she is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Grace is unable to stay silent when she witnesses the numerous cruelties of heartless slave owners who brutalize and separate slave families. Call Number: J/YA BURG
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Moo
by Sharon Creech
A lyrical account of 12-year-old Reena's move to rural Maine follows her efforts to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow. Call Number: J CREECH
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
by Firoozeh Dumas
When her family once again moves and lands in California's Newport Beach in the late 1970s, Zomorod Yousefzadeh takes a new name in the hope of fitting in as tensions rise between America and her native Iran. Call Number: J/YA DUMAS
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Better Nate Than Ever
by Tim Federle
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical devises a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of E.T. Call Number: J FEDERLE
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Lily and Dunkin
by Donna Gephart
In a poignant tale by an award-winning author, a transgender girl and a boy struggling with bipolar disorder forge a friendship based on their respective experiences as outsiders trying to fit in. Call Number: J GEPHART
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The Inquisitor's Tale, or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
by Adam Gidwitz
Crossing paths at an inn, three 13th-century travelers impart the wryly whimsical tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee and a psychic peasant girl, who, in the company of a loyal greyhound, must escape evil knights, sit alongside a king and save their land from a flatulent dragon. Call Number: J GIDWITZ
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One Half from the East
by Nadia Hashimi
Forced to move from Kabul to a small village after her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, Obayda, the youngest of her sisters, dresses as a boy to bring her family luck and encounters an entirely different outside world of play and exploration alongside a fellow bacha posh. Call Number: J/YA HASHIMI
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Paper Things
by Jennifer Jacobson
Choosing to leave with her big brother when he decides he can no longer stay with their guardian, Ari endures a life of homelessness that challenges her schoolwork, friendships, and the promise made to her mother that she and her brother would stay together. Call Number: J JACOBSON
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Me and Marvin Gardens
by A. S. King
When his family's farmland is taken over by developers, Obe Devlin, a boy with health problems he doesn't like to think about, encounters a remarkable plastic-eating animal who becomes his best friend and biggest secret. Call Number: J KING
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Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
by Julie T. Lamana
At the end of August 2005, 10-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake. Call Number: J LAMANA
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March. Book One
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. Call Number: 323.092 LEW (graphic novel)
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Ghost
by Jason Reynolds
Aspiring to be the fasted sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, a gifted runner finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violence-prone father, in a debut entry of a series about four teammates from very different backgrounds. Series: Track Call Number: J REYNOLDS
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Falling Over Sideways
by Jordan Sonnenblick
The butt of jokes in her school and at home, awkward Claire is forced to confront more serious aspects of her life in the wake of her father's medical emergency, which challenges Claire to bring laughter back into the lives of those she loves. Call Number: YA SONNENBL
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
by Caren Barzelay Stelson
Tells the story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki through the eyes of Sachiko Yasui, who was six when the devastation was wrought, describing her experiences in the aftermath of the attack as well as her long journey to find peace. Call Number: J 921 YAS/ 940.5425224 YAS
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The Goldfish Boy
by Lisa Thompson
Suffering from a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that prevents him from going to school and subjects him to terrible episodes, Matthew is challenged to step outside of his insular world when he realizes he is the last person who saw a missing toddler. Call Number: J THOMPSON
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