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Apple and Rain
by Sarah Crossan
When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in reading and writing poetry
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Breath to Breath by Craig Lew
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5 to 1 : a novel by Holly BodgerWhen females are rendered a valuable commodity after decades of gender selection that has caused boys to outnumber girls in India's Koyanagar, a girl who wants to avoid marriage and a boy who is forced to compete for a wife thwart each other before realizing they want the same thing.
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Dating down by Stefanie LyonsUnable to resist her attraction to a local troublemaker despite warnings from her family and friends, Samantha risks her future, believing she can put an end to his cheating, lying and drug abuse.
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William Shakespeare's the Phantom of menace : Star Wars Part the First
by Ian Doescher
The best-selling Elizabethan science-fiction mashup series continues with a Shakespearean adaptation of the first Star Wars prequel that finds a disguised queen, a young hero and two brave knights clashing with a hidden, vengeful enemy in witty iambic pentameter.
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Rumble
by Ellen Hopkins
Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything—not in his family, which is in shambles after his younger brother was bullied into suicide; or his so-called friends or some all-powerful creator; but when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark, silent place, he begins to question everything he's ever disbelieved.
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A time to dance
by Padma Venkatraman
Losing her leg after a devastating injury, talented Indian dancer Veda begins retraining on her prosthetic leg before falling in love with a young man who approaches dance from a spiritual perspective and who helps Veda to better understand herself and the world.
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Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty
by Christine Heppermann
An evocative treasury of 50 free-verse poems that juxtapose fairy-tale elements against the life of a modern teen explores the universal cruelty of judgment, pressure and self-doubt while reflecting how girls are taught to think about themselves, their friends and their bodies.
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William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back : Star Wars part the fifth
by Ian Doescher
A follow-up to the best-selling William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope returns readers to a galaxy far, far away, where a brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power and soliloquize in elegant iambic pentameter.
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William Shakespeare's the Jedi doth return
by Ian Doescher
A riotous conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that began with William Shakespeare's Star Wars returns fans to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away, where a brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power and soliloquize in iambic pentameter.
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Two girls staring at the ceiling
by Lucy Frank
An evocative novel in verse traces the unfolding friendship between two very different teen girls who share a hospital room and an illness from which one gradually recovers while the other languishes.
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And we stay
by Jenny Hubbard
Shattered by her boyfriend's gun attack at school, during which he threatened her with a stolen weapon before taking his own life, Emily transfers to a Massachusetts boarding school where she meets a ghost and receives support from two quirky girls before finding the strength to heal, in a story told in verse and prose. By the award-nominated author of Paper Covers Rock.
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How I discovered poetry
by Marilyn Nelson
The National Book Award, Newbery Honor and multiple Coretta Scott King Honor-winning poet reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through 50 illuminating poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" atomic bomb era and the Feminist Movement.
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The lightning dreamer : Cuba's greatest abolitionist
by Margarita Engle
A historical novel in verse by the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Surrender Tree presents the story of poet, abolitionist and women's rights pioneer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, who bravely resisted an arranged marriage at the age of 14 and was ultimately courageous enough to use her passionate, metaphorical verses to protest slavery in the dangerous political environment of 19th-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts and source notes.
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Smoke
by Ellen Hopkins
A companion to Burned finds Pattyn on the run in the wake of her abusive father's death and the tragic losses of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, while Jackie stays at home with a mother whose desperation for normalcy compels her to allow a cover-up by domineering community leaders.
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Leap write in! : adventures in creative writing to s-t-r-e-t-c-h & surprise your one-of-a-kind mind
by Karen Benke
Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you'll be inspired to explore all the wacky, confusing, brave, soul-stirring wonderings and wanderings of your emerging life's inner treasure in a way that's sure to unleash what you most need to say.
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