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Anger Is a Gift
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Mark Oshiro
A young adult debut by the popular social media personality and critic reflects the racial and economic struggles of today's teens in the story of high school junior Moss, who in the face of a racist school administration decides to organize a protest that escalates into violence. Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award.
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Challenger Deep
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Neal Shusterman
A brilliant but troubled high school student pretends to engage in sports activities and uses his artistic talents to document his voyage to the world's most southern point while his friends observe his increasingly unbalanced behavior. National Book Award and Golden Kite Award Winner.
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Far from the Tree
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Robin Benway
Feeling incomplete as an adopted child after placing her own baby up for adoption, teen Grace tracks down her biological siblings and finds herself struggling with the dynamics of being a middle child between an embittered older brother and an outspoken younger sister. National Book Award Winner.
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The Thing About Luck
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Cynthia Kadohata
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers. The winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
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M. T. Anderson
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Boston Authors Club Young Reader Award, the Margaret A. Edwards Award and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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What I Saw and How I Lied
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Judy Blundell
When Joe Spooner brings an old buddy back home with him from the battlefields of World War II, Evie finds herself in a complicated situation that becomes even more dangerous when their family's guest suddenly drowns as dark family secrets are revealed. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South. National Book Award Winner.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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Phillip M. Hoose
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company. National Book Award Winner.
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The Nazi Hunters
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Neal Bascomb
Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust. YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Winner.
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
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Deborah Heiligman
The bond between brothers was never stronger. Drawing on their lifelong correspondence, Heiligman plumbs their journey from an ascetic upbringing in a Protestant parsonage to the auction houses of Europe as Theo develops business acumen, all the while supporting volatile Vincent’s groundbreaking artistic endeavors both materially and emotionally. Their devotion to each other was so profound that there could have been no Vincent van Gogh without Theo. YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Winner.
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American Born Chinese
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Gene Luen Yang
In an action-packed modern fable about the problems young Chinese Americans face when trying to participate in American popular culture, the lives of three apparently unrelated characters--Jin Wang, Monkey King, and Chin-Kee--come together with an unexpected twist. Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award.
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March
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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. 2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature. 2017 Printz Award Winner. 2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner. 2017 Sibert Medal Winner. 2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner. 2017 Walter Award Winner.
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian refugees
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Don Brown
Presents a graphic account of the events of Syrian refugees' attempt to escape the horrors of their country's civil war in search of a better tomorrow. YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Winner.
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This One Summer
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Mariko Tamaki
The team behind Skim presents the sumptuous graphic tale of a young teen whose latest summer at a beach lake house is overshadowed by her parents' constant arguments, her younger friend's secret sorrows and the dangerous activities of older teens. Ignatz Award Winner.
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