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Realistic FictionMiddle School
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Don't cosplay with my heart
by Cecil Castellucci
Cosplaying under the guise of outspoken bad girl in order to navigate the challenges of a stressful family life, her best friend's summertime absence and her crush's confusing behavior, Edan connects with her dream boy at a costume competition where she struggles to find the strength to be a hero in real life. By the author of The Year of the Beast.
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Finding Mighty
by Sheela Chari
"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"
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The love letters of Abelard and Lily
by Laura Creedle
Landing in detention after secretly stopping her ADHD medication, Lily bonds with Abelard, an engaging boy with his own developmental challenges, over a mutual affinity for classic love letters and wonders if their growing attraction will be strong enough to bridge their differences.
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Losers Bracket
by Chris Crutcher
When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie’s swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back.
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Every shiny thing
by Laurie Morrison
When Lauren begins stealing to raise money for autistic kids, like her brother, who don't have her family's resources, she convinces Sierra, a foster child, to help with the Robin Hood scheme, in a story told half in prose and half in verse.
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The Summer of Broken Things
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as “butt-girl” at school. The two girls were friends as little kids, but that’s ancient history now. So it’s a huge surprise when Avery’s father offers to bring Kayla along on a summer trip to Spain. Avery is horrified that her father thinks he can choose her friends—and make her miss soccer camp. Kayla struggles just to imagine leaving the confines of her small town. But in Spain, the two uncover a secret their families had hidden from both of them their entire lives.
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Winterfolk
by Janel Kolby
Rain doesn’t wish on stars anymore. For as long as she can remember, her home has been among the Winterfolk, a group of homeless people living outside Seattle. Being homeless has taught Rain how to be invisible. But when she discovers that the city plans to sweep out the Winterfolk’s camp, her world is shattered. Determined to face the world like she’s never had to before, she convinces her friend King to take her to Seattle.
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Nice try, Jane Sinner
by Lianne Oelke
A jaded teen embarks on a darkly whimsical effort to remake her public image and restore inner peace in the wake of a personal crisis, an expulsion and an agreement with her family that she will finish high school if they allow her to move to the set of a teen-run reality show.
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Pretty
by Justin Sayre
A sequel to Husky finds biracial Sophie reevaluating her notions of beauty in the face of high school dynamics, her mother's alcoholism and racial tensions in her affluent community.
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. Itcould also endanger her life.
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Fire color one
by Jenny Valentine
A father and daughter reconnect after a life spent apart and discover that their mutual love of art is not the only thing they share in common. By the award-winning author of Me, the Missing, and the Dead.
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Piecing me together
by Renée Watson
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
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