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• TEENS' TOP 10 - #yalsaTTT •
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THE 2020 WINNING RESULTS ARE IN! FROM YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) website: The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Teens across the country will be weighing in and selecting their favorite books, so make your voice heard.
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Wayward son
by Rainbow Rowell
A highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Carry On finds an overwhelmed Simon joining Penny and Bax on a trip to the American West in a vintage convertible, only to be confronted by dragons, vampires and gun-toting skunks.
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Pumpkinheads
by Rainbow Rowell
Working at a pumpkin patch every autumn, two seasonal best friends organize ultimate Halloween plans to celebrate their last working year together. By the award-winning author of Fangirl and the Eisner Award-winning illustrator of the Nameless City trilogy.
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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X.
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Aurora rising : Aurora cycle_01
by Amie Kaufman
Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making. By the best-selling authors of the Illuminae Files.
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Broken throne : a Red Queen collection
by Victoria Aveyard
A lavishly designed anthology set in the world of the best-selling Red Queen series includes four original novella-length stories, the previously published novellas Steel Scars and Queen Song and exclusive bonus content, including previously unreleased scenes and journal entries. 2, first printing.
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#MurderFunding
by Gretchen McNeil
A 17-year-old girl lands on a big-hit reality show, “Who Wants to Be a Painiac?” in the aftermath of her mother’s death and learns horrifying truths about her mother’s relationship with one of Alcatraz 2.0’s most popular serial killers. By the author of the Don’t Get Mad duology. 20,000 first printing.
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We hunt the flame
by Hafsah Faizal
Disguising herself as a man to hunt food for her people in the cursed and forbidden forest, a Hunter in a fantasy realm inspired by ancient Arabia is targeted by the Prince of Death, who would kill her for her disobedience to an autocratic king and claim the powerful artifact she seeks.
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Lovely war
by Julie Berry
Meeting in a World War II-era Manhattan hotel for a forbidden tryst, immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught by the latter's jealous husband before she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I. By the author of the Splurch Academy series.
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Wilder girls
by Rory Power
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island
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The memory thief
by Lauren Mansy
In this unforgettable journey through the city of Craewick—a city where memories are currency, citizens are divided by ability and “Gifted” individuals can take memories from others as they please— 17-year-old Etta Lark must prove her allegiance to the Shadows rebel group she quit following an accident years earlier in order to rescue her mother from a corrupt culture that would steal her memories and sell them to the highest bidder.
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EXCLUSIVE - LIVE Virtual Book Club Event with Author Alicia Jasinska
Tuesday, December 1, 4:00 pm
Online Library
EXCLUSIVE LIVE virtual Book Club event featuring the author of The Dark Tide, Alicia Jasinska. The LIVE Book Club event will take place on Tuesday, December 1st at 4 p.m. (PST). Link will be provided to anyone that registers the day before the event.
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Online Tutoring with HelpNow by Brainfuse!
HelpNow is a complete tutoring system consisting of live tutoring, collaboration, and study tools. Connect from the Library or on your mobile device with your Library Card to expert tutors for academic assistance. Spanish speaking tutors are also available. Online tutors are available 7 days a week from 1:00pm to 10:00pm Pacific Time, except on major holidays. Click here and log in with your Library Card number!
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We are not free
by Traci Chee
Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
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Lifting as we climb : black women's battle for the ballot box
by Evette Dionne
Explores the lesser-known efforts of such black suffrage activists as NAACP founder Mary Church Terrell, education advocate Anna Julia Cooper and journalist Ida B. Wells in helping African American women obtain the same rights as their white feminist counterparts.
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Every body looking
by Candice Iloh
A debut novel in verse follows the story of a mixed-heritage poet whose coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother’s descent into addiction and her father’s efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
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The Way Back
by Gavriel Savit
Sent by the Angel of Death into the Jewish Far Country’s land of the transient dead, two teens make pacts with ancient demons and declare war on Death himself to reclaim their lives, in a tale based on folk tradition by the author of Anna and the Swallow Man.
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Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death.
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