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| Again Again by E. LockhartDog-walker and rising high school senior Adelaide isn’t sure what she wants. Should she try to rescue her failing grades? Should she let herself fall for poet Jack? Should she reconnect with her brother, a recovering addict? Each choice that Adelaide makes leads to a different parallel timeline, and you can follow her into each of them. Read this for smart book design, a poignant sibling relationship, and a thought-provoking take on the multiverse. |
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| Nowhere on Earth by Nick LakeAfter finding a lost little boy named Aidan, Emily Perez feels immediately motivated to help him get home and away from the shadowy agents pursuing him. That’s why she and Aidan stow away on a bush plane, and that’s why, when the plane crashes in the frozen wilderness, Emily refuses to give up. The twists and turns in this survival thriller will make you think while keeping your on the edge of your seat. |
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Girls Save the World in This One
by Ash Parsons
Looking forward to the panels, photo ops and celebrity appearances at the ZombieCon fan convention, June and her girl-power friends discover that real zombies have taken over the event, prompting a daring plan to save the world. By the award-winning author of Still Waters.
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Clique Bait
by Ann Valett
Bent on revenge when the popular kids at school all but ruin her best friend’s life, Chloe dons designer fashions and reinvents herself on social media to infiltrate a clique and expose their secrets. By the award-winning author of Awake.
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| Burn by Patrick NessFrome, Washington, 1957, where Russian blue dragon Kazimir has just been hired to work on Sarah Dewhurst’s family farm. Kazimir hopes to protect Sarah as it becomes clear that she might be the key to an apocalyptic prophecy; meanwhile, dragon-worshipping assassin Malcolm journeys toward Frome, intent on a world-shattering confrontation. |
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr walks an uneasy line, with one foot in her poor, mostly-black neighborhood and the other in her rich, mostly-white school. After Starr sees her friend Khalil gunned down by a white cop, however, that line is obliterated. Amid the uproar, Starr knows she should speak out, but the pressure she's under from all sides makes it difficult -- and dangerous -- to raise her voice.
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The White Boy Shuffle
by Paul Beatty
Beatty's partly autobiographical novel is a moving, deft satire on issues of race as well as a coming-of-age of a contemporary African American, Gunnar Kaufman, who is in no way typical. Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.
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Anger Is A Gift
by Mark Oshiro
Starring Moss Jeffries who's black, gay, prone to panic attacks, and completely fed up with how West Oakland High's so-called security policies result in violence toward innocent students. For fans of unflinching realistic fiction about diverse characters who organize and take action in the face of injustice.
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A Good Kind of Trouble
by Lisa Moore Ramée
Strictly following the rules to pursue her junior-high ambitions, 12-year-old Shayla is forced to choose between her education and her identity when her sister joins the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of a powerful protest.
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All American boys
by Jason Reynolds
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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