Educated : a memoir
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Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond
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The poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
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M. T. Anderson
Subverting convention, award-winning creators M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms.
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Sunny
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Jason Reynolds
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
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Sadie
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Courtney Summers
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie, who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance
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Quidditch through the ages
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Kennilworthy Whisp
The most checked-out book in the Hogwarts Library, and a volume no Quidditch player or Harry Potter fan should be without, this invaluable volume provides information about the origin of the Golden Snitch, how the Bludgers came into existence, why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes and other fun-facts about the thrilling, heart-stopping game played at Hogwarts.
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Lu : Sometimes You Gotta Jump Anyway
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Jason Reynolds
Quintessential pretty boy athlete Lu swaggers his way into popularity and must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines and avoid illegal activities in order to make meaningful connections with others. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Ghost.
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Akata Witch
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Nnedi Okorafor
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
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