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Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant YA Readers
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Tomboy : A Graphic Memoir
by Liz Prince
Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir. By the award-winning author of Will You Love Me If I Wet the Bed? Original. 15,000 first printing.
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Famous last words
by Katie Alender
Doubting her sanity in the wake of terrifying visions of a body in her pool, messages on her walls and someone else's reflection in the mirror, Willa begins to suspect that her experiences may be related to the work of a serial killer at large in Los Angeles. By the author of the Bad Girls Don't Die series. Simultaneous eBook.
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The crossover
by Kwame Alexander
A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health. 20,000 first printing.
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I am Pusheen the cat
by Claire Belton
Presents humorous cartoons that star Pusheen, a pleasantly plump cat who offers advice on such subjects as being fancy, baking cookies, sleeping, and living with a younger sibling
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Gabi, a girl in pieces
by Isabel Quintero
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity
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Juvie
by Steve Watkins
Working hard to be a contributing member of her family, Sadie accepts blame for her sister's drug deal to keep the latter out of prison and finds everything she worked for, from her educational prospects and star position on the basketball team to her relationship with her boyfriend, threatened by a six-month sentence that tests her irresponsible sister's character.
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Ms. Marvel : no normal
by G. Willow Wilson
Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl from Jersey City who lives a conservative Muslim lifestyle with her family, suddenly acquires superhuman powers and, despite the pressures of school and home, tries to use her abilities to help her community
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