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New YA Releases July 12, 2024
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Sunrise Nights
by Jeff Zentner
When aspiring photographer Jude and former dancer Florence, who has a degenerative eye disease, meet at their sleepaway camp's closing celebration, called Sunrise Night, they decide to take a chance with one rule, they can't contact each other after the sun has risen.
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Four Eids and a Funeral
by Faridah áAbâikâe-âIyâimâidâe
Returning home early for a funeral and for the summer, Said Hossain finds it hard to avoid facing his ex-best friend, Tiwa Olatunji, who pretends he doesn't exist, until they are brought together to save their Islamic center from demolition. Illustrations.
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Break to You
by Neal Shusterman
This fast-paced, highly compelling story exposes what life is like in a juvenile detention center and reveals the hearts of two teens, Adriana and Jon, who are forced to live in desperate circumstances.
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Two Sides to Every Murder
by Danielle Valentine
Born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders, 17-year-old Olivia wants answers about her bloodline, while Reagan seeks to clear her mother's name in the long-ago massacre, but when the camp reopens, both girls realize someone will commit murder to keep the past hidden.
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Shift Happens : the History of Labor in the United States
by J. Albert Mann
This eye-opening and engaging history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor and more documents how the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.
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With Love, Miss Americanah
by Jane Igharo
Moving from Nigeria to America after her father's death, 17-year-old Enore wants to be extremely prepared before attending American high school and comes up with a set of rules of survival gathered from teen movies but is tempted to break them when she meets Davi Santiago.
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Ready or Not
by Andi Porretta
Before everyone but her scatters across the globe for college, Cassie convinces her three best friends to spend August playing the game of dares and risks they invented as kids, making for an adventurous, outrageous and unforgettable summer?—?one she hopes will help them stay friends forever. Illustrations.
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