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1) African Town
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2022] | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm | English |
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings...
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[2021] | First edition. | Make Me a World | 324 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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Alma's life is a series of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and she's halfway through becoming a woman. But as long as she can listen to her Walkman, hang out with her friends on the stoops of the Village, and ride her bike around the streets of New York, it feels like everything will be all right. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by...
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[2021] | Andrews McMeel Publishing | 564 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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"This novel in verse captures one young woman's struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit"--Back cover.
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[2020] | Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 417 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Nonfiction 1 available YF ACEVE |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Quill Tree Books | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
5) High
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2021. | Fitzroy Books | 217 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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Following in the steps of her hero, Lionel Messi, Ceti is a shooting star on the field. A U.S. scout is coming to watch her play in the State Championship; she has Ruby, her best friend since kindergarten rooting for her, and a crush on a boy who lives in her building, Will. But her Mom, who used to be beautiful with her long honey hair and green eyes is now wasted and track-marked. And pregnant. Ceti’s life goes up and down with a mother who wants...
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[2021] | First edition. | Make Me A World | 215 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF ELHIL |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021 | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers | 442 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Teen Fiction 1 available YF KAUR |
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Kiran flees her home in Punjab for a fresh start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant. But overstaying her visa and living undocumented brings its own perils for both her and her daughter, Sahaara. Sahaara would do anything to protect her mother. When she learns the truth about Kiran’s past, she feels compelled to seek justice—even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man. --from Amazon.
"In a world that intentionally...
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[2022] | First edition. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 478 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF HAYDU |
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While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
Lately Mimi's mother has been acting more withdrawn than usual, leaving her to navigate the tricky world of turning sixteen alone. Her mother advises Mimi to start journaling, like all the woman in her...
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Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction 1 available
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Shirlington - Teen Fiction 1 available
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | First edition. | Atheneum | 306 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction 1 available YF REYNO Shirlington - Teen Fiction 1 available YF REYNO |
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer. A tool for RULE ... Or, you can call it a gun. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That's where Will's now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother's gun. He gets...
10) Me (Moth)
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2021. | First edition. | Feiwel and Friends | 248 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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2022. | First edition. | Farrar Straus Giroux | 327 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF GOW |
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Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.
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[2022] | First edition. | Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 410 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF WILSO |
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On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
13) Muted
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2021. | First edition. | Scholastic Press | 383 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF CHARL |
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"For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean Mercury Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the...
14) Not hungry
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2020. | First edition. | West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing | 192 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF QUINN |
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2019 | OverDrive | Enslow Publishing, LLC | English | Available Online
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June is fat. June also has an eating disorder, but no one sees. When she doesn't eat, her friends and family think they see a fat girl on a diet, not someone starving herself. When June's secret is found out by Toby, the new boy next door, she is panicked. Then she learns he also has a secret. Everyone has their own little lies. -- from Amazon.
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[2022] | First edition. | Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 277 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Glencarlyn - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF WOODF |
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A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually destructive partners in crime.
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[2022] | First edition. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 195 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Cherrydale - Recently Returned 1 available YF ENGLE |
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In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
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[2021] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 177 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Teen New Science Fiction 1 available Y/SF ELLIO |
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"When Robyn and his brothers are turned into ravens through the work of a curse, their younger sister is their only hope for them to become human again. Though she's never met them, April is determined to restore her brothers' humanity. But what will become of Robyn, who has discovered a much greater affinity to the air than to the earth-bound lives of his family?"--Dust jacket.
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2022. | First edition. | West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing | 187, 4 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF RUSSE |
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Sometimes in high school, all you want is to be invisible. Being invisible might be the biggest problem of all for Natalie. She has a disability that causes chaos to her body on the inside but leaves her unmarked on the outside. She's learned to hide her pain so well that you would never guess she's not the same Natalie as she was before she got sick. But after having surgery, Natalie must return to school in a wheelchair. Now, Natalie has to decide...
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[2021] | First edition. | Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc | 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English |
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In Cuidad Juárez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in the 1990's. Fear is overtaking the city as cases of kidnapped girls and women become alarmingly common. Anamaría works hard at her strict, grade-obsessed middle school, wanting to do the best she can so she can grow up to be...
20) When we make it
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©2021. | Dial Books for Young Readers | 375 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen New Fiction 1 available YF VELAS |
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Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.