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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sena thinks he is helping his poverty-stricken family when a man calling himself Jack of Diamonds promises him a job and a better life, but he ends up in the clutches of human traffickers and must use all his resolve to escape and survive.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious boy saves her dog's life and then disappears, Nadia decides to take a page from her comic books and investigate until she can discover his identity. The truth of the Invisible Boy, however, is complicated, and frightening, and she'll need a friend who knows what it's like to be truly brave.
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In The Skin I'm In, readers saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Charlese Jones, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully. Turned out of the only home she has known, Char...
5) Sold
Author
Language
English
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Recently Banned and Challenged in Virginia Schools
Recently Banned and Challenged in Virginia Schools part 2
Recently Banned and Challenged in Virginia Schools part 2
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nothing ever happens on Kasia's street. And Kasia would know, because her chronic illness keeps her stuck at home, watching the outside world from her bedroom window. So when she witnesses what looks like a kidnapping, she's not sure whether she can believe her own eyes... There had been a girl in the window across the street who must have seen something too. But when Kasia ventures out to find her, she is told the most shocking thing of all: There...
7) Threads
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
8) The fall
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive. Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning ...CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies, and Raya jumps at the chance...
11) M�eo and B�e
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old B�e hasn't spoken a word since her mother left. She hangs on to the hope that one day they will be reunited, but after two years of waiting, it's becoming more difficult. Her father--who is now frail and helpless after a stroke--can do little to protect her from her stepmother, Big Mother, who treats B�e like an animal and a servant. Thankfully, B�e has a secret friend, her little kitten M�eo, to comfort her in the worst of...
12) Nine days
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tenth-graders Ethan and Ti-Anna go to Hong Kong seeking her father, an exiled Chinese democracy activist who has disappeared, and follow his trail to Vietnam and back, also uncovering illegal activity along the way. Includes author's note and the history behind the novel written by the girl who inspired it.
13) Ferocious
Author
Series
Vicarious duology volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Winter Kim finds out that her sister is dead and that she has a brother she never knew about, only two things matter-finding what's left of her family and killing the man who destroyed her life. Her mission leads her from St. Louis to Los Angeles back to South Korea, where she grew up. Things get increasingly dangerous once Winter arrives in Seoul. Aided by her friends Jesse and Sebastian, Winter attempts to infiltrate an international corporation...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Mysteries [High School Readers]
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Dec 2023 - Mysteries
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Dec 2023 - Mysteries
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"Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett is now moving on from the past and starting her summer job at Adventure Time amusement park. When a girl goes missing from the park, it's clear that the past is not done with Scarlett"--
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