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2) Chirp
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.--
Author
Series
Saints and misfits novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she’s been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King’s army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom’s famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe—but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King’s...
Author
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
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Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
"Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"--...
7) Panic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Managing the challenges of his fractured family by taking Adderall, sneaking drinks, and confiding in an abusive priest, Aidan finds support from new friends including a crush, a wild girl, and a swim-team captain with his own secrets.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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Description
A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
12) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
13) Stained
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl bullied for her port-wine stain must summon her personal strength to survive abduction and horrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer.
15) Among the fallen
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England, sixteen-year-old Orpha, imprisoned for crimes she did not commit, is released upon accepting the invitation of Charles Dickens for a fresh start at a home for fallen women.
16) Break the fall
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A year after being nearly paralyzed, Audrey Lee is going to the Olympics but the United States' gymnastics team is on the verge of collapse and Leo, her new coach's cute son, is another distraction.--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old pranking mastermind Doe Saltpeter abandons her plans to win a rivalry with the neighboring boys' school and instead joins forces with her enemies to protect a younger student from a teacher's inappropriate behavior.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Dec 2023 - Mysteries
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [High School]
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Dec 2023 - Mysteries
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [High School]
Description
"All sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis wants is everything, but the poverty and hardship that defines her life has kept her from the beautiful and special things she knows she deserves. When she stumbles upon the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James, Georgia teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora, to find the killer before he strikes again, and their investigation throws Georgia into a glittering world of unimaginable privilege and wealth--and...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
20) Ever since
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Seventeen-year-old Virginia makes bad choices. In fact, she's That Kind of Girl, according to the whispers. But as long as she has her tight group of best friends by her side, she's able to ignore the gossipers. Until she finds herself spending time with Rumi, Poppy's boyfriend. Breaking with tradition, she doesn't hook up with Rumi. Worse, she falls in love with him. While Virginia and Rumi's relationship grows in secret, she discovers that his...
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