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81) Girls like me
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In the Florida projects, sixteen-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school, and bring him to the brink of suicide.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
A novel in prose and verse by the author of the National Book Award-longlisted Blood Water Paint follows the experiences of a teen who finds courage in the story of a 15th-century avenger when her sister's rapist is set free without prison time.
85) Displacement
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After tragedy strikes her family, Vera runs away to a small desert town where she tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.
86) Impulse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act-suicide. Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade. Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills. And Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his...
88) Rhyme schemer
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.
89) Birdie
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Still grieving for her father, twelve-year-old Birdie struggles to adjust to many changes, including when her grandmother, her mother, and her best friends all begin dating.
90) One
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered.
91) El crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"El fen�omeno del b�asquetbol, Josh Bell, y su hermano gemelo, Jordan, son los reyes de la cancha, con esos crossovers inesperados que hacen llorar a los jugadores m�as duros. Pero cuando Jordan conoce a la nueva chica del colegio, lazos entre los gemelos se empiezan a desanudar. El baloncesto y la hermandad se entrelazan para mostrarles a Josh y Jordan que la vida no viene con un manual de jugadas y que, a veces, el asunto no es ganar."--Amazon.
Fourteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
For most people, home is a place with four walls. It's a place to eat, sleep, rest, and live. For a refugee, the concept of home is ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-wavering. And often, it doesn't have any walls at all. Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with Dee Dee during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For a refugee, the trip is a long and perilous one,...
94) Orphaned
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Before humans, and before human history, there were the apes. Snub is a young gorilla, living in the heart of what will eventually be known as Africa. She is jealous of her mother's new baby . . . and restless in her need to explore. When a natural disaster shakes up her family, Snub finds herself as the guardian of her young sibling . . . and lost in a reshaped world. Snub may feel orphaned, but she is not alone. There are other creatures stalking...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Novels in Verse: Teen
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
Novels in Verse: Teen
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
Description
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.
97) Freakboy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Told from three viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Brendan, a wrestler, struggles to come to terms with his place on the transgender spectrum while Vanessa, the girl he loves, and Angel, a transgender acquaintance, try to help.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.
Author
Language
English
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
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Description
"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"--but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter in early 20th century Chicago; a hobo during the Great Depression; an office girl in 1950s Manhattan; the young man reveling in 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends as the AIDS pandemic hits; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box-an image of pure and simple...
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