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A People's History of the United States

HOWARD ZINN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Historians may well view it as a step to a coherent new version of American history." - Eric Foner, New York Times Book ReviewWith an introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five-year history and demonstrates...
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I Am Jazz

Jessica Herthel - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere"This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain [Library Binding]
Format: Book

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou - ‎Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky - MTV Books
Format: Paperback

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting...
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A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story

Dave Eggers

"Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three, I was twenty-one, Toph was eight, and all of us were so tried already, from th
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher - Razorbill
Format: Paperback

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** "Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." - Chicago Tribune "A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." - The New York Times "Thirteen...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other...
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Drama

Raina Telgemeier - Graphix/Scholastic
Format: Paperback

From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing....
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other...
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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

As a young boy growing up in pre-Soviet Afghanistan, Amir befriends his servants son, Hassan. Occupying polar ends of Kabuls social hierarchy, the two boys nevertheless play together and defend each other against neighbourhood bullies. However, during Kabuls annual kite-fighting tournament...
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Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)

Gino, Alex
Format: electronic resource

BE WHO YOU ARE.

When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.

Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
Format: Hardcover

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch,...
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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police...
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And Tango Makes Three

Justin Richardson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

And Tango Makes Three is the bestselling, heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family.At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same....
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Looking For Alaska

John Green - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestsellerFirst...
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

E L James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREWhen literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants...
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A Separate Peace

John Knowles
Format: Hardcover

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World...
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Atonement: A Novel

IAN McEWAN - ‎Nan A. Talese; 1st ed. in the U.S.A edition
Format: Hardcover

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeepers son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Merriam-Webster - Merriam-Webster, Inc.; 11th edition
Format: Hardcover

Laminated hardcover, plain-edged style the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition is revised and updated, America's best-selling dictionary. It features more than 225,000 clear and precise definitions. More than 42,000 usage examples. Current copyright 2014.
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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Book

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays...
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The God of Small Things: A Novel

Arundhati Roy - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy's debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever...
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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In this book, Susie is 14 years old and she has died and gone to Heaven. In the weeks following her death she watches life continuing without her: her friends discussing her disappearance, her family holding out that she will be found, her killing trying to cover his tracks. It is story...
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The God of Small Things: A Novel

Arundhati Roy - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy's debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever...
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Wolf boys : the true story of american teenagers and mexicos most dangerous drug cartel

Dan Slater - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.What's it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? And how does a fifteen-year-old American boy go from...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Print book

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents....
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