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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Martin Ganda - Little
Format: Print book
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"The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from"" Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. " It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive... |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah - Sarah Crichton Books; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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This is how wars are fought now by children hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-s Children have become soldiers of choice In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide it is estimated that there are some child soldiers Ishmael Beah used to be one of them What is war like through the eyes... |
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Soldier Boy
Keely Hutton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops... |
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Child of Dandelions
Shenaaz Nanji - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Hardcover
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A breathtaking account of one girl's determination to triumph over a devastating historical event. In Uganda in 1972, President Idi Amin, also known as the Last King of Scotland, announces that foreign Indians must be "weeded" out of Uganda in ninety days. Fifteen-year-old... |
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The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Amira, look at me," Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers."The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come-- run."Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities.... |
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When Morning Comes
Arushi Raina - Tradewind Books
Format: Library Binding
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Zanele is skipping school and secretly plotting against the apartheid government. The police cant know. Her mother and sister cant know.Her best friend Thabo, schoolboy turned gang member, can tell shes up to something. But he has troubles of his own--a deal gone wrong and some powerful... |
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The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean - HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now—which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter. Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed... |
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Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah - Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover
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When sixteen-year-old Amal decides to wear the hijab full-time her entire world changes all because of a piece of clothSixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction Her parents her teachers her friends people on the street But she stands... |
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Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez
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Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her To Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government's secret police terrorize her remaining fa |
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Untwine: A Novel
Edwidge Danticat - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A genuinely moving exploration of the pain of separation" from the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review) .. NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work. 2015 VOYA Magazine Perfect Ten. CCBC Choices List Selection.... |
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The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with... |
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The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media - the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father... |
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Up From the Sea
Leza Lowitz - Crown
Format: Print book
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A powerful novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village. On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about. When he's offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11,... |
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The Fold
An Na - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Joyce never used to care that much about how she looked, but that was before she met JFK—John Ford Kang, the most gorgeous guy in school. And it doesn’t help that she’s constantly being compared to her beautiful older sister, Helen. Then her rich plastic-surgery-addict aunt... |
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A Step from Heaven
Na An
Format: Book
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When she is five, Young Ju Park and her family move from Korea to California. During the flight, they climb so far into the sky she concludes they are on their way to Heaven, that Heaven must be in America. Heaven is also where her grandfather is. When she learns the distinction, |
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Iqbal: A Novel
Francesco D'Adamo - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"You see, for Iqbal I was not invisible. I existed, and he made me free." For Fatima and the other unseen children of Hussain Khan's carpet factory, Iqbal Masih's arrival is the end of hope and its beginning. It is Iqbal who tells them that their family's debt will... |
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Born Confused
Tanuja Desai Hidier
Format: Print book
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Cross-cultural comedy about finding your place in America . . . and finding your heart wherever, from an amazing new young author.Dimple doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent years rebelling against their customs. Now everything from India is suddenly... |
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand - Delacorte
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, which is also a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, has now been adapted by the author for young adults. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this riveting biography includes more than 100 black-and-white photos, as well as exclusive content,... |
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Karma
Cathy Ostlere - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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It is 1984, and fifteen-year-old Maya is on her way to India with her father. She carries with her the ashes of her mother, who has recently committed suicide, and arrives in Delhi on the eve of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination - one of the bloodiest riots in the country's... |
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Written in the Stars
Aisha Saeed - Speak
Format: Print book
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A heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love'A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you've read before. Saeed has given a novel that is both entertaining and important." - Matt de la Pea, New York Times bestselling author Naila's conservative immigrant parents have always... |
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Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan - Harpercollins Childrens Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Leaving Home...forever. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. When she discovers that the husband her parents have chosen for her is sickly boy with wicked parents, Koly wishes she could flee. According to tradition, though, she has no choice. On her wedding... |
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Format: Paperback
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Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful |
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Climbing the Stairs
Padma Venkatraman - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Book
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During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police, she is forced to live with her grandfather's large traditional family, where the women... |
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A Time to Dance
Padma Venkatraman - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Padma Venkatraman's inspiring story of a young girl's struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power... |
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Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan - Harpercollins Childrens Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Leaving Home...forever. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. When she discovers that the husband her parents have chosen for her is sickly boy with wicked parents, Koly wishes she could flee. According to tradition, though, she has no choice. On her wedding... |
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced... |
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
John Boyne - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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From the author of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "comes another extraordinary story of World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household.... |
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The Wicked and the Just
J. Anderson Coats - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Cecily's father has ruined her life. He's moving them to occupied Wales, where theking needs good strong Englishmen to keep down the vicious Welshmen. At leastCecily will finally be the lady of the house.Gwenhwyfar knows all about that house. Once she dreamed of being the lady thereherself,... |
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Annexed
Sharon Dogar - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peters point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding... |
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Revolution
Jennifer Donnelly - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Readers of If I Stay and Elizabeth George will love Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, author of the award-winning novel A Northern Light. Revolution artfully weaves two girls' stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love; it spans centuries... |
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The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner - Dial
Format: Hardcover
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Clever and head-turningly attractive, fourteen-yearold Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy. It's the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. On the night when... |
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The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel
Colleen Gleason - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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"The mishmash of popular tropes (steampunk! vampires! Sherlock Holmes!) will bring readers in, but it's the friendship between the two girls that will keep them."--Kirkus ReviewsEvaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're... |
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Once
Morris Gleitzman - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover
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Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salvage their bookselling business. And when he thinks his parents... |
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
Alan Gratz
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Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage.World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth. But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are sp |
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Refugee
ALAN GRATZ - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,... |
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Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse - Little
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery... |
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, alo |
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The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific... |
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Almost Autumn
Marianne Kaurin - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Print book
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It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember.But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse... |
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's... |
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Making Bombs for Hitler
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she?But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis... |
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Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein - Hyperion
Format: Print book
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Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand... |
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Briar Rose
Jane Yolen - Tor
Format: Paperback
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A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is "heartbreaking and heartwarming."An American Library Association "100 Best Books for Teens"An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults"Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel... |
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Anastasia and Her Sisters
Carolyn Meyer - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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There's a heavy price to pay for royalty in this compelling - and true - story of Anastasia Romanov and fellow grand duchesses of Russia, from an award-winning novelist.It's summer in 1914 and the Romanovs are aboard the Standart, the Russian royal yacht. Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa... |
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington PostLina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home,... |
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The Crown's Game
Evelyn Skye - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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"Gorgeous and richly imagined." - Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series"Teeming with hidden magic and fiery romance." - Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the AshesPerfect for fans of Shadow and Bone... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie - Little
Format: Hardcover
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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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Saints and Misfits
S K ALI - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life ... starring a Muslim teen.There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least,... |
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Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There's... |
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Tell Us We're Home
Marina Budhos - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frappés and complaining about the other kids. But there’s... |
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand - Delacorte
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, which is also a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, has now been adapted by the author for young adults. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this riveting biography includes more than 100 black-and-white photos, as well as exclusive content,... |
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Joseph Bruchac - Dial; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they... |
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Something in Between
Melissa de la Cruz - Harlequin Teen
Format: Print book
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Be the first to read the thought-provoking new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Isle of the Lost and Return to the Isle of the Lost. She had her whole life planned.She knew who she was and where she was going. Until the truth... |
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's... |
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The Misfits
James Howe - Aladdin Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit. |
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Youre Welcome, Universe
Whitney Gardner - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti.Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award! When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf,... |
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March: Book One
John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from... |
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When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2017 A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of 2017 A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017 A PopSugar Best Young Adult Novel... |
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback
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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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Saturdays with Hitchcock
Ellen Wittlinger - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old movie-loving Maisie is in need of a distraction from her current romantic dilemma when her Uncle Walt comes to stay with her family after being hurt on the set of the movie he's filming in Hollywood.Maisie's best friend, Cyrus, has been hanging out a lot with Gary... |
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