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2) Gone fishing
Author
Series
Gone fishing volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this novel told through poems, nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad, so when his pesky little sister horns in on their fishing trip, he is none too pleased. Includes primer on rhyme, poetry techniques, rhythm, stanzas, and poetic forms.
3) Ghosting
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse describes how an alcohol-fueled prank gone wrong changes the lives of eight teenagers in a small Midwestern town.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A new girl at school throws nine-year-old Eleanor's relationship with her best friend Pearl into disarray.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.
10) A time to dance
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
11) Freakboy
Author
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.
13) Rhyme schemer
Author
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.
14) Wolfpack
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicision and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
15) Smoke
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
16) Blue birds
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"As tensions rise between the English settlers and the Native peoples on Roanoke Island, twelve-year-old Alis forms an impossible friendship with a native girl named Kimi"--
18) Call me Adnan
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.
19) Mirror to mirror
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Rajani LaRocca, recipient of a Newbery Honor and Walter Award for Red, White, and Whole, is back with an evocative novel in verse about identical twin sisters who do everything together-until external pressures threaten to break them apart.
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