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[2023]
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English
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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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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant middle grade journey to self-acceptance told through prose, verse, and illustration. Will is the only round kid in a school full of string beans. So he hidesin baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch. But shame isn't the only feeling that dominates Will's life. He's also got a crush on a girl named Jules who knows he doesn't...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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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...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Immediately takes one's breath away with its poetry and powerDeeply affecting. An ideal tool to illustrate poetic elements or emphasize stories of sharing scary yet necessary truths."-School Library Journal, starred review A young teen's secret is tearing him apart. He knows he is gay but is afraid to share this knowledge with his parents or his friends. What if they reject him? And what can he do with the feelings he has for his childhood friend...
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2022.
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English
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The blood Feeds the hunger That threatens everything. It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose. Immy has been in love before many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia smells like paint and peppermint tea. She wears her hair in a plait, and has a green thumb, and Immy is utterly besotted. Claudia has never been in love like this either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire. But a love like...
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2023.
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English
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"Beautiful in its honesty and vulnerability, this is a powerful story about dreams and bodily agency that sings from the heart. Natalia Sylvester, award-winning author of Breathe and Count Back From Ten A powerful and expertly told novel-in-verse by about a 12-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis by an award-winning poet. Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi...
10) Call me Adnan
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bartholomew Biddle's life has always been pretty ordinary, but when a huge wind blows past his window one night, he feels the call of adventure, grabs his bedsheet and starts flying. Soon he's soaring far above his little town, heading wherever the wind takes him. But will he be able to find his way home again?
13) Solo
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Solo, a YA novel written in poetic verse, tells the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, who is being crushed between the scathing tabloids exposing his former rock star father's addictions and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
15) Warrior girl
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about the joys and struggles of a Chicana girl who is a warrior for her name, her history, and her right to choose what she celebrates in life"--
16) Rain rising
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
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Series
Kids under the stairs volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Jordan does not make the cut for the dance show Fierce Across America, he pairs up with schoolmate Casey, leader of the dance team, who believes her dance skills and Jordan's choreography will make them an unbeatable team.
20) Hate that cat
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.
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