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1) Dreamland
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
2) Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Runaway Allison strikes up a strange kind of relationship with Marla, a lonely and increasingly confused elderly woman. A verse novel exploring abuse, identity, mental health and friendship.
Author
Series
Murder Complex series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate, fifteen-year-old Meadow, trained by her father to kill and survive in any situation, falls in love with Zephyr, a government assassin.
8) Boy21
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
9) Vinyl moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she wanders the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe she's finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Sammy Santos pasa el verano descubriéndose a través de los ojos de Juliana, una chica hermosa, independiente y sumamente vulnerable que lo hará conocer el lado más dulce y más oscuro de la vida. Empezarán su último año de preparatoria en Hollywood--un barrio chicano perdido en una ciudad en el desierto--y el mundo como lo conocen está por cambiar: la gente se manifiesta en las calles, los adolescentes se enlistan en el ejército y aunque...
14) Mary underwater
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles.
15) Count me in
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
16) The outsiders
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
17) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the Sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is--he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding.
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