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1) Speak
Author
Language
English
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Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
2) Wringer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
5) Swagger
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
10) Fourmile
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
11) Dreamland
Author
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.
12) Briarcliff Prep
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Avi LeBeau juggles navigating her first year at a Historically Black Boarding School with the revelation that her older sister Belle is in an abusive romantic relationship"--
13) The sky is mine
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Izzy feels invisible. Trapped under the weight of expectation and censored by shame.Her mum Steph and best friend Grace have always been there to save her. But with one under the control of her stepfather and the other caught in the throes of new love, Izzy is falling between the cracks.As threats to her safety grow, Izzy wants to scream. But first she must find her voice.And if the sky is the limit, then the sky is hers.[This book contains material...
14) Vinyl moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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"--
15) Boy21
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
20) Chirp
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Language
English
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Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
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