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Moxie meets Mary H.K. Choi in this funny, whip-smart YA debut about love, resistance, and the enduring friendships that make it all worthwhile.
Seventeen-year-old Olivia Chang is at her fourth school in seven years. Her self-imposed solitude is lonely but safe. At Plainstown High, however, Olivia's usual plan of anonymity fails when infamous it-girl Mitzi Clarke makes a pointed racist comment in class. Tired of ignoring things just to survive, Olivia...
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Pretty little liars volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
44) Terminate
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Josie's friend Amanda is missing. But because she's a runaway with a history of drug use and other risky behavior, no one seems to care. Clem, the owner of the community kitchen in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside where Josie works in exchange for food, advises her to just leave well enough alone. Then a young man whose friend is also missing asks her for help. Josie learns that she, along with the other teens who helped her bring down the cop responsible...
45) Gearhead
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Cap central volume 4
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Themes: Poverty, Ambition, Motivation, Ethics, Crime, Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Capital Central High School students Marley and Hector want a better life beyond their northeast D.C. neighborhood. So they study hard, taking...
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Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, as the author of classics from Great Expectations to A Christmas Carol. But during his young life, Dickens witnessed terrible things that stayed with him: families starving in doorways, babies being "dropped" on streets by mothers too poor to care for them, and a stunning lack of compassion from the upper class. After his family went into debt and he found himself working...
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To save her family's hope of citizenship, Artemisia steps into the lair of powerful, vindictive deceivers. HAVING EVERYTHING is a story of life in a migrant camp and the importance of joyful moments. Racial tension and greed embolden a powerful family to act with malice when Artemisia tries to right past wrongs against her father. Inspired by true events, this gripping story of joy and tragedy lays bare the vulnerability of illegal immigrants in America....
48) Cirque
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A Chance Encounter of a Lifetime...
Suicidal thoughts. Physical abuse. Self-Harm. Trapped feelings. Five teenagers, Drew, Zoe, Jordan, Lilly, and Michael, all strangers, wake up in a circus tent. After meeting the whimsical ringleader, R.L, each receives a tattoo symbolizing the circus act of their gift to master. Come along on this mystical journey to see how their lives will never be the same with a cloud of glittery red smoke, a bright smile, and...
49) Sideliners
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Divided by Circumstance. United by Football.
Two types of folks live in Pottsville, Texas. Those who have two jobs and those who have two houses. But no matter their address, Friday night football brings every soul in town together under the same stadium lights. Problem is, the have-nots always watch from the sidelines. Until now ...
Four years ago, Reed Maddox made a deathbed promise to his mother before the cancer claimed her life: Take...
50) Sparks of Light
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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A time-traveling teenager must race from 21st century Scotland to Gilded Age New York in book two of this YA sci-fi fantasy series.
When American teenager Hope Walton first came to the Scottish Highlands, she got more than she bargained for-new friends, a (maybe) boyfriend, and a quick excursion to the 12th century. Hope is part of a long line of time-traveling ancestors known as the Viators. But while the Viators make sure not to disturb the natural...
51) Innocent Blood
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Life has been tough since Rosa Vieja's dad went missing. On top of the rumors that her dad walked out, the sophomore is haunted by a strange voice coming from the mist. The voice becomes more persistent after a classmate-the football team's wide receiver and Rosa's not-so-secret crush-disappears. She finds herself drawn toward the mysterious voice. Does the voice have anything to do with the nearby sinkholes? What does it mean when it says "innocent...
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In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute-and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger richer people don't ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house getting...
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Finalist, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Novel-in-Progress ContestWhen blue collar workers confront a factory owner for stealing soup at a neighborhood meeting, millionaires start a war against the community's budding campaign for worker's rights. Teenaged Friends Paul Mäkinen, son of a truck mechanic, and Karen Ahlberg, daughter of a railroad engineer, have just begun leading the Shingle Creek Park Teen Council and its programs for kids. ...
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From the author of Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets and They're Watching You, a compelling new thriller!
Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington.
This summer, they'll search for the truth.
Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy days sunning at the waterfalls and nights partying at the sprawling houses of the rich families who vacation there. The Covingtons are one of these families, and beautiful,...
55) Be True to Me
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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A riveting tale of romantic suspense with a shocking twist ending set within the gates of a Fire Island colony of the super rich.
Jean, a privileged, sometimes cruel, often insecure, and always envious girl, is accustomed to living in her glamorous older sister's shadow. So when Gil Burke, a handsome newcomer with uncertain ties to one of the most powerful families in the exclusive enclave of Sunken Haven, notices Jean, she is smitten. Then Fritz,...
56) Rules of Summer
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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There are two sides to every summer.
When seventeen-year-old Rory McShane steps off the train in East Hampton, it's as if she's entered another universe, one populated by impossibly beautiful people wearing pressed khakis and driving expensive cars. She's signed on to be a summer errand girl for the Rules -- a wealthy family with an enormous beachfront mansion. Upon arrival, she's warned by other staff members to avoid socializing with the family,...
57) The Name Drop
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New from the author of Seoulmates comes a story of mistaken identities, the summer of a lifetime, and a love to risk everything for.
When Elijah Ri arrives in New York City for an internship at his father's massive tech company, Haneul Corporation, he expects the royal treatment that comes with being the future CEO-even if that's the last thing he wants. But instead, he finds himself shuffled into a group of overworked, unpaid interns, all sharing...
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Thousandth floor volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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"A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible--if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something and everyone has something to lose." -- From dustjacket.
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Yvon et P'tit Louis, que tout semble opposer, se retrouvent au coeur d'une mystérieuse affaire.
Yvon et P'tit Louis n'ont pas la même vision du monde. Le père d'Yvon est paysan – ou plus exactement exploitant agricole : c'est un chef d'entreprise fier de sa terre, de ses gros tracteurs, de ses beaux fusils de chasse… et de sa grange pleine de produits phytosanitaires. Le père de P'tit Louis, lui, est ouvrier à l'usine du coin et travaille...
60) b, Book, and Me
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Best friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it's painfully obvious they don't. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in baseball hats, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells the whole class about b's dying sister and how her family is poor, and each of them finds herself desperately...
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