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2 | A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea | Fleming, Melissa | Biography--This is the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her country’s brutal civil war. She and her family escape to Egypt, but life soon quickly becomes dangerous for Syrians in that country. Doaa and her fiancé decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after setting sail on a smuggler’s dilapidated fishing vessel along with five hundred other refugees, their boat is struck and begins to sink. | 2 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | A Monster Calls | Ness, Patrick | Realistic Fantasy--The monster in Conor’s backyard is not the one he’s been expecting — the one from the nightmare he’s had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. | 1 | BN | A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Mafi, Tahereh | Young Adult Fiction--It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a 16-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | A Step From Heaven | Na, An | Realistic Fiction--A novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years. | 1 | CM | All American Boys | Reynolds, Jason; Keily, Brendan | Realistic Fiction--With Reynolds writing Rashad’s first-person narrative and Kiely Quinn’s, this hard-edged, ripped-from-the-headlines book is more than a problem novel; it’s a carefully plotted, psychologically acute, character-driven work of fiction that dramatizes an all-too-frequent occurrence. Police brutality and race relations in America are issues that demand debate and discussion, which his superb book powerfully enables. | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Mafi, Tahereh | Young Adult Fiction--It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a 16-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. | 2 | 1 | BN | Crossover Series (Rebound, Booked) | Alexander, Kwame | Realistic Fiction--Thanks to their dad, Josh and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood—he's got mad beats, too, which help him find his rhythm when it’s all on the line. | 5 | 50 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | All American Boys | Reynolds, Jason; Keily, Brendan | Realistic Fiction--With Reynolds writing Rashad’s first-person narrative and Kiely Quinn’s, this hard-edged, ripped-from-the-headlines book is more than a problem novel; it’s a carefully plotted, psychologically acute, character-driven work of fiction that dramatizes an all-too-frequent occurrence. Police brutality and race relations in America are issues that demand debate and discussion, which his superb book powerfully enables. | 1 | 5 | BN | Dear Martin | Stone, Nic | Young Adult Fiction--Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | All Fall Down | Carter, Ally | Action & Adventure--Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things: she is not crazy, her mother was murdered, and someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay. As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her -- so there's no one she can completely trust. Not even her grandfather, a powerful ambassador. | 5 | BN | Dear Sweet Pea | Murphy, Julie | Realistic Fiction--Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco wasn’t sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the “brilliant” idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | Anything but Typical | Baskin, Nora Raleigh | Realistic Fiction--Jason can be himself when he writes and he thinks that PhoneixBird-her name is Rebecca-could be his first real friend. But as desperate as Jason is to met her, he's terrified that if they do meet, Rebecca wil only see his autism and not who Jason really is. | 7 | BN | Game Changer | Greenwald, Tommy | Realistic Fiction--Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma, fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery—and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this the inevitable result of playing a violent sport, or did something more sinister happen on the field that day? | 5 | 22 | |||||||||||||||||
9 | Between Shades of Gray | Sepetys, Ruta | Historical Fiction--Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life - until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. | 4 | BN | How Dare the Sun Rise | Uwiringiyimana, Sandra | Biography--Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn't pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped. | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | Boost | Mackel, Kathy | Sports Fiction--Thirteen-year-old Savvy is six two and full of raw basketball talent; her three-point shot is deadly. But she's also skinny and gets pushed around on the court. Her older sister, Callie, is a freshman on varsity cheerleading, but she's not quite light enough to be a flier - her coveted position. Both girls need to boost their level of competition to get off the bench and into the action. | 26 | BN | How Dare the Sun Rise | Uwiringiyimana, Sandra | Biography--Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn't pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped. | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Butter | Lange, Erin | Young Adult Fiction--A lonely obese boy everyone calls "Butter" is about to make history. He is going to eat himself to death-live on the Internet-and everyone is invited to watch. | 2 | BN | I am Princess X | Priest, Cherie | Msytery--May and Libby created Princess X on the day they met in fifth grade. That was before Libby and her mother died in a car crash. Now May is 16 and looking at another long, lonely summer in Seattle when she spots a Princess X sticker on the corner of a store window. | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | Cinder | Meyer, Marissa | Syfy/Fairy Tale--Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future | 8 | BN | Girl, Stolen | Henry, April | Mystery--Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills Cheyenne’s prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what’s happening, their car is being stolen. | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | Code of Silence | Shoemaker, Tim | Mystery--When 13 year olds Cooper, Hiro, and Gordy witness a robbery that leaves a man in a coma, they find themselves tangled in a web of mystery and deceit that threatens their lives. | 7 | Internment | Ahmed, Samira | Young Adult Fiction--Dystopian--Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | Crossover Series (Rebound, Booked) | Alexander, Kwame | Realistic Fiction--Thanks to their dad, Josh and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood—he's got mad beats, too, which help him find his rhythm when it’s all on the line. | 5 | 50 | CM | Lost in the River of Grass | Rorby, Ginny | Action & Adventure--What began as a boring and miserable experience for the new girl in school, Sarah Emerson, quickly becomes a fight for survival when she sneaks away for an unauthorized excursion with Andy, a boy she just met. Sarah finds herself stranded with Andy in the marshes of Florida. | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
15 | Dear Martin | Stone, Nic | Young Adult Fiction--Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. | 1 | BN | Need | Charbonneau, Joelle | Mystery--Teenagers in a small Wisonsin town are drawn into a new social networking site that promises to grant their every need in exchange for a minor task. However, when Kaylee Dunham requests a kidney for her brother, she has no idea the price that must be paid. The site's demands are growing and people are dying. Kaylee races to uncover the creator of the NEED network before it's too late. | 4 | 50 | |||||||||||||||||
16 | Dear Sweet Pea | Murphy, Julie | Realistic Fiction--Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco wasn’t sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the “brilliant” idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. | 1 | BN | On the Come Up | Thomas, Angie | Young Adult Fiction--Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill. | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
17 | Eragon | Paolini, Christopher | Fantasy--Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now, his choices could save - or destroy - the empire. | 14 | BN | One of Us is Lying | McManus, Karen M. | Young Adult Fiction/Mystery--"Pretty Little Liars" meets "The Breakfast Club” in this “flat-out addictive” story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. | 8 | 30 | |||||||||||||||||
18 | Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Munoz | Realistic Fiction--Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. | 3 | BN | Other Words for Home | Warga, Jasmine | Novel in Verse--Realistic Fiction--Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
19 | Five Feet Apart | Lippincott, Rachael | Romance--Realistic Fiction--Stella Grant and Will Newman both have cystic fibrosis. Stella has to stay away from anything and anyone that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibilty of a lung transplant. Will has an antiobiotic-resistant bacteria and just wants to go out and see the world instead of the inside of hospitals. To be safe, they need to stay six feet away from each other, but as Stella and Will start to fall in love, safety measures begin to feel like a punishment and they reexamine the risks they're willing to take to live. | 4 | 20--audio 20--ebook | Solo | Alexander, Kwame | Novel in Verse--Realistic Fiction--Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs. | 4 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
20 | Full Cicada Moon | Hilton, Marilyn | Historical Fiction--It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon. But for half-black, half-Japanese Mimi, moving to a predominantly white Vermont town is enough to make her feel alien. Suddenly, Mimi's appearance is all anyone notices. | 6 | 50 | BN | Projekt 1065 | Gratz, Alan | Historical Fiction--Michael O'Shaunessy and his parents move from Ireland to Nazi Germany in the middle of WWII. Like other boys in his new town, Michael joins the Hitler Youth, but unlike everyone else, Michael and his family are spies, showing false support for Hitler in order to gain information for the other side. But as the stakes get higher and higher, Michael's not sure he's up to the task. | 4 | 20--audio | ||||||||||||||||
21 | Game Changer | Greenwald, Tommy | Realistic Fiction--Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma, fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery—and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this the inevitable result of playing a violent sport, or did something more sinister happen on the field that day? | 5 | 22 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Ghost Boys | Rhodes, Jewell Parker | Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Girl, Stolen | Henry, April | Mystery--Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills Cheyenne’s prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what’s happening, their car is being stolen. | 7 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Hidden Figures The Untold True Story of Four African American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space | Shetterly, Margot Lee | Nonfiction--Explores the true story of four African American female mathematicians recruited by the U.S. government during World War II to work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautiical Laboratory. Their job involbed being "human computers," using pencils, slide rulers, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would allow rickets and astronauts to be launched out of the atmosphere. | 3 | 20--audio | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Hooper | Herbach, Geoff | Sports Fiction--For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam’s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he’s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future. | 7 | 22 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | House Arrest | Holt, K.A. | Novel in Verse--Realistic Fiction--Timothy, sentenced to house arrest for stealing, and keeps a journal into which he documents his fears and frustrations. | 1 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | How Dare the Sun Rise | Uwiringiyimana, Sandra | Biography--Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn't pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped. | 1 | 3 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | I am Number 4 | Lore, Pitticus | Action & Adventure--In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a 15 year old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet. Lorien. | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | I am Princess X | Priest, Cherie | Msytery--May and Libby created Princess X on the day they met in fifth grade. That was before Libby and her mother died in a car crash. Now May is 16 and looking at another long, lonely summer in Seattle when she spots a Princess X sticker on the corner of a store window. | 4 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | I Will Always Write Back | Alifrenka, Caitlin | Nonfiction--Presents a true story of how 12 year old Caitlin Alifirenka from Pennsylvania became a pen pal with Martin Ganda, who lives in Zimbabwe. Describes how the letters they exchanged changed both of their lives and let a lifelong friendship. | 5 | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Incarceron | Fisher, Catherine | Fantasy--Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a 17-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible. | 7 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus | Bowling, Dusti | Realistic Fiction--A novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship—all while solving a mystery in a western theme park. | 18 | 20--audio | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Internment | Ahmed, Samira | Young Adult Fiction--Dystopian--Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. | 1 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Legend | Lu, Marie | Dystopian--What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. | 5 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Liar and Spy | Stead, Rebecca | Realistic Fiction--Seventh-grader George adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident in their building. | 156 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Lost in the River of Grass | Rorby, Ginny | Action & Adventure--What began as a boring and miserable experience for the new girl in school, Sarah Emerson, quickly becomes a fight for survival when she sneaks away for an unauthorized excursion with Andy, a boy she just met. Sarah finds herself stranded with Andy in the marshes of Florida. | 5 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Lost in the Sun | Graff, Lisa | Realistic Fiction--As middle schooler Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, a girl with a scar across her face, who helps him understand that he can move on. | 5 | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Mark of the Thief | Nielsen, Jennifer | Action & Adventure--When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possesion of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of the a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome. | 3 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Need | Charbonneau, Joelle | Mystery--Teenagers in a small Wisonsin town are drawn into a new social networking site that promises to grant their every need in exchange for a minor task. However, when Kaylee Dunham requests a kidney for her brother, she has no idea the price that must be paid. The site's demands are growing and people are dying. Kaylee races to uncover the creator of the NEED network before it's too late. | 4 | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | On the Come Up | Thomas, Angie | Young Adult Fiction--Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill. | 1 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | One of Us is Lying | McManus, Karen M. | Young Adult Fiction/Mystery--"Pretty Little Liars" meets "The Breakfast Club” in this “flat-out addictive” story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. | 8 | 30 | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | One Safe Place | Unsworth, Tania | Dystopian--In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children. | 5 | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Orbiting Jupiter | Schmidt, Gary | Realistic Fiction--Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he’s placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack. The two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires. | 5 | 50 | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Other Words for Home | Warga, Jasmine | Novel in Verse--Realistic Fiction--Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. | 1 | 4 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Out of My Mind | Draper, Sharon | Realistic Fiction--Eleven-year-old Melody can’t walk, can’t talk, and can’t write all because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory. She’s the smartest kid in her whole school, but NO ONE knows it. Most people—her teachers, her doctors, her classmates—dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can’t tell them otherwise. | 5 | 5 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | POP | Korman, Gordan | Sports Fiction--When Marcus moves to a new town, he doesn't have any friends. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with former NFL star Charlie Popovich, nicknamed "The King of Pop". Charlie is a charismatic prankster, and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. But when his behavior starts getting more and more erratic, Marcus learns the secret that Charlie's family is desperate to hide. | 7 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Projekt 1065 | Gratz, Alan | Historical Fiction--Michael O'Shaunessy and his parents move from Ireland to Nazi Germany in the middle of WWII. Like other boys in his new town, Michael joins the Hitler Youth, but unlike everyone else, Michael and his family are spies, showing false support for Hitler in order to gain information for the other side. But as the stakes get higher and higher, Michael's not sure he's up to the task. | 4 | 20--audio | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Rain Reign | Martin, Ann M. | Realistic Fiction--When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, the roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing. Rose's father shouldn't have let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving her routines and safe places to search. | 1 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Refugee | Gratz, Alan | Realistic Fiction--Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in this action-packed novel that tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home. | 12 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Rules | Lord, Cynthia | Realistic Fiction--Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal? | 1 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Runaway | Van Draanen, Wendelin | Realistic Fiction--After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a 12 year old orphan, travels across teh country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive. | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Salt to the Sea | Sepetys, Ruta | Historical Fiction--In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer to safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. | 4 | 50 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Save Me a Seat | Weeks, Sarah | Realistic Fiction--Joe and Ravi don't think they have anything in common -- but soon enough they have a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and a common mission: to take control of their lives over the course of a single crazy week. | 4 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Scythe | Shusterman, Neal | Dystopian-- A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life - and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. | 3 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | See You at Harry's | Knowles, Jo | Young Adult Fiction--Fern feels invisible — until the unthinkable happens, and then she feels not only more alone than ever, but also responsible for the tragedy that has wrenched her family apart | 7 | 50 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Skyward | Sanderson, Brandon | Action & Adventure--Spensa's world has been under attack for as long as any can remember, and pilots are the greatest heroes left to humanity. Spensa's dream is to become one and prover her bravery, but no one will let her forget that her father died years ago when he deserted his team, leaving her chances of getting into flight school very slim. However, when she accidentally discovers something in a long-forgotten cavern, it may prove Spensa's ticket to the stars. | 12 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Solo | Alexander, Kwame | Novel in Verse--Realistic Fiction--Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs. | 4 | 13 | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Son of the Mob | Korman, Gordan | Romance--Action & Adventure--Seventeen year old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Stella by Starlight | Draper, Sharon | Novel in verse--Historical Fiction--Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town. | 5 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Swing | Alexander, Kwame | Novel in Verse--Realistic Fiction--Noah and Walt just want to leave their geek days behind and find “cool,” but in the process discover a lot about first loves, friendship, and embracing life as well as why Black Lives Matter is so important for all. | 1 | 1 | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | The 57 Bus | Slater, Dashka | Young Adult Nonfiction--If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. | 8 | 20 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Alexie, Sherman | Young Adult Fiction--Based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, this novel chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. | 1 | 15 | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | The Benefits of Being an Octopus | Braden, Ann | Realistic Fiction--Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus: eight arms to do eight things at once. Incredible camouflage ability and steady, unblinking vision. Powerful protective defenses. Unfortunately, she's not totally invisible, and one of her teachers forces her to join the debate club. | 9 | 20--audio | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | The Body in the Woods | Henry, April | Mystery--Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom's mental illness, Nick's bravado hides his fear of not being good enough, and Ruby just wants to pursue her eccentric interests in a world that doesn't understand her. When the three teens join Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, they are teamed up to search for a autistic man lost in the woods. | 8 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | The Body of Christopher Creed | Plum-Ucci, Carol | Mystery--Torrey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | The Cage | Sender, Ruth Minskey | Memoir--A testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this “vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis." | 0 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | The Christopher Killer | Ferguson, Alane | Mystery--On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner fahter, 17 year old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger. | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | The Enemy | Higson, Charles | Mystery--Action & Adventure--This is the heart-stopping story of a group of kids holed up in a supermarket after a virus caused everyone over 16 to change into crazed, hungry, single-minded creatures who only want one thing: to eat kids. There are small gangs of children hiding around London, growing increasingly desperate and short of food. | 5 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | The Girl I Used to Be | Henry, April | Mystery--Olivia was only three years old when her mother was killed and everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large. | 4 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | The Help | Stockett, Kathryn | Historical Fiction--Together, three seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town. | 0 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | The House on Mango Street | Cisneros, Sandra | Realistic Fiction--Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. | 1 | CM | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | The Mark of the Dragonfly | Johnson, Jaleigh | Fantasy--Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, 13 year old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands. | 5 | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | The Poet X | Acevado, Elizabeth | Young Adult Fiction--Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers - especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, whom her family can never know about. | 1 | 2 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | The Raft | Bodeen, S.A. | Action & Adventure--Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. | 7 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise | Gemeinhart, Dan | Realistic Fiction--Coyote hasn’t been home in in five years, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished―the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box―she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive 3,600 miles back to Washington state in four days without him realizing it. | 4 | 22 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | The Running Dream | Van Draanen, Wendelin | Sports Fiction--Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? | 5 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | The Testing | Charbonneau, Joelle | Dystopian--The story in which a 16-year-old is chosen by her government to undergo The Testing, which decides if she gets to go to The University. The University is for the country’s best and brightest teens and puts the rebuilding and future leadership of the United Commowealth in their hands. During The Testing, extreme psychological and physical trials pit them against one another to determine which teens have what it takes to become a leader. | 6 | 50 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | The War that Saved My Life | Bradley, Kimberley Brubaker | Historical Fiction--Ada, a young girl with a deformed foot whose mother kept her inside all her life. When London fears Hitler will start bombing it, all the children are sent to the countryside and Ada sees the outside world for the first time. | 5 | 100 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
79 | They Never Came Back | Cooney, Caroline B. | Mystery--When 15 year old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenich, Conn. to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life. | 36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Uglies | Westerfeld, Scott | Dystopian--Tally lives in a world where your 16th birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation that erases all your flaws, transforming you from an "Ugly" into a "Pretty". She is on the eve of this important event and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets Shay, who is also 15 - but with a very different outlook on life. Shay isn't sure she wants to be Pretty and plans to escape to a community in the forest - the Rusty Ruins - where Uglies go to escape "turning" | 13 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Untwine | Danticat, Edwidge | Young Adult Fiction--Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a tragic encounter that will shatter everyone's world forever. | 1 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Virals | Reichs, Kathy | Action & Adventure--Adventure is in Tory Brennan's blood. After all, she’s the grandniece of world-famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Always up for a challenge, Tory and her science-geek friends spend their time exploring the marshlands of Loggerhead Island, home to the very off-limits Loggerhead Island Research Institute, where something strange is going on. | 7 | BN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | We Were Liars | Lockhart, E. | Young Adult Fiction--Mystery-- In her 15th summer at her family's place on an island off the coast of Mass., Cadence Sinclair suffers a head injury that leaves her with migraines and memory loss. Two years later she and her cousins and a family friend try to piece together her memories from the last two years in order to solve a family mystery dealing with the Sinclair family fortune. | 6 | 50 | BN | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Wonder | Palacio, R.J. | Realistic Fiction--August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid - but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. | 7 | 3 | CM | |||||||||||||||||||||
85 | The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer | Hodkin, Michelle | Mystery--Seventeen year old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends, but after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes something buried in her memory might save her family and her future. | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | The Thing About Jellyfish | Benjamin, Ali | Realistic Fiction--Twelve year old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her friend's death. | 7 | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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