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1) Spin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Arachne turns to weaving for solace, but when word spreads of her skill she is confronted by the goddess Athena and the two enter a weaving contest that results in transformation and redemption.
3) Wolfpack
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicision and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
4) Starfish
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Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
5) I am Kavi
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War, one Sinhalese girl must adapt to a new school, a new city, and new friends, while always staying true to herself"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
418 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Description
Una novela en verso inolvidable, torrencial, esperanzadora, que redefine la esperanza. Sarai es primera generación de una familia puertorriqueña que vive en New York. Estudia octavo grado y ya puede ver con claridad la verdad, el dolor y la belleza del mundo, tanto dentro como fuera de su apartamento en Bushwick. Junto con su hermana mayor, Estrella, navega la tensión de traumas familiares, las presiones de la masculinidad tóxica y la inseguridad...
7) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Description
Nick Hall is the star player on the soccer team until a bombshell announcement shatters his world.
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. "The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born." Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in...
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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 her...
13) Tricks
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
627 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
15) Traffick
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life. There's Eden, the preacher's daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue. Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body. Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze. Ginger, who runs away from home with her...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
17) Up from the sea
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A novel in verse about the March 2011 tsunami that sent Japan into chaos, told from the point-of-view of Kai, a biracial teenaged boy.
18) Ode to a nobody
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Description
After a devastating tornado tears apart her home, thirteen-year-old Quinn struggles to find stability and return to who she was before, finding she has to rebuild herself.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi keep her swim practices and meets hidden from Mami, who has never recovered from losing someone she loves to the water years ago. That is, until the day Ani's stiffness and swollen joints mean she can no longer get out of bed, and Ani is forced to reveal just how important swimming is to her. What follows is the journey of a girl who must grieve who she once was...
20) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
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