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4) Eagle strike
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
5) For Lamb
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
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So begins Destination Unknown -- it's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out -- he's complete out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night. A connection occurs. Is it friendship? Romance? Is C.J. the one with all the answers... or does Micah bring more to the relationship...
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"It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what's coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and...
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man...
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Miss Peregrine volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world. Illustrations feature vintage photography.
10) Punching the air
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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...
11) Vixen
Author
Series
Flappers volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.
12) Lily and Dunkin
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...
13) Uprising
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
"Spinning off of the hit Cartoon Network animated series Teen Titans Go!, Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven take over the big screen in their first-ever movie, coming out July 27th, 2018! But before you catch them in theaters, catch up with the Titans in this new anthology graphic novel featuring their greatest comics stories ever! Whether it's taking down their arch-foes or a few dozen pizzas, the world's best teenage heroes put together...
15) The watcher
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.
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