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21) Punching the air
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Hadley Park - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Zoboi
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YA Fiction Zoboi
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Main Library - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Zoboi
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YA Fiction Zoboi
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Watkins Park - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Zoboi
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YA Fiction Zoboi
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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 a...
22) Dragon hoops
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Donelson - Teen Comic/Graphic
YA Graphic B Y223d
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YA Graphic B Y223d
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"Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....
23) Parachutes
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Edmondson Pike - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Yang
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YA Fiction Yang
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Southeast - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Yang
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YA Fiction Yang
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Thompson Lane - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Yang
1 available
YA Fiction Yang
1 available
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A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
24) Early departures
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Donelson - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Reynold
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YA Fiction Reynold
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Edgehill - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Reynold
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YA Fiction Reynold
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What if you could bring your best friend back to life--but only for a short time? Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason they haven't been friends for two years is because Jamal blames Q for the accident that killed his parents. But what if Jamal could have a second chance? A new technology allows Q to be reanimated for a few weeks before...
25) The black kids
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Bellevue - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Reed
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YA Fiction Reed
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East - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Reed
1 available
YA Fiction Reed
1 available
Southeast - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Reed
1 available
YA Fiction Reed
1 available
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
27) Sanctuary
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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Mendoza
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YA Fiction Mendoza
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Madison - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Mendoza
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YA Fiction Mendoza
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In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
28) Elatsoe
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Bellevue - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Little
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YA Fiction Little
1 available
Donelson - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Little
2 available
YA Fiction Little
2 available
Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Little
1 available
YA Fiction Little
1 available
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"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
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Bellevue - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Johnson
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YA Fiction Johnson
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Edgehill - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Johnson
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YA Fiction Johnson
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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Johnson
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YA Fiction Johnson
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
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East - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Johnson
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YA Fiction Johnson
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Edmondson Pike - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Johnson
1 available
YA Fiction Johnson
1 available
Hadley Park - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Johnson
1 available
YA Fiction Johnson
1 available
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While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.-- Provided by Publisher.
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Bellevue - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Thousan
1 available
YA Fiction Thousan
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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Thousan
1 available
YA Fiction Thousan
1 available
Main Library - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Thousan
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YA Fiction Thousan
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Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.