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1) American ace
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Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
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After a series of disappointing setbacks, Suzy decides to live for one summer as Emily Dickinson by practicing solitude. But although she gains some helpful insights, she ultimately realizes that life as a recluse is not for her.
3) Booked
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
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Donelson - Kids Fiction
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Main Library - Kids Audiobook
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Bellevue - Kids Comic/Graphic
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Green Hills - Kids Audiobook
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Pruitt - Kids Audiobook
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Richland Park - Kids Audiobook
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"Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams"--OCLC.
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East - Kids Non-Fiction
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Edgehill - Kids Non-Fiction
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Hadley Park - Kids Audiobook
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Bellevue - Teen Fiction
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"Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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Edgehill - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Alexand
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Goodlettsville - Teen Fiction
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Main Library - Teen Fiction
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Main Library - Teen Audiobook
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Bellevue - Teen Comic/Graphic
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YA Graphic Fiction Alexand
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Edmondson Pike - Teen Comic/Graphic
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Goodlettsville - Teen Comic/Graphic
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Edgehill - Adult Fresh Reads
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Fresh Reads Fiction Alexand
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Green Hills - Kids Audiobook
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When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
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In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 1
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
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Madison - Kids Audiobook
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North - Kids Audiobook
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Inglewood - Kids Audiobook
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Looby - Kids Audiobook
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"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
10) Girls like me
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Fifteen-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail.
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Gone fishing volume 1
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In this novel told through poems, nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad, so when his pesky little sister horns in on their fishing trip, he is none too pleased. Includes primer on rhyme, poetry techniques, rhythm, stanzas, and poetic forms.
12) Hate that cat
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Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.
13) House arrest
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Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
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"Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama"--Provided by publisher.
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
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Green Hills - Kids Audiobook
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Audiobook
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"A story told in verse from multiple perspectives of the graduating fifth grade class of Emerson Elementary. The kids join together to try to save their school from being torn down to make way for a supermarket"--
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In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
17) Locomotion
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Bordeaux - Kids Non-Fiction
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Audiobook
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In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
18) Moo
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Bellevue - Kids Audiobook
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Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
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Donelson - Kids Fiction
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JUV Fiction Warga
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Edgehill - Kids Fiction
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
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Southeast - Kids Audiobook
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Thompson Lane - Kids Audiobook
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Main Library - Kids Audiobook
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Pruitt - Kids Audiobook
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"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. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school in the US--and her new label of 'Middle Eastern,' an...
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.