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JUV Fiction Burg
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JUV Fiction Burg
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
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JUV Fiction Burg
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
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Told in two voices, sisters Row and Ariana are frozen by grief over their mother's death, years before, until Ariana leaves for reasons Row does not understand.
3) Swing
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Edgehill - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Alexand
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Edmondson Pike - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Alexand
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Alexand
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YA Fiction Alexand
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"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
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Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.
5) Solo
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Bordeaux - Teen Fiction
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Donelson - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Alexand
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YA Fiction Alexand
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Edgehill - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Alexand
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YA Fiction Alexand
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In this verse novel, seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, the son of fallen rock star Rutherford Morrison and the late Sunny Morrison, is struggling with his father's addiction and his girlfriend's betrayal when he learns he was adopted. He sets out on a coming-of-age journey to find his birth mother who is teaching in a small village in Ghana.
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A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.
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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Pinkney
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JUV Fiction Pinkney
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Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Pinkney
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JUV Fiction Pinkney
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Madison - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Pinkney
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JUV Fiction Pinkney
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Green Hills - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Pinkney
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Pinkney
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Main Library - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Pinkney
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Pinkney
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Watkins Park - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Pinkney
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Pinkney
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"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder"--Provided by publisher.
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Looby - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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Pruitt - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
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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.
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Donelson - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Warga
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JUV Fiction Warga
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Edgehill - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Warga
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JUV Fiction Warga
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Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Warga
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JUV Fiction Warga
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Thompson Lane - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Warga
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Warga
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Pruitt - Kids Audiobook
Playaway JUV Fiction Warga
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Playaway JUV Fiction Warga
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Southeast - Kids Audiobook
Playaway JUV Fiction Warga
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Playaway JUV Fiction Warga
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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...
11) Moo
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Bellevue - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Creech
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Creech
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Hermitage - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Creech
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Creech
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Main Library - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Creech
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Creech
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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.
12) Locomotion
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Bordeaux - Kids Non-Fiction
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j811.6 W898L
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North - 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.
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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.
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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Shovan
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JUV Fiction Shovan
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Shovan
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JUV Fiction Shovan
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East - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Shovan
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JUV Fiction Shovan
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Green Hills - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Shovan
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Shovan
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Hermitage - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Shovan
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Shovan
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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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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Lai
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JUV Fiction Lai
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Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Lai
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JUV Fiction Lai
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Madison - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Lai
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JUV Fiction Lai
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Lai
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Lai
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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.
16) 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.
17) Hate that cat
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Creech
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JUV Fiction Creech
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Goodlettsville - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Creech
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JUV Fiction Creech
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Creech
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JUV Fiction Creech
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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.
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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.
19) 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.
20) Garvey's choice
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 1
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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Main Library - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Grimes
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JUV Fiction Grimes
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Madison - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Grimes
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Grimes
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North - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Grimes
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Grimes
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Inglewood - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Grimes
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Grimes
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Looby - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Grimes
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PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Grimes
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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,...