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Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Classics with YA Pairs
Most Challenged Books of 2022
Staff Reads November 2023
Classics with YA Pairs
Most Challenged Books of 2022
Staff Reads November 2023
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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
2) Scythe
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Arc of a scythe volume 1
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English
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""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
3) Croak
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Croak trilogy volume 1
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English
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A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
4) Scorch
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Croak trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
5) Wintergirls
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
9) Belladonna
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Belladonna (Grace) volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death--and her own deathly powers--when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.
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Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
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English
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Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
11) More than this
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Seth cannot figure out if he is dead or alive. He cannot figure out where he is, though it seems as if he is in the English town he lived in as a child before his family moved to America.
13) One moment
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English
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Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the lake with their long-time friends, she realizes some terrible secrets are being kept.
14) The book thief
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Kill Off
Rainbow Reads for Teens
Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
Kill Off
Rainbow Reads for Teens
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"Adam Silvera reminds us that there's no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book *...
16) Dark triumph
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Series
His fair assassin volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
17) Mortal heart
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Series
His fair assassin trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
18) Rogue
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Croak trilogy volume 3
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English
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Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction.
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Lying game novels volume 3
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English
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Emma Paxton is trying to find out who killed her sister Sutton and if Thayer Vega is back for revenge.
20) The Alex crow
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English
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The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.
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