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1) Speak
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English
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Ashland Books at Noon April 2019 Picks
Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Classics with YA Pairs
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Classics with YA Pairs
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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English
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"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
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Series
Field party novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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In the small town of Lawton, Alabama, star high school quarterback West Ashby meets new girl Maggie Carlton, both battling feelings of grief and sorrow.
5) Revolution
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Language
English
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
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Series
If I stay volume 2
Language
English
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
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Series
Way I used to be volume 1
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English
Description
"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
9) Time bomb
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English
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"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
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Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1
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English
Description
When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
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Publisher Annotation: Seventeen-year-old Klee?s father was the center of his life. He introduced Klee to the great museums of New York City and the important artists on their walls, he told him stories made of myths and magic. Until his death. Now, forced to live in the suburbs with his mom, Klee can?t help but feel he?s lost all the identifying parts of himself?his beloved father, weekly trips to the MoMA, and the thrumming energy of New York City....
13) Skinhead birdy
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Series
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English
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Sara Allen is a skinhead and part of the punk subculture. Tyler Ruiz sees Sara as an easy hookup, but then things get crazy because Sara is manic.
14) I am J
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
15) Belzhar: a novel
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English
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Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"--
17) Cicada summer
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily mourns her brother, and has not spoken since the accident she feels she could have prevented, but the summer Tinny comes to town she is the only one who realizes Lily's secret.
18) Ghost
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Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
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