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1) Dead to you
Author
Language
English
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Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
Author
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Author
Series
Shadow Falls novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks," of which she may be one.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
6) Heaven
Author
Series
Casteel family series volume 1
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.
10) I never
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After learning that her seemingly-happy parents are separating, and that a popular senior is interested in her, seventeen-year-old Janey King's priorities shift from track, school, friends, and family to something more.
11) Tiny infinities
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Angry that her father has left, twelve-year-old Alice swears that she will live in her family's old Renaissance tent until he agrees to return; but after she meets her mute four-year-old neighbor Piper she finds herself becoming involved in the child's life--and when she hears the little girl speak a word for the first time in years she sets out to prove to Piper's parents that the dismal diagnosis they received for their daughter may be all wrong....
12) Halfway normal
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Norah struggles to fit in at middle school after two years of treatment, but she finds her voice with the help of new friend Griffin, who shares her love of mythology.
13) The best lies
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Remy Tsai's boyfriend, Jack, is shot by her best friend, Elise, and while police investigate, Remy probes her memories for the truth of their friendship.
14) Paper things
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an attempt to honor their late mother's request, 19-year-old Gage and his sister Ari leave their guardian's home and end up crashing with friends or at shelters.
15) Dear Justyce
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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2020 Youth Media Awards: Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz!
2021-2022 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Newbery Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
2021-2022 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Newbery Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One year ago, there was a party. At the party, someone died. Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth. But tonight, the five survivors arrive at an isolated mansion in the hills, expecting to compete in a contest with a $50,000 grand prize. Of course some things are too good to be true. They were each so desperate for the prize, they didn't question the odd, rather exclusive invitation until it was too late.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
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