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2) Leaving time
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English
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"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
3) Joyride
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Carly Vega will not rest until she saves enough money from her graveyard shift at the convenience store to buy her deported parents a way back from Mexico. Arden Moss needs someone to take his older sister's place as a fellow prankster who will help the once-famous school quarterback make his father, the town sheriff, squirm. Tired of acting in accordance with others' wishes, Carly and Arden plot their own course forward as their hearts unite.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor, Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance. Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only reality they have ever known. In these dark circumstances,...
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Publisher Annotation: When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he?s falling?hard. Soon she?s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack. But then Kate dies. And their story should end there. Yet Kate?s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate?s there again. Healthy, happy,...
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English
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As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
7) Queen of All
Author
Series
Jena cycle volume 1
Publisher
Zenith
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"In a Kingdom once filled with the magic of the Goddess Gaia, fourteen-year-old Jena has never left her family's tiny, failing farm. With an absent mother and an inattentive father, Jenas only solace is her cousin Sisi, a girl renowned throughout the Four Corners of the Earth for her indescribable beauty. But when a letter arrives for Sisi from Prince Ricard, the man Sisi suspects is responsible for the recent devastation across the lands, the two...
8) Unpregnant
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Perfect for fans of Juno and Jennifer E. Smith comes this hysterically funny and heartfelt YA novel about fierce friendship, reproductive rights, and the wild road to adulthood.
10) Senior week
Publisher
Liberation Hall
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Everett and his party-hungry buddies embark on an all-night road-trip to the Florida beaches, for a week of fun, sun, and beautiful women. Mayhem ensues when two jealous girlfriends show up unexpectedly, along with a psycho teacher who's hunting down Everett because he owes her an overdue term paper.
11) What light
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English
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Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon?it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other. By reputation, Caleb is not...
12) Runebinder
Author
Series
Runebinder chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind's downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place. But they are losing. Tenn is a Hunter,...
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"When a sixteen-year-old boy learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, he joins the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls, playing second base and disguised as a girl. Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyoming-and he takes the kid under his tutelage. Staying alive won't prove easy for either of the reluctant female...
14) Jaws 2
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Four years after the great white shark terrorized the small resort of Amity, unsuspecting vacationers begin disappearing in an all-too-familiar fashion. Police Chief Brody finds himself in a race against time when a new shark attacks ten sailboats manned by teenagers, including his own two sons. The same heart-stopping suspense and gripping adventure that enthralled movie audiences throughout the world in Jaws returns in this worthy sequel to the...
15) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When city-boy Ren McCormick finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned, he revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter to change everyone's mind.
16) Pumpkinheads
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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2021-2022 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
Diverse Graphic Novels for All
If I Ever Get Out of Here: Further Reading
Teen Feel-Good Reads
Diverse Graphic Novels for All
If I Ever Get Out of Here: Further Reading
Teen Feel-Good Reads
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This format is designed to be read on color devices and cannot be read on black-and-white e-readers.
In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place—and a person—with no regrets.
Deja
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Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Language
English
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it?s not running away. It?s leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn?t...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Fiction about Reproductive Rights
Library Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
Staff Picks--Black History Month 2024 Edition
Library Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
Staff Picks--Black History Month 2024 Edition
Description
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most"--
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's...
19) Dramarama
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's 1994 and a group of high school drama nerds are throwing their last murder mystery slumber party. Before they leave for college, Gene wants to come out of the closet, but is terrified of what his sheltered friends might think.
20) Hello girls
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English
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Thelma and Louise gets remade in this powerful, darkly funny teen novel from acclaimed authors Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry. Two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.
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