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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays and original stories by some of today's most influential young adult authors that speaks directly to teens on how to find hope and comfort in today's turbulent society
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be
43) The Leaving
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--
44) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin
Author
Series
Like me block you volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When four teens discover the dead body of influencer Summer Cartwright, they must piece together the truth behind her online persona to find out who killed her"--
Author
Publisher
Child's Play
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Keith is a cat, but he'd rather be a pigeon. He loves to watch them and learn their ways, but they won't let him get too close. Will Keith ever make friends with the pigeons and learn how it feels to be one? Will he ever find out who he really is and feel comfortable just being Keith?
47) I like myself!
Author
Language
English
Description
"A little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance."--Provided by publisher
48) King Dork
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life
49) Heart of iron
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09 -- one of the last remaining illegal Metals -- has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana's desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a...
Author
Publisher
Hatchette Go
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Uncover the healing power of your story, express your authentic voice, and find connection with this positive holistic guide to writing and creativity. Lisa Weinert's work is based on the premise that we hold our stories in our bodies. The extent that we learn how to release them affects how we perceive and approach our lives - but what if we don't have the tools to understand our narrative outside of what's been told to us? What if we don't have...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration
Carey Parker dreams of being a diva, and bringing the house down with song. They can hit every note of all the top pop and Broadway hits, but emotional scars from an incident with a homophobic classmate and...
Author
Publisher
Clever Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Maya isn't like the other unicorns. She always wears a dinasaur costume, and everyone thinks she's strange. Will the others learn to accept her just the way she is? This uplifting story explores the themes of friendship, difference, acceptance of others, and being true to oneself." --
53) Out of body
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"--
54) Retazos
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Del autor ganador de la Medalla Newbery, Matt de la Pęa, y de la ilustradora bestseller del New York Times, Corinna Luyken, llega esta profundamente conmovedora oda a las infinitas posibilidades que cada nįo promete: Una joven bailarina pod̕ra convertirse un ̕da en programadora. Un jugador de baloncesto pod̕ra convertirse en poeta. La chistosa de la clase pod̕ra llegar a ser una maestra inspiradora. Y la nįa silenciosa y solidaria de hoy pod̕ra...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior
57) Patchwork
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--
Author
Series
Lei volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Anna must dig deep into her Hawaiian roots in order to save her best friend and her island from an angry fire goddess
12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised underground by a robot, twelve-year-old Eva Nine finally finds all she ever wanted in the human colony of New Attica, but something very bad is going on there and unless Eva and her friends stop it, it could mean the end of life on Orbona
60) I'm not Millie!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Someone is causing a lot of trouble during and after supper, but Millie is certainly not the guilty one
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