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1) The poet X
Author
Language
English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
HAR--Hispanic Heritage Month
JEF - Audiobooks YA (June)
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HAR--Hispanic Heritage Month
JEF - Audiobooks YA (June)
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Description
Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
Author
Language
English
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All Together Now - Summer Reading Teen Reads
DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
HAR--Hispanic Heritage Month
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
HAR--Hispanic Heritage Month
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Description
Two sisters mourn their father's death after his plane crashes on a flight to the Dominican Republic.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A group of nine high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.
To hone his writing skills and learn more about the power of words, Darrian enrolls in Mr. Ward's class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important to say, and in sharing...
9) Solo
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English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
10) Forget me not
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Language
English
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When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
11) Kent State
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
NPM - Outstanding Books for the College Bound (YALSA) 2019
NPM - YA Tough Topics
NPM - Outstanding Books for the College Bound (YALSA) 2019
NPM - YA Tough Topics
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Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned intoa bloody battlefield.
12) And we stay
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and begins to heal.
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English
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Rome, 1605: After her mother's death, Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. Artemisia became...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Five months after Liv's older brother, Jonah, accidentally shot himself, Liv is the one who takes care of Jonah, and she has not spoken to Jonah's best friend, Clay, whose father owns the gun, even though she knows Clay is suffering, too.
16) Swing
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse follows the experiences of fourteen-year-old Lilly, as an innocent flirtation turns into sexual abuse by a friend of her parents and she is tormented by her abuser's threat to ruin her family and her own desperate need for help.
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