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81) Chlorine sky
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Poetry and Novels in Verse - Teens
Teen Short Reads: Books 250 Pages or Less
Poetry and Novels in Verse - Teens
Teen Short Reads: Books 250 Pages or Less
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Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
82) Good different
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Books with Neurodiverse Characters (SCPL-YS)
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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Books with Neurodiverse Characters (SCPL-YS)
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels...
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 2
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"Capturing the shock and reverberations of the COVID-19 pandemic through poetry, as Garvey's life goes into lockdown and his father becomes sick, Garvey must find a way to use his newfound musical skills to bring hope to both his father and himself"--
84) Ultraviolet
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Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
85) Like a hurricane
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"In this novel in verse for middle readers, a young teen struggles with revealing who he really is to those he loves."--
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Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father...
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
RPS Teen Novels in Verse
Young Adult Awards List 2023-24
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
RPS Teen Novels in Verse
Young Adult Awards List 2023-24
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A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
90) Ronit & Jamil
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Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian boy, lives on the other side. Only miles apart but separated by generations of conflict -- much more than just the concrete blockade between them. Their fathers, however, work in a distrusting but mutually beneficial business arrangement, a relationship that brings Ronit and Jamil together. And lightning strikes. The kind of lightning that transcends barrier fences, war,...
91) Love that dog
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A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
92) When we make it
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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A first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader, Sarai can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. As she questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination...
93) Alone
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Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
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4th Grade Recommended Reads
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
K&T - Girls in Science
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
K&T - Girls in Science
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Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.
95) Lifeboat 12
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
If You Like...Hatchet
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
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If You Like...Hatchet
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
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In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
96) Junk boy
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"Bobby, who is bullied by the kids at school for living in a home with a front yard that is filled with garbage, meets a young artist who teaches him to see himself as more than "Junk Boy.""--
Junk. That's what the kids at school call Bobby Lang. Trying desperately to live under the radar at school-- and at the home he shares with his angry, neglectful father-- Bobby develops a sort of proud loneliness. The only buffer between him and the uncaring...
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LSS - Pride Teen Fiction
OBD Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prize Winners and Finalists - ADULT
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LSS - Pride Teen Fiction
OBD Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prize Winners and Finalists - ADULT
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"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
100) Unsettled
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
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Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
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