Kiko Himura is a half-Japanese teen who struggles with social anxiety and living with her narcissistic, racist mother. When she doesn’t get into her dream…
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Sasha and Richard are both high school students living in Oakland, California. Because of their hometown’s vast diversity, their worlds could not be more different.…
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Aza Holmes is a sixteen-year-old girl who has struggled with various anxiety disorders, mainly Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, for her whole life. She often contemplates whether…
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Huck Finn is a young boy living in southern Antebellum society. He runs away from his home and his abusive, alcoholic father and travels along…
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Book #1 of the Skinjacker Trilogy This book begins with a car crash. Allie is suddenly rushing down a tunnel when Nick slams into her…
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Since the birth of her twin brothers, twelve year-old Ivy feels increasingly invisible and things get only worse after a devastating tornado rips through her…
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SLAY is a virtual reality, role-playing fantasy game connecting and celebrating the black community but when the anonymous African-American teen developer learns of the death…
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1930s Nazi Germany, Josef and his Jewish family must flee the country, to escape the madness of Hitler, and the horrors of WWII. 1994 Cuba,…
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Percy Jackson has gotten kicked out of many schools. All these weird things keep happening to him. It isn’t his fault. But then it gets…
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Another state another school. Roy Eberhhardt just moved from Montana to Florida. He thinks school will be normal but when looking out the school…
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