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VIDAL,J
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VIDAL,J
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"When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude."--
2) Sync
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HOPKINS,E
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HOPKINS,E
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Told in dual perspectives through unsent letters, this heartbreaking novel follows 17-year-old twins Storm and Lake, separated in the foster care system, as they each take different paths—one incarcerated and one living on the streets—and fight to find their way back to each other.
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COLE,O
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COLE,O
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Montecito Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
COLE,O
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COLE,O
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Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
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SAWYERR,H
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SAWYERR,H
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Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn’t the holy man everyone thinks he is. The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her life starts to unravel: her father is frustrated...
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COELHO,J
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COELHO,J
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Montecito Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
COELHO,J
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COELHO,J
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Blending the ancient myth of Theseus with the quest of a modern-day teen searching for his father, this unputdownable novel-in-verse follows 17-year-old Theo as he realizes he must be resourceful and strong like his mythical hero after he is tricked and double-crossed by a search-agency scam artist and a depraved lawyer.
6) Dear Medusa
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
COLE,O
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COLE,O
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Eastside Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
COLE,O
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COLE,O
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Publisher Annotation: This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving.
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
KEMP,L
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KEMP,L
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With the help of her cousin and their friends, Danna scours the city, searching for her grandfather's favorite foods and hoping the remembered flavors will bring back his memories.
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
MCCULLOUGH,J
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MCCULLOUGH,J
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In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
9) Wolfpack
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BRUNSKILL,A
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BRUNSKILL,A
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A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicision and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
10) Muted
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Be bold. Get seen. Be Heard.
For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown.
So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean "Mercury" Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights - plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even...
11) Crank
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HOPKINS,E
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HOPKINS,E
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Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
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Eastside Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
ACEVEDO,E
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ACEVEDO,E
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Montecito Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
ACEVEDO,E
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ACEVEDO,E
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ACEVEDO, E
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ACEVEDO, E
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When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
13) When we make it
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VELASQUEZ,E
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VELASQUEZ,E
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Eastside Library - Young Adult Fiction - New Books
VELASQUEZ,E
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VELASQUEZ,E
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Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
14) Ronit & Jamil
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Pamela L. Laskin's beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict.
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,...
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WALTON,W
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WALTON,W
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For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
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JOAN OF ARC
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JOAN OF ARC
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"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
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ATTA,D
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ATTA,D
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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...
18) Me (Moth)
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Fiction MCBRIDE,A
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Fiction MCBRIDE,A
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Montecito Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
MCBRIDE,A
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MCBRIDE,A
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Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
19) White Rose
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WILSON,K
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WILSON,K
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Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
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MCCULLOUGH,J
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MCCULLOUGH,J
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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.