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1) Dear Medusa
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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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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 - Upper Level - New Teen Shelf
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.
4) 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.
5) 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...
6) Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1
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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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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
ACEVEDO,E
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ACEVEDO,E
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Eastside Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
ACEVEDO,E
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ACEVEDO,E
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
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.
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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.
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
LASKIN,P
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LASKIN,P
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Eastside Library - Young Adult Fiction - Teen Area
LASKIN,P
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LASKIN,P
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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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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
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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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
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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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
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...
13) Me (Moth)
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Fiction MCBRIDE,A
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Fiction MCBRIDE,A
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Eastside 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.
14) White Rose
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
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.
15) A time to dance
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
Venkatram
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Venkatram
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In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
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.
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CULLEY,B
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CULLEY,B
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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.
18) Punching the air
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
ZOBOI,I
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ZOBOI,I
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Montecito Library - Young Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
ZOBOI,I
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ZOBOI,I
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. "The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born." Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in...
19) Solo
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
ALEXANDER,K
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ALEXANDER,K
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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.
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
ELHILLO,S
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ELHILLO,S
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"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...