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Eighteen-year-old Adina Walker, a scholarship student at a prestigious academy, faces the consequences of a single mistake and competes in a high-stakes contest hosted by the wealthy Remington family, where she uncovers unsettling truths about the sponsors and the contest's high stakes.
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Quill Tree Books
Language
English
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When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
5) Rez ball
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Language
English
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YA Genres: Contemporary Fiction (Realistic Fiction)
YA Reads: Books about Grief and Loss
YA Reads: Books by Indigenous Authors
YA Reads: Books about Grief and Loss
YA Reads: Books by Indigenous Authors
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When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up--not on the court, not in school and not in love.
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English
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"After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Rainbow boys
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English
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Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Opinionated siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian debate a variety of topics relating to the ups and downs of middle school life and encourage readers to add their own contributions through write-in games and activities.
11) Jawbreaker
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twleve-year-old Max, who has an extreme overbite, must navigate sibling rivalry and middle school bullies.
13) Forget me not
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Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Stevie and Nora's plan to abandon their conservative small town for California so they can be together is shattered when a terrible fall steals every trace of Stevie's relationship with Nora from her memory.
14) Free radicals
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
Author
Series
Marty Pants volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When middle schooler Marty Pants discovers an alien plot to take over the world, no one, not his best friends Parker and Roongrat or his family or arch-enemy, Simon, believe him, so it is up to Mary to investigate and save the world.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
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English
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When the town threatens to close their crumbling middle school and Greg realizes he'd have to go to a different school than his best friend, he rallies his classmates to save their school before it's shuttered for good.
19) Secret sisters
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida enters a small-town high school after years of attending a rural one-room schoolhouse, but the enthusiasm she and her new friends have for the modern world and modern ways pits them against the school's old-fashioned principal.
Publisher
Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!"--
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