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Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
23) Devil in Ohio
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Language
English
Description
Mae moves in with fifteen-year-old Jules' family and seems to be taking over Jules' life, but Mae's past in a nearby cult soon threatens them all
24) Rez ball
Author
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
Description
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.
25) Empty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
28) The unteachables
Author
Language
English
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Description
Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
29) Ungifted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.
31) Rainbow boys
Author
Series
Rainbow trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
32) Emory's gift
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First media tie-in edition.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, she is surprised to find that they have a lot in common.
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.
Author
Series
Gifts (O'donoghue) volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her friend mysteriously vanishes after drawing an unsettling tarot card called The Housekeeper, Maeve uses her deep connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find.
37) Be more chill
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
39) Arden Grey
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey finds escape in her love of film photography as she navigates toxic relationships and how they influence her identity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules's plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show"--
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