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61) Anthem: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
64) Desperate
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Gage and Anna meet Lily, a pregnant, homeless teenager, it seems that fate has brought them together. Lily agrees to give the couple her baby in return for financial support, but something isn't right. Gage finds himself being sabotaged at home and work, and his attempts to uncover the truth only seem to make his life unravel faster.
65) American honey
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vivacious teenage rebel joins a group of fellow misfits who hustle and party their way across the country.
Author
Series
Forest novels (Shion Miura) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community...At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast..But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he?s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer?an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders?and the one person who seems...
68) Banana Split
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a summer, two teenage girls develop the perfect kindred spirit friendship, with one problem: one of them is dating the other’s ex.
69) Flower
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross (Zoey Deutch) is a sassy 17-year-old living with her single mom Laurie (Kathryn Hahn) and mom's new boyfriend Bob (Tim Heidecker) in L.A's San Fernando Valley. When Bob's son Luke (Joey Morgan) moves in with the family after a stint in rehab, Erica finds her domestic and personal life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks Kala (Dylan Gelula) and Claudine (Maya Eshet) in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a dark...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
72) Incredible doom
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to "Evol BBS," a dial-in...
Publisher
La Galera 50
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Una nueva ración de Adolescentes. El Manual para aquellos que no tuvieron suficiente con la primera y quieran repetir. Más consejos, comentarios y test sobre los temas que interesan a los adolescentes: historias de amor, el arte de ligar, cómo son los chicos, cómo son las chicas, belleza y moda... Además, un consultorio que recoge las inquietudes de los lectores, y unas entrevistas a los famosos más admirados por los adolescentes."--
74) Before takeoff
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover...seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually...a button. Which she presses...Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles...
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Teenagers are tired, strapped for time, and often asked to wake far earlier than they should due to school start times. In The Sleep-Deprived Teen, journalist Lisa L. Lewis shares the science of why teenage sleep matters, providing parents with a roadmapto improve their teens' sleep--and their own"--
77) The island
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They arrive under age and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely alien to their own. In some provinces, specifically Ontario, these unaccompanied refugee minors have surprisingly no government system in place for their care after arriving. This documentary is a cinematic portrait of a year in the life of two such teenagers, Joyce and Sallieu. They seem like your typical teenagers, except that reserved Sallieu, 16, witnessed...
79) The Sol Majestic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite. Everything changes when Kenna wins a free dinner at The Sol Majestic, the galaxy's most renowned restaurant, giving him access to the cosmos's one-percent. His dream is jeopardized, however, when he learns his highly-publicized "free meal" risks putting The Sol Majestic into financial ruin. Kenna and a motley...
80) Generation One
Publisher
First Look Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A short documentary that explores the lives of the children of Arab immigrants as they navigate life in their tight-knit community and life in mainstream society. It explains the realizations that they come to, the conflicts that they encounter, and the resolutions that they arrive at in searching for an identity between the hyphens.
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