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A wizard of Earthsea : a graphic novel
by Fred Fordham
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth, he was the reckless Sparrowhawk, and in his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets, unleashing a terrible shadow on the world. Illustrations.
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Murder between friends
by Liz Lawson
Told in three voices, Grace questions her eyewitness testimony that convicted Henry's brother in a murder trial, leaving former childhood friends Henry and Ally no choice but to join forces with her to prove Jake's innocence
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All the noise at once
by DeAndra Davis
"A Black, autistic teen tries to figure out what happened the night his older brother was unjustly arrested"
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The Premonitions Club
by Gwendolyn Womack
"When Liv Hall and her friends find boxes of letters hidden in her grandfather’s attic, they discover hundreds of psychic predictions addressed to the Premonitions Bureau, a bureau to investigate psychic abilities that mysteriously closed in 1993. As the group reads decades-old premonitions, they stumble on letters from powerful psychics who mailed in their predictions and then disappeared. A post online about the found predictions alerts a black ops group in charge of the military’s paranormal research, who will do anything to get their hands on the letters and the psychics who wrote them. Liv and her friends now know too much, and they’re directly in the crosshairs. To survive, they’re going to have to rely on each other and the unlikely help of psychics who thought they’d left the dangers of the Bureau behind forever."-- Provided by publisher. | |
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The corruption of Hollis Brown
by K. Ancrum
Hollis Brown feels trapped in his struggling small town but then meets Walt, a spirit adrift for generations, who takes over Hollis' body and mind, but Walt and Hollis start to work together and an unspeakable bond grows between them. Simultaneous eBook.
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Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Month |
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Monstrous : a transracial adoption story
by Sarah Myer
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode
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Almost American Girl
by Robin Ha
What it’s about: Chuna is 14 when her single mom decides to marry a Korean American man, moving their little family from Seoul to Alabama. Feeling adrift in a new country, a new language, and an unwelcoming new school and stepfamily, Chuna finds an anchor in drawing comics.
Why you might like it: This illustrated memoir offers an honest, unsentimental look at a mother-daughter relationship, and at how one immigrant teen finds herself through art.
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Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
by Amelie Wen Zhao
Lan makes a meager living singing for the Elantians, the people who conquered her kingdom. When magician Zen reveals Lan’s hidden power, she joins in a quest that may restore -- or destroy -- the Last Kingdom. Read-alikes: S. Jae-Jones' Zhara; Elizabeth Lim's Six Crimson Cranes.
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This is not a personal statement
by Tracy Badua
When she doesn't get into Delmont University, 16-year-old Perla forges her own acceptance letter and arrives on campus with a plan, but soon her guilty conscience and campus security make her wonder if this is something she even wants. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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This Place Is Still Beautiful
by Xixi Tian
What it is: an emotionally intense story exploring the complicated relationship between two biracial sisters, Margaret and Annalie, whose house is vandalized with a racist slur.
How it's told: in alternating perspectives that illuminate the two girls' realities. Margaret, out for justice, has more obvious Asian features. Annalie is white-passing and wishes everything would blow over.
Read it for: a quiet, powerful portrait of the long-lasting effects of racism and the uncertainty that accompanies the end of high school.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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