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The looking glass
by Janet McNally
A copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales sends Sylvie, a sixteen-year-old ballerina-in-training, in search of her runaway older sister amid strange happenings, such as a woman leaving a shoe behind while running.
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Neanderthal opens the door to the universe
by Preston Norton
Approached by an injured quarterback for help fulfilling a sacred quest to fix everything that is wrong with their high school, an extra-tall misfit begins to feel like he is part of something for the first time since his older brother's suicide, before discovering that his new friend's list of goals hits close to his own home. 50,000 first printing.
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| Fresh Ink: An Anthology by Lamar Giles (editor)What it is: a short story collection that amplifies marginalized voices, presented by the team at We Need Diverse Books.
Featuring: Nicola Yoon's vision of a bulletproof black superhero, Sara Farizan's tale of an Iranian American girl learning to cook for her girlfriend, Melissa de la Cruz’s story about an undocumented college student, plus many more.
Who it's for: anyone who's ever struggled to find themselves in the pages of a book. |
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The second life of Ava Rivers
by Faith Gardner
Eighteen-year-old Vera, eager to start college and escape the celebrity her family has endured since her twin's disappearance twelve years earlier, finds her world turned upside-down again when Ava returns.
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Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
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To kill a mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Fiction. Sixteen-year-old Starr walks an uneasy line, with one foot in her poor, mostly-black neighborhood and the other in her rich, mostly-white school. After Starr sees her friend Khalil gunned down by a white cop, however, that line is obliterated. Amid the uproar, Starr knows she should speak out, but the pressure she's under from all sides makes it difficult -- and dangerous -- to raise her voice. With a movie already in the works, this "powerful, in-your-face novel" (Horn Book Magazine) is one of the year's most talked-about books. For further fiction about the personal cost of racial injustice, try All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
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