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This Thing of Ours
by Frederick Joseph
In an instant, Ossie Brown’s entire future is in jeopardy when a torn ACL ends his promising basketball career. Now that basketball is no longer a major part of his identity, Ossie—a Black teen who doesn’t come from wealth and privilege—must navigate his new place in the social and academic ecosystems of his affluent, predominantly white school. This unflinching novel confronts critical issues like racism and classism, the treatment of student athletes, homophobia, and book banning while weaving together a moving testament to family, romance, friendship, and the power of words.
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Death in the cards
by Mia P. Manansala
When a high school tarot reader's latest client goes missing after a troubling reading, she must apply everything she has learned from her private investigator mother to solve a case of her own
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His face is the sun
by Michelle Jabáes Corpora
Four strangers connected by a forgotten oracle must work together to save their divided kingdom from destruction amidst the brewing conflict and struggle for the pharaoh's throne
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Up in Smoke
by Nick Brooks
A girl determined to clear her brother's name. A boy determined to keep his out of the line of fire. A secret smoldering between them. This edge-of-your-seat mystery from the author of Promise Boys is perfect for fans of Karen McManus and The Hate U Give.
Unmask a murderer or take the fall.
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The Thrashers
by Julie Soto
Seventeen-year-old Jodi Dillon, the outsider in an exclusive high school group, is caught between loyalty and self-preservation after the mysterious death of a former friend, as strange events and unsettling truths begin to unravel about the group's dark secrets.
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Wake the wild creatures
by Nova Ren Suma
Sixteen-year-old Talia delves into her memories of the hidden feminist commune she grew up in and plots her way back to it after her mother is arrested for murder.
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Out of air
by Rachel Reiss
While scuba diving off the Australian coast, Phoebe "Phibs" Ray and her friends uncover a legendary underwater treasure, but as strange transformations begin to take hold, they must fight to protect each other from dangerous treasure hunters and a dark, growing power.
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Adventure books for Teens
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Icarus
by K. Ancrum
A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son—the boy he's come to love.
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Somewhere in the deep
by Tanvi Berwah
To erase her debts, Krescent Dune joins a dangerous rescue mission deep beneath the island where she is trapped in the darkness with her childhood enemy and people who would gladly kill her if they knew who her parents were.
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So let them burn
by Kamilah Cole
cAfter her sister Elara forms an unbreakable bond with an enemy dragon, seventeen-year-old Faron, who once wielded the magic of the gods to save her island from those same dragon-riding colonizers, must find a way to save her sister and the fate of their world in the face of impossible odds.
Available on cloudLibrary.
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The Revenant Games
by Margie Fuston
Competing in the Revenant Games, held by the warring vampire and witch kingdoms, to get her dead sister back and save her dying best friend, 17-year-old Bly must make an impossible choice when the vampire she captures stirs a passion within her she hasn't felt in ages.
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A suffragist's guide to the Antarctic
by Yi Shun Lai
Told in journal entries, this historical novel follows suffragist Clara Ketterling-Dunbar, one of 28 crew members of The Resolute marooned on ice 100 miles from the shore of Antarctica, as she demonstrates what women are truly capable of.
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Thieves' gambit
by Kayvion Lewis
To save her mother's life, 17-year-old Ross Quest enters the Thieves' Gambit, a series of dangerous, international heists where the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world, forcing her to decide who to con and who to trust before time runs out.
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Her radiant curse
by Elizabeth Lim
When her beautiful 17-year-old sister Vanna is to be auctioned off in a vulgar betrothal contest, Channi, who is cursed with a serpent's face, defends Vanna from the cruelest of suitors, unleashing an evil that could sever their bond forever.
Series: Legends of Lor'yan #1
Also available on cloudLibrary.
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The wicked bargain
by Gabe Cole Novoa
Hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice, transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate Mar teams up with the most unlikely allies to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father and retrieve his soul from el Diablo.
Also available on cloudLibrary.
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Stars and smoke
by Marie Lu
Nineteen-year-old Winter Young, the world's hottest superstar, is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon and finds himself paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.
Also available on Libby and cloudLibrary.
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