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Read a Book by a Georgia Author
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Clean Getaway
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Nic Stone
William Lamar, known as "Scoob," goes on a road trip through the South with his grandmother in her recreational vehicle, visiting some of the major sites in the Civil Rights movement and learning about how people like him have been treated.
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Countdown
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Deborah Wiles
The fearful events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis are witnessed by eleven-year-old Franny, who finds her life and perspectives changing throughout the course of a week that is also marked by difficult family issues.
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Hope in the Holler
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Lisa Lewis Tyre
Sent to live with scheming relatives after the death of her mother, Wavie struggles to follow the list of instructions left by her mother about how to be brave and find her place in the world as part of an effort to secure a home with a loving guardian.
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Drive Me Crazy
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Terra Elan McVoy
When Lana's and Cassie's grandparents marry each other, the girls find themselves stuck together on a crazy summer road trip that will change the course of their friendship and their lives.
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Omar Rising
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Aisha Saeed
While attending an elite boarding school on scholarship, Omar, the son of a servant, discovers the school makes it nearly impossible for scholarship students to graduate and sets out to do the impossible—change a rigged system.
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The Thing with Feathers
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McCall Hoyle
A homeschooled girl with epilepsy reconsiders her beliefs about playing it safe during a first year in public school, where she hides her medical condition from her basketball athlete partner during a research project.
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The Gilded Wolves
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Roshani Chokshi
Keeping close secrets in the wake of the Exposition Universelle in 1889 Paris, a wealthy hotelier and treasure-hunter is tapped by a powerful order to lead an elite team on a quest to track down an ancient artifact of world-changing significance.
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Dear Martin
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Nic Stone
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Peaches
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Jodi Lynn Anderson
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
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The Summer We Forgot
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Caroline George
Reunited over the death of their former science teacher, a group of friends suspects there is a murderer on the loose and must try to recover their missing memories from the previous summer before the history they cannot remember repeats itself.
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