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Never Too Old (formerly YARLI) meets the 1st WEDNESDAY of the month to share the diversity, depth, and relevance of Young Adult & Juvenile books. All ages are welcome. For more information, contact beth@lopezlibrary.org |
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SURVIVAL Stories This is a diverse theme that is often read in school classes, a famous one being Gary Paulsen's Hatchet. Many more authors have written stories of young people surviving in environments from cities to wilderness. Here are just a few examples:
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Finding wonders : three girls who changed science
by Jeannine Atkins
A novel in verse about three girls from different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists introduces the lives and achievements of insect life-cycle artist Maria Merian, fossil pioneer Mary Anning and comet discoverer Maria Mitchell.
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Deepest breath
by Meg Grehan
A middle grade novel-in-verse depicts a young girl whose visits to the library help her manage her anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand, including her complicated feelings about her friend, Chloe.
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Diamond Willow
by Helen Frost
In a remote area of Alaska, Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
Written in unique diamond shapes interspersed with prose sections for the animal spirits, this is beautiful with keen insights into a young girl's emotions and determination.
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Clap when you land
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.
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My name is Mina
by David Almond
Creative and intelligent nine-year-old Mina keeps a chaotic journal that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Don't miss the humorous, wise words from Mina: "Simple Facts About Children."
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Punching the air
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
The award-winning author of American Street and the prison reform activist of the Exonerated Five trace the story of a young artist and poet whose prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
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Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Not an easy read, but very well-written, about a woman who speaks up for herself in a time when it was extremely difficult to do so.
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The braid
by Helen Frost
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
Simply beautiful observational poems; the title is from the braided hair of the sisters.
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The poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
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Forest world
by Margarita Engle
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
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Whiteout
by Vanessa Lanang
Hoping to be a professional snowboarder like her father, sixteen-year-old Jessa Castillo ignores an approaching storm to practice snowboarding with her brother, Pax, fourteen, but soon the two are trapped in a blizzard.
A great adventure read for young people who love snowboarding, but also engaging and well-written for adult readers.
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Deepest breath
by Meg Grehan
A middle grade novel-in-verse depicts a young girl whose visits to the library help her manage her anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand, including her complicated feelings about her friend, Chloe.
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Me (Moth)
by Amber McBride
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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Mountain dog
by Margarita Engle
Sent to live with a great uncle he has never met in beautiful Sierra Nevada when his mother goes to jail, traumatized young Tony bonds with his Tío and a search-and-rescue dog named Gabe while making new friends in his new school and church who help him to experience unconditional love for the first time.
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Salt : a story of friendship in a time of war
by Helen Frost
A novel in verse about two 12-year-old boys—a Miami tribe member and the son of traders—explores how their early 19th-century friendship was tested by rising tensions between Fort Wayne armies and Native Americans who sought to protect their homeland.
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Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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Another wide range of titles, with just a few examples shown here:
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