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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
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1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 811 NYE
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YA 811 NYE
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"Ninety-five poems pay tribute to essential voices past and present that have the power to provoke us, lead us, and give us hope" -- Provided by publlisher.
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2 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC MCC
1 available
YA FIC MCC
1 available
Fife Lake Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA FIC MCC
1 available
YA FIC MCC
1 available
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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.
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1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 811 JUD
1 available
YA 811 JUD
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A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
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Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother, are on the autism spectrum, and Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, fears she will enable Lauren's lawbreaking. Told half in prose, half in verse.
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1 copies.
Interlochen Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA Fiction Grimes 2018
1 available
YA Fiction Grimes 2018
1 available
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1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Playaway
PA FIC GRI
1 available
PA FIC GRI
1 available
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A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.
On Shelf
1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 970 NOT
1 available
YA 970 NOT
1 available
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"Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate...
8) Solo
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Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, "A contemporary hero's journey, brilliantly told." Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs.
Blade
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5 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC ACE
1 available
YA FIC ACE
1 available
East Bay Branch Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC ACE
1 available
YA FIC ACE
1 available
Fife Lake Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC ACE
1 available
YA FIC ACE
1 available
On Shelf
1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Audiobook on MP3 CD
MP3CD FIC ACE
1 available
MP3CD FIC ACE
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eBook
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
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Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 811 KAU
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YA 811 KAU
1 available
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In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman--known as @poeticpoison--does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself...
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Kingsley Branch Library - Young Adult Collection
Y FIC ELL
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Y FIC ELL
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"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
12) For everyone
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Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 811 REY
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YA 811 REY
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"Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. Jump Anyway is for kids who dream. Kids who dream of being better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than they almost dare to dream....
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After his dad dies of suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him in this exquisitely crafted story made up of one hundred chapters of one hundred words each, by award-winning and bestselling author Alison McGhee.
Sixteen-year-old Will spends most of his days the same way: Working at the Dollar Only store, trying to replicate his late father's famous cornbread recipe, and walking the streets of Los Angeles....
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3 copies.
East Bay Branch Library - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 921 AND
1 available
YA 921 AND
1 available
Interlochen Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA 921 Anderson 2019
1 available
YA 921 Anderson 2019
1 available
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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
15) Swing
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Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Sam, will never take it past the "best friend" zone. Noah would love to retire his bat and accept the status quo, but Walt has got big plans for them both, which include making the best baseball comeback ever,...
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2 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Non-fiction
YA 921 GRI
1 available
YA 921 GRI
1 available
Interlochen Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA 921 Grimes 2019
1 available
YA 921 Grimes 2019
1 available
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"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
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1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC ENG
1 available
YA FIC ENG
1 available
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A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.
18) Turtle under ice
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1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC DEL
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YA FIC DEL
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Told in two voices, sisters Row and Ariana are frozen by grief over their mother's death, years before, until Ariana leaves for reasons Row does not understand. After her mother died a few years ago, Rowena and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive. When Ariana disappears-- at night, in the middle of a snowstorm--...
19) Being Toffee
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1 copies.
Woodmere (Main) Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC CRO
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YA FIC CRO
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Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee. Running away from an abusive home, Allison takes shelter in a shed behind an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty after all; an elderly woman named Marla, who suffers from dementia, lives there. And rather than turn her away, Marla welcomes her-- mistaking Allison for an old...
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1 copies.
Peninsula Community Library - Adult
YA FIC ILO
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YA FIC ILO
1 available
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"Ada" means first daughter, means oldest girl, means most pressure. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a historical Black college, it's the first time that she's been able to make her own choices. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past-- her mother's struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father's attempts to make a home for her. Will she find the courage to shape...