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1) Wave
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When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
2) Stuck
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"A coming-of-age story about a boy who is used to constantly moving and flying under the radar at school, and the classroom of kids who help him stand out in the best way"--
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In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
4) A-Okay
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It's Here
J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
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"A-Okay by Jarad Greene is a vulnerable and heartfelt semi-autobiographical middle grade graphic novel about acne, identity, and finding your place." -- Amazon.com
5) Wildoak
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Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.
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The skin I'm in novels volume 1
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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It's Here
J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Audiobook
Talking Book F Moo
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Talking Book F Moo
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Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
9) Speak
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
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20 copies, 100 people are on the wait list.
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With the future of the wizard world at stake, teenaged wizard Harry Potter enters into his final battle against the evil Lord Voldemort. Potter turns to friends, teachers, and other members of the Order of the Phoenix for help in defeating Voldemort's forces. The discovery of spies within the Order forces Harry and the others to choose their allies carefully.
11) Wonder
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his clasassmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, who comes of age in the squalor and poverty of the Williamsburg slums in Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century.
13) The tequila worm
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Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."
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"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief."--
15) Romiette & Julio
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Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
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In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its initial publication, and with a new introduction by the author, here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango...
17) Ghost
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
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"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--Provided by the publisher.
18) The crossover
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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It's Here
J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Audiobook
Talking Book F Ale
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Talking Book F Ale
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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It's Here
J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Biography
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J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Biography
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"An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--
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The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies