An Island Like You by Judith Ortiz CoferTwelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings.
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Red Spikes by Margo LanaganTen stories that take place in worlds not quite our own and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human.
Reservation Blues by Sherman AlexieOne day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-builds-the-fire a magical odyssey begins.
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The Perfect Shot by Elaine Marie AlphinBrian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served.
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Twisted by Laurie Halse AndersonAfter finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
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Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-RhodesSeventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
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Funny Little Monkey by Andrew AuseonArty, an abnormally short fourteen-year-old boy, enlists the help of a group of students, known at school as the "pathetic losers," to take revenge against his abusive, tall fraternal twin brother.
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The Sari Shop by Rupa BajwaWhen Ramchand is sent to a new part of the city to show wares to a wealthy family preparing for their daughter's wedding, he gets a glimpse into a different world.
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The Ghost Road by Pat BarkerThe Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making.".
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Harley Like a Person by Cat BauerFourteen-year-old Harley, an artistic teenager living with her alcoholic father and angry mother, suspects that she is adopted and begins a search for her biological parents.
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My Lost and Found Life by Melodie BowsherWhen her mother is accused of embezzling a million dollars and vanishes, spoiled, selfish Ashley must fend for herself by finding a job and a place to live.
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Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin BrandeFollowing her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution
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The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann BrasharesAlice and her older sister Riley have been coming to their parent's vacation home on Fire Island all their lives, but things change the summer Alice turns twenty-one and their island neighbor and friend Paul, who has been away several years, returns to sell his family's house and finally act on his attraction to Alice.
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Lucky T by Kate Brian
Carrie gets upset when her mother gives her lucky T-shirt to Help India. Now to stop her bad luck, she only has to travel around the world to get her lucky shirt back. No problem, right?
Lucky T by Kate BrianCarrie gets upset when her mother gives her lucky T-shirt to Help India. Now to stop her bad luck, she only has to travel around the world to get her lucky shirt back. No problem, right?
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Sophie by Guy Burt
Matthew's search for answers about his childhood and his family lead him to kidnap his own sister and demand she reveal what she knows, no matter what the cost is.
Sophie by Guy BurtMatthew's search for answers about his childhood and his family lead him to kidnap his own sister and demand she reveal what she knows, no matter what the cost is.
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Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is born with a destiny to become something great, perhaps even a Maker.
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Seventh Son by Orson Scott CardAlvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is born with a destiny to become something great, perhaps even a Maker.
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Dragon's Keep by Janet Kee CareyIn 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Daniel Half Human by David ChotjewitzIn 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish.
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One whole and perfect day by Judith ClarkeAs her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.
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One Mississippi by Mark ChildressWhen Daniel Musgrove's troubled family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, he is appalled. On top of the usual teenage humiliations, he now has to learn to say "y'all" and "Co-Cola" or risk being ostracized as a Yankee. But Daniel's loneliness fades when he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins. They commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town.
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Foe by J.M. Coetzee
Susan Barton, having lived for over a year on a desolate island with fellow castaways Crusoe and his mute servant Friday, approaches author Daniel Foe upon her safe return to England to write of her adventures, but he sees a very different truth in her story.
Foe by J.M. CoetzeeSusan Barton, having lived for over a year on a desolate island with fellow castaways Crusoe and his mute servant Friday, approaches author Daniel Foe upon her safe return to England to write of her adventures, but he sees a very different truth in her story.
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I, Tituba by Maryse Condé
From the warm shores of Barbados in the seventeenth-century to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England, Tituba, the only black victim of the Salem witch trials, recalls a life of extraordinary experience and mystical powers.
I, Tituba by Maryse CondéFrom the warm shores of Barbados in the seventeenth-century to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England, Tituba, the only black victim of the Salem witch trials, recalls a life of extraordinary experience and mystical powers.
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Bass ackwards and belly up by Liz Craft and Sarah Fain
When one of four best friends lies and says she will pursue her dream of writing a novel rather than start college, two others join in, one by going to Los Angeles to become an actress and one by backpacking through Europe to find herself, while the fourth goes to college, joins her hero's ski team, and tries to fall in love.
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Storm Thief by Chris Wooding
With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.
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Poison by Chris Wooding
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
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Bass ackwards and belly up by Liz Craft and Sarah FainWhen one of four best friends lies and says she will pursue her dream of writing a novel rather than start college, two others join in, one by going to Los Angeles to become an actress and one by backpacking through Europe to find herself, while the fourth goes to college, joins her hero's ski team, and tries to fall in love.
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Storm Thief by Chris WoodingWith the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.
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Poison by Chris WoodingWhen Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
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Be More Chill by Ned VizziniBadly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
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Off the Books by Sudhir Venkatesh The author takes the reader into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto.
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Gang Leader For a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics.
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Gang Leader For a Day by Sudhir VenkateshThe story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics.
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonOne man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
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Heroin Diaries by Nikki SixxThe co-founder of the rock band Mötley Crüe presents a candid account of his own descent into the hell of drug addiction, describing the impact of heroin on his life and the band.
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Cromartie High School by Eiji Nonaka
Takashi Kamiyama enters Cromartie High, where he struggles to fit in with the school's tough student body, and turns to a book to help him adjust to his new environment, but the book's advice causes more harm than good.
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God's Bits of Wood by Sembene OusmaneA fictionalized account of the workers' strike against the Dakar-Niger railway in West Africa in 1947-48
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You'll be Okay by Edie Kerouac-ParkerEdie Kerouac-Parker chronicles her relationship with Jack Kerouac, discussing how they met and fell in love, the years they lived together in New York, their friendships with other prominent figures in literature, and other related topics.
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Save Me from Myself by Brian "Head" Welch
Former lead guitarist of Korn Brian "Head" Welch discusses his experiences touring with the band and his addiction to drugs, and provides insight into his journey to seek a higher power and how his newfound Christian beliefs have changed his life.
Save Me from Myself by Brian "Head" WelchFormer lead guitarist of Korn Brian "Head" Welch discusses his experiences touring with the band and his addiction to drugs, and provides insight into his journey to seek a higher power and how his newfound Christian beliefs have changed his life.
The Red Azalea by Anchee MinRed Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. At seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao’s political operas, Min’s life changed overnight.
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