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-- Sixteen things I thought were true[2014?]., Sourcebooks Fire Call No: REALISTIC F GUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Morgan's mom gets sick, she takes a road trip with her friends to find her real dad.
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-- Ninety days of different2017., Juvenile, Orca Book Publishers Call No: Realistic FIC Walters Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ella is going to take the ninety days between high school and college to help Sophie explore her spontaneous side. The only rules are that Sophie cannot say no to anything Ella suggests, and everything they do must be posted to social media.
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c2008., Laura Geringer Books/HarperTeen Call No: REALISTIC F LEC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her house and soon goes missing.
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2020., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Realistic Fic Richards Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Believing her mother dead from a car accident, sixteen-year-old Johanna is being raised by her grandparents in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her father suddenly corresponds after being gone since she was a baby, revealing in a letter that her mother died of a gunshot wound inflicted by Johanna after she found an unsecured gun in their home when she was a toddler. The revelation sends Johanna into an emotional tailspin, from which she'll have to learn to forgive herself and those who lied to her.
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c2008., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: REALISTIC F WOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2010., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: Realistic FIC Woodson Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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-- After Tupac and D Fosterc2008., Juvenile, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC WOODSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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-- I got a handle on it[2017]., Adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: Realistic FIC Mixon Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Tim is a sophomore in a high school on the tough streets of Newark. With an alcoholic father who recently left the family, his home life can be rough. Already two years behind in school, Tim struggles to read and tries to fight the rage that boils inside his frustration with life and academics. But a fight with some gang members in his neighborhood leads to the death of another boy, and now Tim has to find a way back from the brink.
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2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Realistic Fic Courtney Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.
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2016., Adolescent, St. Martin's Griffin Call No: Realistic FIC Summers Edition: First St. Martin's Griffin edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: After being assaulted by the sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, Romy Grey was branded a liar and bullied by former friends, finding refuge only in the diner where she works outside of town, but when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing and news of him assaulting another girl gets out, Romy must decide whether to speak out again or risk having more girls hurt.
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By Gough, Erin2020., Adolescent, Poppy/Little, Brown and Company Call No: Realistic Fic Gough Edition: First U.S. trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Harriet Price, a prefect at elite Rosemead Grammar, risks her perfect life by joining forces with bad-girl Will Everhart in a hoax to expose the school's many problems.
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2019., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Realistic FIC Flores-Scott Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Some hard hits take Teodoro "T" Avila down the summer before his senior year, not least of which being his beloved older brother Manny returning from tour in Iraq with severe PTSD. Desperate to save Manny from himself and to heal his family, T's fiery sister, Xochitl, tricks her brothers into going on a road trip with one another.
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2018., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic FIC Zoboi Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Fabiola Toussaint and her mother are headed for American Street and Joy Road, finally leaving Haiti for the good life in the U.S. After leaving Port-au-Prince, however, Fabiola's mother is detained by immigration officials. Now Fabiola has to navigate life in loud, gritty, new, and surprising America by herself, leading her to an impossible choice and the possibility of paying a heavy price to achieve the American dream.
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2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic Fic Milanes Edition: First Simon Pulse paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Though she is really a sixteen-year-old Florida teen, Analee finds herself more comfortable as her online role-playing persona, Kiri, the night elf hunter in her favorite game, with her online partner Xolkar, a teen boy named Harris whom she has never met in person. She hides from her real-life problems and the weird thoughts in her head, until she becomes lab partners with the school heartthrob, Seb Matias. He asks her to pose as his girlfriend to make his ex jealous and Analee agrees, but the more she comes out of her shell, the more she wonders if she's making a big mistake.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Realistic Fic Van Name Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old June feels she is nothing without her best friend, Jess, but everything changes after she is expelled and must attend a Virginia boarding school where her grandmother teaches.
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Ã2012., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Realistic FIC Saenz Edition: First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
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By Malone, Jen2020., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Realistic Fic Malone Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After the liver disease she was born with flares up unexpectedly, roller derby star Amelia, eighteen, must come to terms with the brevity of life while hoping for an organ transplant.
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2018., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Realistic FIC Williamson Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: David Piper has never really felt like he fit in, and often finds himself the target of bullies. When Leo, the new kid at school, sticks up for him one day, the two become friends. And they soon discover they have more in common than they ever imagined. Leo used to be a girl, and David wants so badly to transition to become a girl, but fears how his family and friends might react. Together, they travel the rocky road of being teens who are trying to find their own version of normal.
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c2005., Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children Call No: REALISTIC F FLA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man.
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2016., Adolescent, Albert Whitman & Company Call No: Realistic FIC Sullivan Edition: Paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Henry deserves his nickname, Biggie, due to his six-foot frame and over three-hundred-pound body. Remarkably, he has found out that his extreme weight actually makes him socially invisible, and he can't remember the last time he was made fun of in school. Online his life is really good, with multiple Internet girlfriends in love with his ability to flirt. One day one of those girls, Annabelle, shoplifts at the gas station where Henry works, and everything about Biggie's life changes.
