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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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2008., 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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2009., Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Realistic FIC Foxlee Edition: 1st American ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened.
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c2009., Adolescent, Greenwillow Books Call No: Realistic FIC Crutcher Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.
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By Lynch, Chris2012., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Realistic FIC Lynch Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Turner Publishing Company Call No: Realistic Fic Moses Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In Crystal Springs, Louisiana, when sixteen-year-old James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead, he tries to run the household by himself, hiding his mother's death from the authorities, caring for his little brother, and scrounging for food until things become increasingly desperate.
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2006., Juvenile, HarperTempest Call No: Realistic FIC Myers Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.
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2010., Adolescent, Speak Call No: Realistic FIC Chaltas Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in verse that tells the story of a girl who witnesses her father abuse her brother and sister but feels powerless to stop it. Then she gains confidence from playing volleyball at school and tries making changes at home.
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2010., Adolescent, Egmont USA Call No: Mystery FIC Strasser Strasser Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: At a high school party, a girl finds her best friend murdered, only to be discovered holding the weapon and accused of the crime.
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2022., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Realistic Fic Peppins Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Avielle "Avi" LeBeau can't wait to join her older sister Belle at Briarcliff Prep, a Historically Black Boarding School that everyone in her family has attended, and Avi's life is soon filled with new friends, challenging classes, and a possible romance. Belle is dating Logan, the most popular boy at Briarcliff's sibling school Preston Academy, but no matter how much Belle reassures her, Avi can't help but feel like something is off about him. When Avi uncovers a dangerous secret about Logan, she knows she has to tell someone, but doing so could ruin her relationship with her sister forever.
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2007., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Hopkins Book 1 Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
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-- Card turner2011., Juvenile, Ember Call No: Realistic FIC Sachar Sachar Edition: 1st Ember ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
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-- Card turner2011., Juvenile, Ember Call No: Realistic FIC Sachar Edition: 1st Ember ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
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2004., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Hopkins Book 1 Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Honor student Kristina Georgia Snow takes a road trip to find her estranged father and never returns. A reckless girl named Bree takes her place and becomes addicted to crank.
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2013., Harper Perennial Call No: Realistic FIC ODonnell O'D Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: On her fifteenth birthday, Christmas Eve, Marnie and her little sister, Nellie, bury their parents in their back yard. They refuse to even tell anyone that they are dead. Marnie just has to get through a year, to her sixteenth birthday, then she can legally be Nellie's guardian. Lennie, the old neighbor from across the street, suspects they need his help. However, as the year drags on, more people begin asking tougher questions, and in the end Marnie, Nellie, and Lennie have only each other to answer for.
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2009., Juvenile, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: Realistic FIC Cowan Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Sabine is caught on video for throwing garbage back at someone who tossed it out their window, the video is put on YouTube and she becomes the center of a heated eco-debate. Inspired to greater global consciousness, she goes to work at an organic co-op where she meets Vray and vows to change her life and influence others. When Vray's activism takes a dark turn, Sabine is faced with having to make some difficult decisions.
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2008., Little, Brown and Co Call No: FIC MAS MSLIB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Skyscape Call No: Realistic Fic Villa Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Julin "Jules" Luna's plan was to graduate high school, get into UCLA, and move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and out from under the expectations of his community that has kept his homosexuality in the closet all his life--then, with one reckless Tweet, Jules outs himself and suddenly must deal with the fallout, but at the same time finds himself with the opportunity of living his real self as Mat, his cute Twitter crush, suddenly DM's him.
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c2010., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Realistic FIC Kramon Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Finny Short has an unusual family but is able to deal with their quirky habits by befriending Earl Henckel, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Her parents disapprove of her relationship with Earl and send her to Thorndon boarding school. It's there that she meet New York heiress Judith Turngate, and journeys into adulthood.
