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By Updike, John1994., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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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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By Tahir, Sabaa2023., Adolescent, Razorbill Call No: [Fic] Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Fantasy FIC Stiefvater Genre: Fantasy Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Beatriz, Daniel, and Joaquin are three cousins in the Soria family, a family who all have the ability to perform miracles of unexpected and unusual natures--Beatriz feels nothing, Daniel makes miracles for all but himself, and Joaquin runs a renegade radio station as host Diablo Diablo. All three cousins want to change the family for the better, but when they wish for that miracle, they get something none of them expected.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Historical Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar Americas racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.
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2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Chao Edition: First Simon Pulse paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
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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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2005., Washington Square Press Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Joey Molina's family moves from California to a small town in Oregon where they are one of three Latino families. He has always been against any act of violence, but because he is Chicano, his classmates assume he knows about gangs. Aspiring to be an actor, he pretends to be in a gang to impress them. After being urged to start a gang of his own, Joey begins to question whether or not he is a gang leader or if he is still just acting.
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2023., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Realistic Fic Kemp Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: With the help of her cousin and their friends, Danna scours the city, searching for her grandfather's favorite foods and hoping the remembered flavors will bring back his memories.
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2019., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Realistic FIC Pan Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: After her mother's suicide, fifteen-year-old Leigh travels to Taiwan where she will finally meet the grandparents she never knew and come to terms with her mother's death. As she immerses herself the culture, she finds signs and hidden meanings all around her, and begins to believe that her mother has been reincarnated as a giant red bird.
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2012., Adolescent, St. Martin's Griffin Call No: Realistic Fic Jordan Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Devastated to find herself back in a group home after a peaceful year of living with loving foster parents, a Brooklyn teenager striving to become strong and independent soon falls prey to the dangerous affections of a good looking but shady young man.
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By Masood, Syed2022., Anchor Books Call No: Historical Fic Masood Edition: First Anchor Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Anvar Faris, a young man originally from Pakistan, and Safwa, a young woman from Iraq, are both Muslims who don't feel much connection to their faith. When both of them move the United States, their feelings of uncertainty grow, and when they cross paths in the mid-2010s, their lives will never be the same.
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By Méndez, Matt2020., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Realistic Fic Mendez Edition: First Atheneum paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In El Paso, Fabi, her son Juan, and his best friend JD each have their own struggles as they deal with the injustices of being brown and poor in Texas. After a mistake at a party in a wealthy neighborhood, Juan and JD find themselves on the run, and decide to search out answers to who Juan's father really is. Fabi wants to stop them, but she is also struggling with the secrets of her own family.
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2022., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: Historical Fic Charles Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1984 New Jersey, fifteen-year-old Beatriz Mendez dreams of becoming a professional dancer like her idol Debbie Allen. Then her gang-leader brother is murdered and the fierce Beatriz is forced to step into her brother's shoes to run the gang at a time when cocaine was the dominant force running the neighborhood. Her dreams of dancing are all but gone, and her mother, grieving over the loss of her son, has turned into a shell of her former self. Then a classmate asks Beatriz to join him in a dance competition and her passion for dance once again sneaks in.
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[2020]., Juvenile, 030000, Playaway Call No: FIC Alexander Pat Edition: Unabridged. Availability:8 of 8 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassius Clay is your typical young kid. He learns life lessons from his grandfather, hides his report card from his parents, and hangs out around Louisville with his friends. But after dealing with bullies, Cassius wants to learn how to box in order to fight back. Fortunately, his best friend Lucky always has his back no matter what. With the help of his family and friends, Cassius may just achieve more than he could have ever dreamed through boxing.
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2022., Juvenile, Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company : Clarion Books Call No: [FIC] Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:2 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassius Clay is your typical young kid. He learns life lessons from his grandfather, hides his report card from his parents, and hangs out around Louisville with his friends. But after dealing with bullies, Cassius wants to learn how to box in order to fight back. Fortunately, his best friend Lucky always has his back no matter what. With the help of his family and friends, Cassius may just achieve more than he could have ever dreamed through boxing.
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2022., Juvenile, Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company : Clarion Books Call No: FIC Patterson Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassius Clay is your typical young kid. He learns life lessons from his grandfather, hides his report card from his parents, and hangs out around Louisville with his friends. But after dealing with bullies, Cassius wants to learn how to box in order to fight back. Fortunately, his best friend Lucky always has his back no matter what. With the help of his family and friends, Cassius may just achieve more than he could have ever dreamed through boxing.
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[2020]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: FIC PANCHOLY Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Rahul Kapoor heads into seventh grade armed with advice his grandfather gave him--to find a thing he's good at and become the best at it. But Rahul struggles with his identity, including his confusing attraction to classmate Justin Emery. With the help of his best friend Chelsea, Rahul confronts who he actually is.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: FIC RHODES Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Donte is the darker-skinned brother of Trey, which in his racist, mostly-white school has earned him the nickname Black Brother. When the captain of the school fencing team successfully frames him for something he didn't do, Donte is arrested and suspended. He begins training to defeat his school bully and find courage to confront the racist system that got him arrested.
