Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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[2017], Adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: FIC STORK Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape is to risk the dangerous trek across the desert to the United States border.
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2019., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F PER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
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2023., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F GUP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
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2020., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: REALISTIC F HOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Nadia looks for adventure in the pages of her Superman comic books, until a mysterious boy saves her dog from drowning during a storm and then disappears. Now she finds herself in the role of Lois Lane, hunting down the scoop of the Invisible Boy. Suddenly she's in a real-life adventure that's far more dangerous than anything in her comic books. The Invisible Boy is a mystery and an adventure story, as well as a story about child labor trafficking. Like Katherine Applegate, author of Crenshaw and Wishtree, Alyssa Hollingsworth takes a difficult subject matter and makes it accessible for middle-grade readers"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Life I am in2021., Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F FLA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In The Skin I'm In, readers saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Now in Sharon Flake's latest and unflinching novel, The Life I'm In, we follow Charlese Jones, who, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully. Turned out of the only home she has known, Char boards a bus to nowhere where she is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking. Much is revealed behind the complex system of men who take advantage of vulnerable teens in the underbelly of society. While Char might be frightened, she remains strong and determined to bring herself and her fellow victims out of the dark and back into the light, reminding us why compassion is a powerful cure to the ills of the world"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- St. Death2017, Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: REALISTIC F SED Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Arturo scrapes by living in Anapra working odd jobs and staying out of sight. His friend Faustino joined one of the drug gangs. He stole money from the gang to send his girlfriend and her baby into the U.S. -- and he wants Arturo's help replacing the money before the gang kills him. Looming over Arturo's story, and Juarez itself, is Santa Muerte -- Saint Death, watching impassively as people in the border town struggle in the face of a vicious drug trade, dangerous trafficking, corruption, and income inequality.
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p2012., Adolescent, Tantor Audio Call No: CD Fic McC Edition: Unabridged. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.
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2008, c2006., Adolescent, Hyperion Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Hyperion pbk. e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.
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c2012, Adolescent, Findaway Call No: [Fic] Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.
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c2006., Juvenile, Hyperion Books Call No: Realistic FIC McCormick Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Disney-Hyperion Call No: FIC POLONSKY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing. The note was stuffed into a purse and is a desperate plea for help. Will her strategy work?
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By Preus, Margi2014., Amulet Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
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By Preus, Margi2014., Amulet Books Call No: HISTORICAL F PRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
