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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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[2023]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: REALISTIC F DEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
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-- Bronx wood.By Booth, Coe[2013]., Adolescent, Push Call No: TEEN FIC BOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tyrell's life is spinning out of control after his father is released from prison, his little brother is placed in foster care, and the drug dealers he's living with are pressuring him to start dealing.
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[2021]., Adolescent, BHC Press Call No: MYSTERY FIC THR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Sherlock Holmes may not have been a journalist, but that doesn't stop high school senior Kennedy Carter from embracing his methods. With her sights set on becoming an investigative reporter, Kennedy lives by the famous detective's rules: observe the obvious, eliminate the impossible, and avoid romantic entanglements at all costs. Kennedy has her heart set on winning the $10,000 Excellence in Emerging Journalism award so she can finally escape her small town and see the world with her very own kind-hearted Watson--best friend and school photographer Ravi Burman. But research into a local urban legend and a murder investigation she can't resist are threatening to derail her plans. To find the killer preying on her graduating class, she and Ravi team up to investigate the deaths and work to uncover the story of a lifetime--if it doesn't cost them their lives first"--Publisher description.
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2006., Primary, Orchard Books Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The chimpanzees of a colorless and boring town defy their grumpy mayor and make Drabsville, now named Happytown, fun again.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: ROMANCE F BLA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering with local blogger Hibiscus over all things Chinatown and tea. When a major corporation reveals plans that threaten to shut down the Mok's beloved tea shop, Clementine and Danny find themselves working together in real life to save this community they both love. But as they fall hard for this cause--and each other--they have no clue that their online personas have been fighting for years. When the truth comes to light, can Danny and Clementine still find their happily-ever-after?"--Provided by the publisher.
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By O'Shei, Timc2011., Capstone Press Call No: 133.1 OSH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Edge books. Scary storiesSummary Note: Relates several scary urban legends, such as the babysitter who received threatening phone calls and the vanishing hitchhiker.
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2024., Pre-adolescent, Zando Young Readers Call No: SUPERNATURAL F CLA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The first in a spine-tingling middle-grade adventure series that's Goosebumps meets Stranger Things following three friends who discover that the eerie urban legends they've been obsessively collecting may not be just make-believe . . . Emrys Houtman knows something isn't quite right in the town of New Rotterdam, although no one talks about it-certainly not the grown-ups. The sky is always overcast, and urban legends abound of mysterious disappearances, cursed objects, and strange creatures wandering the coastal fog. While bonding with Hazel and Serena, his new neighbors and fellow horror fans, Emrys documents the town's creepypastas, spooky legends, and cryptid sightings in a Wiki. It's all in the spirit of good fun . . . until one day, the trio stumble upon the Doomsday Archives, a mysterious collection of relics that reveal something is very, very rotten in New Rotterdam. To their horror, the kids discover that while they've been busy hunting for monsters, the monsters are now hunting them back. Emrys, Hazel, and Serena must stop the terrors plaguing their town, or risk losing their home-and possibly their lives"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Hate you give[2017], Juvenile, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: REALISTIC F THO Edition: First edition. Availability:4 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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-- Hate you give[2017], Juvenile, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: SET F THO Edition: First edition. Availability:11 of 15 At Location(s) Summary Note: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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c2004., Greenwillow Books Call No: E Bak Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A wordless picture book that observes the changes in a neighborhood from before a girl is born until she is an adult, as it first decays and then is renewed by the efforts of the residents.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: REALISTIC F JAC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: things done changed. But that doesn't mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph's music lie forgotten under his bed after he's murdered, not when his rhymes could turn any Bed Stuy corner into a party. With the help of Steph's younger sister Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph's music under a new rap name: the Architect.
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2017., Adolescent, Chicken House Call No: SCIENCE FICTION Edition: 1st ed., February 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for Alice, his missing friend. Deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine used to banish teenage criminals for their offenses. Captured and condemned to a cavernous dimension, Preston is determined to escape. But this is no ordinary jail"--Dust jacket.
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2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company Call No: Realistic Fic Magoon Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Told from multiple viewpoints, relates how Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
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Ã2018, Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first African American Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: HISTORICAL F CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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c2013., Primary, Magic Wagon Call No: 813.6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Looking glass librarySummary Note: When she finds large muddy footprints in the city park, a little girl investigates and tracks the monster to it's lair.
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2017., Adolescent, Grantravesia Call No: Young adult FIC THOMAS Edition: Primera edición. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Starr es una chica de dieciséis años que vive entre dos mundos: el barrio pobre de gente negra donde nació, y su escuela situada en un elegante barrio residencial blanco. El difÃcil equilibrio entre ambos se hace añicos cuando ella es testigo de la muerte a tiros de su mejor amigo, Khalil, a manos de un policÃa. A partir de ese momento, todo lo que Starr diga acerca de la aterradora noche que cambió su vida podrá ser usado de excusa por unos y como arma por otros. Y lo peor de todo es que, tanto los de un lado como los de otro, la tienen en el punto de mira y amenazan con poner en riesgo su vida."--Oceanotravesia.mx.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding. But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick's changing landscape, or lose it all"--Dust jacket flap.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Romance FIC Zoboi Edition: First edition. Genre: Romance Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding. But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick's changing landscape, or lose it all. In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, critically acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic.
