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Becoming Billie Holiday

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Becoming Billie Holiday
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In ninety-seven poems using the titles from Billie Holiday's song list, the first twenty-five years of Billie Holiday's life are celebrated. It wasn't always an easy life and...
 
 
Bird

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Bird
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Bird loves to draw. Drawing is a friend he can count on. He can count on it when life is handing him some hard things like his grandfather...
 
 
Blink & Caution

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Blink & Caution
Brent and Kitty are teens who live on the street in Toronto. Blink [because of a tic when he gets nervous] ran away to escape an abusive stepfather. Caution...
 
 
Boost

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Boost
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Two sisters, one starting high school and one going into the eighth grade have just moved into a new town and a new school and are trying to find...
 
 
Clean

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Clean
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"All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control. A plague upon your ignorance and the gray despair of your ugly life....
 
 
Edges

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Edges
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Seventeen year-old Luke escapes his alcoholic father to live in a trailer in Arizona. Nineteen year-old Ava feels abandoned by her parents and escapes her isolation by drinking. Luke...
 
 
Fallout

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Fallout
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In the third book of the trilogy that includes Crank and Glass, author Ellen Hopkins returns to Kristina Snow's story of drug abuse and reveals what Kristina's children have...
 
 
Imaginary Girls

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Imaginary Girls
Fiction/Non-Fiction
After experiencing a traumatic event on the town reservoir involving a late night swimming session and a dead body of a classmate, Chloe finds herself dealing...
 
 
Joseph's Grace

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Joseph's Grace
Fiction/Non-Fiction
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound…” You are now in church, specifically at a funeral. Be prepared to feel pain. Brutal, unjust, soul-searing pain—the kind that makes you question...
 
 
Montmorency On the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?

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Montmorency On the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?
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Once a bottom dwelling criminal, our gallant man, Montmorency, is now teamed with Lord Fox-Selwyn as a secret agent doing work on behalf of the crown. It's Victorian...
 
 
My Brother's Keeper

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My Brother's Keeper
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High school freshman, Toby Malone, is desperately trying to get some kind of control over the nightmare that his family has become. His father gone, Toby's mother is...
 
 
Punkzilla

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Punkzilla
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Fourteen-year old Jamie is AWOL from military school and his parents and is making his way from Portland, Oregon, to Memphis, Tennessee to see his 27-year old gay brother,...
 
 
Raiders Night

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Raiders Night
Fiction/Non-Fiction
This is a very powerful book for very mature teens. Matt is a team captain on the Raiders football team. He gets buzzed on Vicodin and booze, and takes...
 
 
Shine

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Shine
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Passionate, powerful, and poignant, this novel will cause a cacophony in libraries, book stores, blogs, and hopefully, even forward-thinking classrooms. Myracle leaves her girl/chick-lit earlier novels behind her, and...
 
 
Ship Breaker

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Ship Breaker
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Nailer is a ship breaker on Bright Sands Beach along the Gulf Coast in a globally-warmed and resource-depleted future. He works with his light crew, scavenging the skeletons...
 
 
Shooting Star

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Shooting Star
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Grantland Rice If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? Vince Lombardi Yes, for college...
 
 
Slam!

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Slam!
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Sometimes, all a guy has is his three-point shot, and, in this case, seventeen-year-old Greg Harris, has a lot of great moves on the basketball court. He has been...
 
 
Something Like Hope

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Something Like Hope
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Shavonne is 17 and in a juvenile detention center. We first meet her in an isolated cell, as a result of starting a fight with...
 
 

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St. Iggy
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Iggy’s parents are addicts. Iggy was born addicted. He doesn’t learn easily and is often misunderstood and because of this, he’s up for expulsion. His mom has disappeared (again)...
 
 
The Clearing

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The Clearing
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Amy needs a fresh start for her senior year of high school. Leaving an abusive relationship behind in Seattle, she moves to a tiny town...
 
 
 
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