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Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of a teenage girl's recovery, in a psychiatric hospital, from anorexia, told in poetry"--
When fourteen-year-old Evie is diagnosed with anorexia, she begins the slow process of recovery with the help of caregivers and peers who are battling their own disordered-eating habits.
Author
Publisher
Little Island
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A warm and loving story about how anon-binary person comes to understand and accept themselves by an award-winning queer author. Every morning, when Annie's moms open up their bookshop, there's a pile of books on the counter, waiting for the right reader to come and find them. But one day, there's a book nobody comes for. Nobodyever comes, and each day the book gets lonelier, and the bookshop becomes an unhappy place. Who can the book be for, and...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Blending the ancient myth of Theseus with the quest of a modern-day teen searching for his father, this unputdownable novel-in-verse follows 17-year-old Theo as he realizes he must be resourceful and strong like his mythical hero after he is tricked and double-crossed by a search-agency scam artist and a depraved lawyer.
9) Dear Mothman
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude"--
12) Amber & Clay
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse relates the story of Rhaskos and Melisto, one a common slave and the other a spoiled aristocrat, who are bound together by fate and form an unlikely friendship that crosses the boundary of life and death.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"As the days go on, nine-year-old Eleanor realizes that maybe being at summer camp isn't so bad after all, and is full of special surprises"--
15) Garvey's choice
Author
Publisher
Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
16) Death's country
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Moving to Miami, Andres, who made a deal with Death for new life, meets Renee and Llora and embarks on a polyamorous relationship, but when Llora falls into a coma, he and Renee journey into the underworld to retrieve her spirit, which comes with a high price.
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
18) Eb & Flow
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Ebony and De'Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior--to their families, to each other, and ultimately to themselves"--
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
In 1980, ten-year-old Anna and her parents finalize their immigration from Taiwan to California, and as she settles in to her new home, Anna is confronted by the stark difference between her dreams and her reality.
20) And then, boom!
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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