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21) Dough boys
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Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.
22) Nowhere special
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Twelve-year-old Stan and Elpidia find hope in an unexpected friendship as they navigate challenging family circumstances and a dangerous local gang in the desolate Southern California desert.
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In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
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These violent delights volume 1
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English
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NPM - NPMS 8th grade Fiction
NPM - YA AAPI Authors
NPM - YA Around the World
NPM - NPMS 8th grade Fiction
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NPM - YA Around the World
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In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
26) Your corner dark
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Seventeen-year-old Frankie Green yearns to leave Jamaica and study in the United States, but when his father is shot he is forced to give up his scholarship and join his uncle Joe's gang.
27) On the hook
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"Hector has always worked hard and minded his own business. He wants to be captain of his school's chess team, go to college, and help his family make their way to a better life someday. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing. From that day forward, Hector's death...
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Thirteen-year-old Socko and his mother leave their cramped, unsafe inner city apartment and move to a house in a new suburban development where they plan to care for Socko's crotchety great-grandfather, but when they arrive they discover that the rest of the homes are unfinished, they are the only residents of Moon Ridge Estates, and that trouble has followed them.
29) Duty or desire
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In this adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Alejandro and Chrissie, teens from opposite sides of Minneapolis, are drawn together over their shared experience of brutal police attacks, but while Alejandro struggles with divided loyalties between his duty to his family and crew and his obsessive love, Chrissie debates whether to pursue justice or just move on.
31) The Black Dragon
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Mysterium volume 1
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Talented magician Danny, who is half-Chinese, half-British, and dwarf strongman Zamora try to find the connection between the disastrous end of the circus Mysterium, where Danny's performer parents were killed, and the disappearance of his guardian aunt, who is investigating sinister gangs in Hong Kong.
32) City of orphans
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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
33) Concrete rose
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"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
34) Bloody Seoul
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[2019]
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First edition.
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Supremely loyal, sixteen-year-old Rocky expects to take over his father's notorious gang, Three Star Pa, one day but after catching his father in a lie, discovers they are not as alike as he believed.
35) Becoming Beatriz
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"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
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2009.
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When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.
37) Spell starter
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Caster volume 2
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Coerced into working for the sector's powerful gang leader Saint Willow, Aza Wu again gets caught up in underground magic tournaments, this time using magic she cannot control.
Aza Wu regained her magic-- but it has come at a great cost. After the Tournament of Casters, Aza is able to pay off her parents' debts. Unfortunately, the cost of the gathering spell she used to strip Finch of his magic has put her permanently in the employ of the gang leader....
38) City of speed
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"In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular aerial races that draw in cheering crowds by the tens of thousands. Abel is at just such a race when he witnesses the unthinkable. A long-shot competitor pulls...
39) Raccoon rampage
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"The Hole-in-the-Tree gang are the most daring raccoons in town. But when they carry out the biggest, boldest heist of their lives, they find a posse on their trail--and after their tails! Will these cubs lose their cool on the run or have a wild time in the big, bright city?"--Page 4 of cover.
40) Fatal frost
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Defenders of justice volume 01
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U.S. Marshal Mercy Brennan's life is in danger and her ex-boyfriend Deputy U.S. Marshal Mark St. Laurent is assigned to protect her, but when an unexpected ice storm arrives, they realize that survival may no longer be guaranteed.
U.S. Marshal Mercy Brennan followed in her father's footsteps in a law enforcement career. When she's assigned to a joint task force with the St. Louis PD, it puts her back into contact with her father-- and in the sights...
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