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Fourteen-year-old misfit Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.
43) Lifeboat 12
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In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
44) Forget me not
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When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
45) Some girls bind
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Genderqueer adolescent Jamie and their gay friend, Levi, come out to Jamie's brother Steve, who encourage both of them to seek acceptance from friends and family.
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - National Book Award
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JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - National Book Award
NPM - JUV GRL W
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
51) Dust of Eden
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"Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years"--
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Eleanor Kane books volume 3
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A new girl at school throws nine-year-old Eleanor's relationship with her best friend Pearl into disarray.
53) Tricks
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
54) Vanilla
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Told in a series of blank verse poems, two boys Van (called Vanilla) and Hunter tell of their relationship which began before they were teenagers, but foundered in high school, mostly because Hunter thinks they should be having sex and Vanilla is not so sure.
55) A slip of a girl
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"Set during the Irish Land Wars (1879-1882) this novel in verse follows Anna Mallon through a series of tragedies as her mother dies, older sibling immigrate to America, and she and her father and sister with special needs are about to be evicted from their farm"--
57) Samira surfs
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[2021]
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After months of rebuilding a new life in Bangladesh with her family, Samira decides to become a Bengali surfer girl of Cox's Bazar, in this novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear to power.
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Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.
60) The moon within
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion; she must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes.
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