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1) Be prepared
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JUV GRAPHIC NOVEL BROSGOL
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JUV GRAPHIC NOVEL BROSGOL
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A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.
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City of ghosts volume 1
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JUV FICTION SCHWAB
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JUV FICTION SCHWAB
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION SCHWAB
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION SCHWAB
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Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
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JUV FICTION STONE
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JUV FICTION STONE
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION STONE
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION STONE
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"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
4) Free lunch
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Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 1
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"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
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JUV FICTION MARKS
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JUV FICTION MARKS
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION MARKS
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION MARKS
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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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JUV FICTION WILLIAMS
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JUV FICTION WILLIAMS
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"There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant--even her own family. And #61: Because her family is always being put out of their house, belongings laid out on the sidewalk for the world to see. When your dad is a gambling addict and loses the rent money every month, eviction is a regular occurrence. What's not...
7) Ghost boys
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JUV FICTION RHODES
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JUV FICTION RHODES
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JUV LARGE TYPE FICTION RHODES
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JUV LARGE TYPE FICTION RHODES
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION RHODES
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION RHODES
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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--Provided by publisher.
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JUV FICTION DAY
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JUV FICTION DAY
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION DAY
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION DAY
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"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
9) Inkling
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JUV FICTION OPPEL
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JUV FICTION OPPEL
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION OPPEL
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION OPPEL
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When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Biography
JUV BIO NOAH
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JUV BIO NOAH
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"Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government. This fascinating memoir blends drama,...
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JUV FICTION CALLENDE
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JUV FICTION CALLENDE
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Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid...
12) The line tender
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JUV FICTION ALLEN
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JUV FICTION ALLEN
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"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier"--
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JUV FICTION DEE
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JUV FICTION DEE
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When boys in her class start touching seventh-grader Mila and making her feel uncomfortable, she does not want to tell her friends or mother until she reaches her breaking point.
14) The okay witch
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Okay witch volume 1
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JUV GRAPHIC NOVEL STEINKEL
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JUV GRAPHIC NOVEL STEINKEL
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When thirteen-year-old Moth Hush learns she comes from a long line of witches, she unlocks a hidden witch world, where secrets from generations past unravel and the heart of her town and her family are threatened.
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JUV FICTION ATHAIDE
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JUV FICTION ATHAIDE
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In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972. Asha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. African. Girl. Boy. Short. Tall. But when Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe...
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JUV FICTION WARGA
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JUV FICTION WARGA
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JUV CD FICTION WARGA
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JUV CD FICTION WARGA
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION WARGA
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION WARGA
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"A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America...
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Coyote Sunrise volume 1
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JUV FICTION GEMEINHA
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JUV FICTION GEMEINHA
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Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 940.530899 TAKEI
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 940.530899 TAKEI
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT 791.4502 TAKEI
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YOUNG ADULT 791.4502 TAKEI
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YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL TAKEI
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YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL TAKEI
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"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
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JUV FICTION SLOAN
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JUV FICTION SLOAN
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION SLOAN
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION SLOAN
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Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
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"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII"--Provided by publisher.
As German bombs rained over England during World War II, British parents by the thousands sent their children out of the country to avoid harm's way. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the warships escorting...