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YOUNG ADULT FICTION GOFFNEY
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION GOFFNEY
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Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION DASS
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION DASS
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Presents a romantic, mesmerizing story of first love and second chances, all to the tunes of sweet soca music.
3) Chaos theory
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"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...
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This poison heart volume 1
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION BAYRON
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION BAYRON
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Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, even poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION THOMAS
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION THOMAS
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LARGE TYPE FICTION THOMAS
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LARGE TYPE FICTION THOMAS
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his baby momma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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"Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral . . . for all...
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION LOCKINGT
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION LOCKINGT
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When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION JOHNSON
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION JOHNSON
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Life can change in an instant. When you're wrongfully accused of a crime. When a virus shuts everything down. When the girl you love moves on. Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn't feel like coming home. His Portland, Oregon, neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying, and COVID-19 shuts down school before he can return. And Andre's suspicions about his arrest for a crime he didn't commit even taint his friendships....
9) Dear Justyce
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION STONE
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION STONE
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Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
10) Dear Martin
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION STONE
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION STONE
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Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
11) True true
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION HOOPER
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION HOOPER
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When Gil, a Black teen from Brooklyn, struggles to fit in at his primarily white Manhattan prep school, he wages a clandestine war against the racist administration, parents, and students, while working with other Black students to ensure their voices are finally heard.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION ALLEN
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION ALLEN
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Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
JUV FICTION REYNOLDS
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JUV FICTION REYNOLDS
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"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--
16) Long way down
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JUV FICTION REYNOLDS
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JUV FICTION REYNOLDS
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REYNOLDS
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"Sixty potent seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer. A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That's where...
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
BOOK CLUB 305.8009 REYNOLDS
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BOOK CLUB 305.8009 REYNOLDS
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT 305.8009 REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT 305.8009 REYNOLDS
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Oak Lawn Public Library - AV
CD 305.800973 REYNOLDS
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CD 305.800973 REYNOLDS
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT CD 305.8009 REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT CD 305.8009 REYNOLDS
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
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YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL REYNOLDS
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YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL REYNOLDS
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts, who knew Shawn, board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
19) Monster
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
20) Rise to the sun
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Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...