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• Shackled

  a Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town That Looked Away

  Cooper, Candy J., 1955-

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  Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Diamond Bright & Broken

  Davis, Holly (Young adult author),

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  Sixteen-year-old Cadence was born with the ability to cry tears of diamonds—a secret talent her parents have abused to climb the royal ranks thanks to the infinite source of wealth. At their command, she cries diamonds to pay for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trigger

  Moore, C. G. (Christopher George),

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  An unflinching verse novel about a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted in an attack he struggles to remember. Jay wakes in a park, beaten and bruised. He can't remember what happened the night before. But he has suspicions. Jay realizes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Funny Gyal

  My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica

  Jackson, Angeline,

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  The inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica's oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice. When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flash Flood

  Prendergast, Gabrielle,

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  Foster brothers Zack and Peter pull together to survive after a flash flood leaves them stranded in an evacuated neighborhood of their riverside town.

• Abuela, Don't Forget Me

  Ogle, Rex,

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  Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Doomed

  Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream

  Florio, John, 1960-

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  Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the War : Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria

  Abouzeid, Rania

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  Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic, follows two pairs of sisters from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Truth I Can Stand

  Stokes, Mason,

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  Juniper, Wyoming high school student Ash is still reeling from his mother’s death and ostracization by his friends when his father signs him up to join the crew for a college production of Oklahoma! Ash is slowly drawn out of his shell by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Here Goes Nothing

  Ohland, Emma K.,

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  When eighteen-year-old Beatrice comes in frequent contact with neighbor Bennie, she starts to question her asexual identity, her place in her friend group and her plans for the future.

• American Murderer

  the Parasite That Haunted the South

  Jarrow, Gail,

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  Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atomic Women

  the Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

  Montillo, Roseanne,

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  They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there—meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tilted Sky

  Yao, Emei, 1968-

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  Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life? Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Theodosia Burr

  Teen Eyewitness to the Founding of the New Nation

  Quiñones, Karen Cherro, 1960-

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  This book discusses the life of Theodora Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, and her involvement in the lives of the Founding Fathers of the new United States. The book includes primary source observations pulled from Theodora's personal letters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Life in Native America

  Treuer, David,

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  Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated; if anything, it is thriving as much…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reaching for Venus

  Barnett, Maija,

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  Living in a dystopic future, Leah and her younger sister Rachel are fighting to survive in a world that's becoming increasingly unlivable. Earth's atmosphere has been poisoned by pollution, so each year the government, Terra, holds a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grapefruit Moon

  McMillan, Shirley-Anne,

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  The pressure, social and academic, is high for the teenage students of an elite secondary school in Belfast. Can poetry, friendship and a trip to Spain give them the courage to be true to themselves? Wealthy, popular Charlotte and quiet,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything We Never Had

  Ribay, Randy,

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  Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships.

• The Last Summer Before Whatever Happens Next

  a Novel

  Burke, Bee,

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  It's the summer of 1980-something, and valedictorian Claire Hart has nothing to do. Her summers have always been meticulously planned—a class here, educational camp there—so her last summer before college she quickly becomes lost in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.

  Our Story. Our Way.

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Jason Reynolds. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a…Read moreRead more of this annotation