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TEEN NOVEL ACEVEDO
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TEEN NOVEL ACEVEDO
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TEEN CD NOVEL ACEVEDO
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TEEN CD NOVEL ACEVEDO
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions--doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen,...
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TEEN NOVEL ANDERSON
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TEEN NOVEL ANDERSON
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Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
Jack Morton has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he'd do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs...
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Inheritance games volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Caudill Award
TEEN NOVEL BARNES INHERITANCE 1
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TEEN NOVEL BARNES INHERITANCE 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Caudill Award
TEEN PLAYAWAY BARNES INHERITANCE 1
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TEEN PLAYAWAY BARNES INHERITANCE 1
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TEEN CD NOVEL BARNES INHERITANCE 1
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TEEN CD NOVEL BARNES INHERITANCE 1
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Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles,...
4) Lovely War
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
NOVEL BERRY
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NOVEL BERRY
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL BERRY
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TEEN NOVEL BERRY
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The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year...
6) Golden arm
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In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty--one strike at a time. By "a premier author of provocative YA sports novels" (The Bulletin). Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When...
7) Stepsister
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TEEN NOVEL DONNELLY
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TEEN NOVEL DONNELLY
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TEEN PLAYAWAY DONNELLY
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TEEN PLAYAWAY DONNELLY
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN CD NOVEL DONNELLY
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TEEN CD NOVEL DONNELLY
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Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
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Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and steer clear of her unstable mother. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame. With a borrowed video camera,...
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TEEN NOVEL GILES
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TEEN NOVEL GILES
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"Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she's finally available. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del's right behind her. Though he quickly realizes he's inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge. His dad thinks his wires are crossed, and his best friend, Qwan, doesn't believe any girl is worth the long game. But Del's not about to lose his dream girl, and that's where...
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TEEN GN GULLEDGE
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TEEN GN GULLEDGE
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A bold and original YA graphic novel about battling your inner doubts and fears-and finding your genius. Sometimes, the world is too much for Mona Starr. She's sweet, geeky, and creative, but it's hard for her to make friends and connect with other people. She's like a lot of sensitive teenagers-but in the hands of graphic novelist Laura Lee Gulledge, Mona's struggle with depression takes on a vivid, concrete form. Mona calls it her Matter. The Matter...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Teen Lincoln Nominees
TEEN NOVEL HERBACH
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TEEN NOVEL HERBACH
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Teen Lincoln Nominees
TEEN CD NOVEL HERBACH
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TEEN CD NOVEL HERBACH
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While recovering from a game-related concussion, football star Isaiah wonders what his life would be like without the game.
12) They went left
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TEEN NOVEL HESSE
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TEEN NOVEL HESSE
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"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
Germany, 1945. The Gross-Rosen concentration camp have been liberated, but nothing feels over to Zofia Lederman. Three years ago she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else-- parents,...
13) Refraction
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"After an attack on earth, all reflective surfaces become weapons to release monsters, causing a planet-wide ban on mirrors. Despite the danger, the demand rises, and 17-year-old Marty Callahan becomes a distributor in an illegal mirror trade--until he's caught by the mayor's son, whose slate is far from clean. Both of them are exiled for their crimes to one of the many abandoned cities overrun by fog. But they soon realize their thoughts influence...
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TEEN NOVEL JOHNSON
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TEEN NOVEL JOHNSON
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
15) Aurora rising
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Aurora cycle volume 1
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TEEN NOVEL KAUFMAN AURORA 1
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TEEN NOVEL KAUFMAN AURORA 1
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Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
After rescuing a girl who was trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries from interdimensional space, eighteen-year-old Aurora Academy graduate Tyler Jones is swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
16) Skyhunter
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Skyhunter duology volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Teen Lincoln Nominees
TEEN NOVEL LU SKYHUNTER 1
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TEEN NOVEL LU SKYHUNTER 1
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TEEN PLAYAWAY LU SKYHUNTER 1
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TEEN PLAYAWAY LU SKYHUNTER 1
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The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable....
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
NOVEL MAFI
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NOVEL MAFI
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL MAFI
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TEEN NOVEL MAFI
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2002. A year after 9/11, it's an extremely turbulent time politically for Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments, even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Now she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. When she meets Ocean James, he seems...
18) Our last echoes
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People have been vanishing from an island called Bitter Rock for decades, Sophie learns after her own mother disasppears in 2003 and she receives a mysterious phonecall. Following the trail, the oddly-familiar place seems to explain her impossible dream -- memory? -- of drowning and being rescued as an infant. There may be other answers here, and Sophie may be the only one who can unlock them...or she may just be the next victim.
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY MCCREARY
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY MCCREARY
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"Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later. During a difficult time in junior high, he started journaling,...
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Merciful Crow volume 1
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TEEN NOVEL OWEN MERCIFUL 1
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TEEN NOVEL OWEN MERCIFUL 1
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TEEN PLAYAWAY OWEN MERCIFUL 1
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TEEN PLAYAWAY OWEN MERCIFUL 1
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Fie, a sixteen-year-old chieftain from a lowly cast of mercy-killers, must rely on her wits and bone magic to smuggle the crown prince of Sabor to safety.