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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
2) Refugee
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Jewish American Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teens
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Jewish American Heritage Month - Teens
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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
3) Frindle
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
4) Fuzzy mud
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2023-2024 Crete Public Library's 5th-6th Battle List
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
Reading Olympics Spring 2024
Wrap Yourself in a Good Book
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
Reading Olympics Spring 2024
Wrap Yourself in a Good Book
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If you go down to the woods today... Well, every child knows NOT to, don't they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy and every day she and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. And when they arrive at school they stop talking to each other - because Marshall can't be seen to be friends with a little kid like Tamaya. Especially not with Chad around. Chad-the-bully, who makes Marshall's...
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
7) Legend
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Bloomingdale Library Teen Audiobooks
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Inheritance Games Read-A-Likes
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Herget Visit October 2022
Inheritance Games Read-A-Likes
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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day -- a famous criminal, and prodigy June -- the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
8) Masterminds
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Masterminds trilogy volume 1
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
9) Nightbird
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Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
10) Goodbye stranger
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As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
11) The false prince
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For Fans of... Percy Jackson & the Olympians (SCPL-YS)
Herget Visit March 2022
High Fantasy
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Herget Visit March 2022
High Fantasy
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In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
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"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
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If you liked Devil in the White City, try these books next!
Nonfiction Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Nonfiction Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism,...
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Middle Grades)
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Middle Grades)
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Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
15) I am Princess X
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Best friends Libby Deaton and May Harper invented Princess X when they were in fifth grade, but when the car Libby is in goes off a bridge, she is presumed dead, and the story came to an end--except now, three years later, Princess X is suddenly everywhere, with a whole underground culture focused on a webcomic, and May believes her friend must be alive.
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Middle School Books (teens)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
World War II Reads
Middle School Books (teens)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
World War II Reads
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In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents.
17) Ungifted
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
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"Till now there's been no magic for Harry Potter. He lives with the miserable Dursleys at number four, Privet Drive. His room is the cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years. But then a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitiation to an incredible place called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And there he finds not only friends, flying sports on broomsticks, and magic in everything...
19) Roller girl
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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
Friendship Stories (WPL-Youth)
If You Liked...Babysitters Club
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Friendship Stories (WPL-Youth)
If You Liked...Babysitters Club
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"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"--
20) Fish in a tree
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Books with Neurodiverse Characters (SCPL-YS)
Chapter Books Focused on Inclusion and Access (SCPL-YS)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
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Chapter Books Focused on Inclusion and Access (SCPL-YS)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
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Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of....
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