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41) Perfect
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English
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Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2023 Caldecott & Newbery Awards (SCPL-YS)
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
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2023 Caldecott & Newbery Awards (SCPL-YS)
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
44) Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1
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English
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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
45) The poet X
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Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
46) Rhyme schemer
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Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
K&T - National Poetry Month
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
K&T - National Poetry Month
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
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A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.
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2023 Caudill Award Nominees
BBD Black History Month
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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BBD Black History Month
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ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
48) White Rose
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English
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Historical Reads
OBD YA Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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Historical Reads
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Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Celebrate Deaf Culture
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
OBD Reading Colors Your World Chapter Books - YOUTH
Celebrate Deaf Culture
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
OBD Reading Colors Your World Chapter Books - YOUTH
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Olivia has been Macy McMillan's best friend ever since Macy transferred to Hamiliton Elementary from Braeside School for the Deaf. But then their sixth grade teacher assigned that embarrassing family tree project, and Olivia made a joke about Macy's father, and now neither girl is speaking--signing--to the other. It couldn't have happened at a worse time. With her mother getting married and an ugly For Sale sign jammed into their yard, Macy could...
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"Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
51) Swing
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English
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Sports Books (Brochure) - YOUTH
OBD YA Sports - YOUTH
YA School Life
OBD Sports Books (Brochure) - YOUTH
OBD YA Sports - YOUTH
YA School Life
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"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
52) Salt the water
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English
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
October Buzzworthy Books Teen
Transgender Awareness Week 2023: Teens
October Buzzworthy Books Teen
Transgender Awareness Week 2023: Teens
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A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
53) Spin
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English
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Staff Picks - August 2023
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Staff Picks - August 2023
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Sixteen-year-old Arachne turns to weaving for solace, but when word spreads of her skill she is confronted by the goddess Athena and the two enter a weaving contest that results in transformation and redemption.
54) Golden girl
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English
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
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When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
55) Lifeboat 12
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English
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
If You Like...Hatchet
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
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If You Like...Hatchet
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
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In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
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English
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Fifth Grade
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
Fifth Grade
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
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Told in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.--
57) Saving Red
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Right before winter break, fourteen-year-old Molly Rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate in Santa Monica's annual homeless count, just to get her school's community service requirement out of the way. But when she ends up meeting Red, a spirited homeless girl only a few years older than she is, Molly makes it her mission to reunite her with her family in time for Christmas. This turns out to be extremely difficult-because Red refuses to...
58) Punching the air
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English
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
60) Wave
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When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
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