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English
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"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 gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
2) Pony
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English
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Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool...who happens to be a ghost. When a pony shows up at his door, Silas makes the courageous decision to leave his home and embark on a perilous journey to find his father. Along the way, he will face his fears to unlock the secrets of his past and explore...
Author
Series
Iggy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Relates three times that nine-year-old Iggy got into trouble, two of which he does not regret and one for which he is very, very sorry.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these ten easy-to-read stories there is a mixed-up cow that says "miaow," a mole called Noel who plays rock 'n' roll in a hole, and a boy named Mike who rides a bike with a very big spike!
7) Infamous
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick's saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume... Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He's learned to annihilate zombies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
J.D. the Kid Barber has already won a barber battle and appeared on local TV. Now he's the youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta!
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now that he is Ma's apprentice Jax is finding himself mixed up with all sorts of magical doings, like taking care of a phoenix egg which is going to hatch soon, trying to bring back the creatures Sis stole, finding his grandfather, and convincing Sis, the guardian, to reunite the two realms--and hopefully living to see Brooklyn again.
11) Game changer
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English
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After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
Author
Series
Nate volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T."
14) Monster and boy
Author
Series
Monster and Boy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Monster (who lives under the bed) meets Boy (who sleeps in the bed), Boy starts to scream--and Monster promptly swallows him. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship!--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever heard of Gravity? No, not gravity, the centrifugal force pulling us to the Earth. I'm talking about Gravity--the greatest ball player to ever lace up a pair of sneakers."--
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Portico Reeves, or Stuntboy the greatest superhero people have never heard of, tries to manage his frets and navigate his new normal with divorced parents, bullies in his building, and a newfound friend.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
20) I got next
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins [a] competition ready to try his best"--
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