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1) Moon rising
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Peace has come to Pyrrhia . . . for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read...
2) Summerkin
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Series
Winterling volume 2
Language
English
Description
After defeating the evil Mór, Fer must compete in a contest that will either seal her fate as the ruler of the Summerlands or send her back to the human world forever.
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English
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Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They're deeply, hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at college--Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU--they're sure they'll be fine. The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected.
4) Everblaze
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Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sophie's talents are getting stronger and, with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she is determined to find her kidnappers but a daring mistake pushes her world to the edge of war, and soon she has exposed a a major conspiracy that could threaten all she loves.
5) Moonflower
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English
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Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
7) Fairest
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Series
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English
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In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
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Series
Openly straight volume 1
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English
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Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
9) I am J
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English
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J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
10) My powerful hair
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English
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Dedham's National Native American Heritage Month List (Children's Titles)
Norwood 2024 Rise - Feminist Lit For Young Readers
NPR: Books We Love 2023
Norwood 2024 Rise - Feminist Lit For Young Readers
NPR: Books We Love 2023
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After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
12) Winterling
Author
Series
Winterling volume 1
Language
English
Description
Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identitiy.
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Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found them,...
14) Shatter city
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Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
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English
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Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father. When a rebel uprising strands her in Pas, and the city comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
15) Sidekicked
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Series
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English
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"Drew Bean might be a part of a secret organization for the training of superhero sidekicks, but that doesn't mean that life is all leaping tall buildings in single bounds.Drew is possessed of super senses--his hearing, sight, taste, touch, and smell are the most powerful on the planet--making him literally the most sensitive kid in school. And then there's his best friend, Jenna--their friendship would be complicated enough if she weren't able to...
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English
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When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
17) Defy
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Series
Defy novels volume 1
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Alexa's parents were killed by a sorcerer during a raid, so she has disguised herself as a boy, joined Antion's army, and earned a place on Prince Damian's guard--but Antion is ruled by an evil king, and "Alex" must find a way to defeat him and protect her prince.
18) The list
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English
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Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
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English
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Cary Library's Teen Black Voices
Cary Library's Teen LGBTQIA Stories
Dedham's Romancing the Library 2023 YA
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Cary Library's Teen LGBTQIA Stories
Dedham's Romancing the Library 2023 YA
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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...
20) Toasty
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Toasty, a piece of toast, believes he is a dog deep down in his crumbs, but realizes he is very different from all the other dogs.
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