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The Looking Glass Wars by Call Number: F BEDWhen she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
The Gunslinger by Call Number: F KINRoland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic man in black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest.
The Night Circus by Call Number: F MORA circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
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What If? by Call Number: 500 MUNThe creator of the webcomic xkcd.com provides hilarious and scientifically informative answers to questions that can never be physically solved, but are fun to think about.
The Rap Year Book by Call Number: 782.42 SERThis book takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present, discussing, debating, and deconstructing the most important rap song year by year.
Michael Jordan by Call Number: GN 921 JORIn graphic novel format looks at the life and career of basketball player Michael Jordan.
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The Belles by Call Number: F CLAIn a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world.
The Young Elites by Call Number: F LUAdelina Amouteru survived the blood fever, a deadly illness that killed many, but left others with strange markings and supernatural powers. Cast out by her family, Adelina joins the secret society of the Young Elites and discovers her own dangerous abilities.
Beasts Made of Night by Call Number: F ONYAfter he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city, and he must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life.
An Ember in the Ashes by Call Number: F TAHPublication Date: 2016-02-09Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
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Rebel Belle by Call Number: F HAWSeventeen-year-old Harper Price's charmed life is turned upside down when she discovers she's been given magical powers in order to protect her school nemesis David Stark, who's an Oracle.
Shadowshaper by Call Number: F OLDWhen the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
American Born Chinese by Call Number: GN F YANAlternates interrelated stories about three characters, including a Chinese American trying to participate in popular culture; a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worshipped as a god; and a teenager who is so ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior that he changes schools.
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How Beautiful the Ordinary by Call Number: SC HOWPresents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.
How They Met, and Other Stories by Call Number: SC LEVA collection of eighteen stories describing the surprises, sacrifices, doubts, pain, and joy of falling in love.
Summer Love by Call Number: SC SUMA collection of nine short stories that feature characters who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
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Decelerate Blue by Call Number: GN F RAPgirl who thinks the rapid-fire, hyperkinetic culture of the country is counter-productive, is recruited into a resistance movement where the mode of survival is taking things...slow.
Paper Girls by Call Number: GN F VAUIn the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this ... series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.
Spill Zone by Call Number: GN F WESYears after the devastation that killed her parents, scarred her sister, and destroyed her city, Addison takes a job from an eccentric collector that forces her to break her own rules of survival.
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Born Confused by Call Number: F DESAs Dimple Lala turns seventeen, she realizes that life is about to become more complex as her best friend starts pulling away and her parents try to find a suitable boyfriend for Dimple, despite the fact that she is not interested.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Call Number: F GOOA disaster in romance, high school senior Desi Lee decides to tackle her flirting failures by watching Korean television dramas, where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten.
The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love by Call Number: F TASGraham Posner is trying to get his best friend, Roxana, to fall in love with him by planning the perfect weekend for her at Comic-Con.
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After by Call Number: F EFAIn complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
If You Find Me by Call Number: F MURLiving in a broken-down camper hidden in a forest, fifteen year-old Carey and her younger sister, Jenessa, just have each other. After their mentally ill mother disappears for good and they are put into foster care, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, and find the reason why Jenessa has not spoken in over a year.
The Hate U Give by Call Number: F THOAfter witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Call Number: 305.24 SMIA prominent journalist and contributing writer to The Nation magazine describes his education and the experiences of black masculinity against a backdrop of the Obama administration, the death of Trayvon Martin, the career of LeBron James and other pivotal influences that have shaped race relations in today's America.
The Fire This Time by Call Number: 305.89 FIRA collection of essays addressing the history and predicament of race in an attempt to envision a better future.
The New Jim Crow by Call Number: 364.97 ALEArgues that mass incarceration of African- and Latino Americans in the United States is a form of social control, and contends the civil rights community needs to become more active in protecting the rights of criminals.
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Endangered by Call Number: F GILWhen Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises.
Love Is the Drug by Call Number: F JOHEmily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
Perfect Liars by Call Number: F REISociety girl with a secret, Andrea Faraday seems to be the perfect girl with the perfect life until her parents disappear. Learning she shares a common enemy with them, she joins forces with the juvenile delinquents at Justice Academy to set things right.
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Death of Innocence by Call Number: 364.13 TILThe mother of Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 murder ignited the civil rights movement, discusses the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the accused killers, and her struggle to overcome her grief.
The Devil in the White City by Call Number: CH 364.15 LARAn account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.
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Ashes by Call Number: F BICAlex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
In the After by Call Number: F LUNIn a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.
Rot and Ruin by Call Number: F MABIn a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.
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Americanized by Call Number: 305.89 SAEIn San Jose, California, in the 1990s, teenaged Sara keeps a diary of life as an Iranian American and her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants.
The Lines We Cross by Call Number: F ABDA story about the power of choosing tolerance by the award-winning author of Does My Head Look Big in This? finds basketball enthusiast Michael attending anti-immigration rallies with his parents until a friendship with a Muslim refugee newcomer from Afghanistan compels him to question his family's politics.
The Sun Is Also a Star by Call Number: F YOONatasha is a girl who believes in science and facts. Daniel has always been a good son and good student. But when he sees Natasha he forgets all that and believes there is something extraordinary in store for both of them.
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The Darkest Minds by Call Number: F BRASixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children.
The House of the Scorpion by Call Number: F FARIn a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Eve and Adam by Call Number: F GRAWith the help of her geneticist mother at Spiker Biotech Laboratory, sixteen-year-old Eve Spiker recovers incredibly quickly from the life-threatening injuries she suffered during an accident, and upon becoming friends with handsome teenage lab assistant Solo, the two make discoveries about what is really going on at the laboratory.
Uglies by Call Number: F WESJust before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
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Books are in alphabetical order by title.
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Call Number: F CLEWhen war is declared Mary North signs up at the War Office, where she is made a teacher. Tom Shaw and his roommate Alistair enlist. When Mary and Alistair meet love and war tests them in ways they could never imagine.
Salt to the Sea by Call Number: F SEPAs World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.
The Book Thief by Call Number: F ZUSTrying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Tankborn by Call Number: F SANKayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered non-human slaves known as GENs, fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets about the creation of GENs, and in the process find out what it means to be human.
Orleans by Call Number: F SMISet in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever.
World of Wakanda by Call Number: GN F BLAWhile Midnight Angels Ayo and Aneka, recruited into the elite Wakandan task force Dora Milaje, are assigned to protect Queen Shuri, King T'Challa lies with bedfellows so dark that disgrace is inevitable; plus, the full origins of the People's mysterious leader, Zenzi, is revealed.
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Three Dark Crowns by Call Number: F BLAOn an island where a set of triplets are born in every generation, three sisters, all equal heirs to the crown and possessor of magic, must now fight for the title in a game of life or death.
Court of Fives by Call Number: F ELLWhen a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
The Crown's Game by Call Number: F SKYThe tsar of Russia sets up a duel between the country's only two enchanters where the winner becomes the tsar's most respected adviser and the loser is executed.
If you like Love, Hate, and Other Filters
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Saints and Misfits by Call Number: F ALIFifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.- Born Confused by Call Number: F DESAs Dimple Lala turns seventeen, she realizes that life is about to become more complex as her best friend starts pulling away and her parents try to find a suitable boyfriend for Dimple, despite the fact that she is not interested.
All We Have Left by Call Number: F MILIn interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.
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Dove Arising by Call Number: F BAOOn a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government.
Defy the Stars by Call Number: F GRATeenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
Blood Red Road by Call Number: F YOUIn a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
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When We Collided by Call Number: F LORCan seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Call Number: F NESThe best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school, and an elusive pretty girl.
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Call Number: F TOTAdam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love.
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