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1) The cousins
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies. In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Jory, whose face is partly paralyzed, and his sister Liv, a former reality television performer and child beauty pageant contestant, join forces to search for their missing parents.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
7) Kween
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen's journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo. Soma Kear's verses have gone viral. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think her slam poetry video through. All she knew was that her rhymes were urgent. On fire. An expression of where she was, and that place was a hot mess. Following her Ba's deportation back to Cambodia, everything's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final memories together. Except Bronwyn is miserable. Her grandmother is dying, everyone is standoffish, and she can't...
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