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  Annexed

  by Sharon Dogar

  Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex,– but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view.  What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her?   Especially with your parents and... (more)
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  Slam!

  by Walter Dean Myers

  Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He knows he's got what it takes to go all the way to the top. Slam's grades aren't so hot, though, and when his teachers jam his troubles in his face, he blows up. He also try's and try's to get his grades up so he can stay out of trouble.
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  Huge

  by Sasha Paley

  April and Wil couldn't be more different, but both of them are spending the summer at Wellness Canyon — otherwise known as fat camp. April knows that if she could just drop a little weight, she would be popular like she's always wanted. She's saved up for months to afford Wellness Canyon, which is more like a posh spa than a sleepaway camp. While April can't wait to jump into all the activities, Wil can't wait to... (more)
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  Borderline

  by Allan Stratton

  "Allan Stratton spins these otherwise ordinary lives on a dime and a secret. Borderline is as astonishing as it is all quite possible." (Rita Williams-Garcia, Coretta Scott King Honor author ) "A compelling coming-of-age novel about acceptance and fear, wrapped in a fascinating adventure/thriller/mystery. All these elements are shaken mightily in Allan Stratton's latest-as we are. (Gary D. Schmidt, New York Times... (more)
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  The Firefly Letters

  A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

  by Margarita Engle

  The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter of the house, sneaks out to join them. As the three women explore the lush countryside, they form a bond that breaks the... (more)
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  What World is Left

  by Monique Polak

  A pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland, and she and her family are deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Not only are conditions in the camp... (more)
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  Shattered

  by Eric Walters

  Walters’ novel, Shattered, includes a variety of life-changing experiences. The primary protagonists in the book are fifteen-year-old grade ten student, Ian, a middle-aged ex-military “Sarge”, aka “Jack” or “Jacques”, and an older soup kitchen manager, Mac. Ian, like Will in We All Fall Down, comes from a well-to-do family but has the baggage of feeling alienated from his parents, especially from his overly-busy... (more)
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  War Brothers

  by Sharon E. McKay

  A heart-wrenching Ugandan story about Jacob, Norman, Paul, Tony, Hannah and Oteka, children who have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to march, fight and kill as child soldiers. It is also a story of hope, bravery, loyalty and friendship.
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  Pearl of China

  by Anchee Min

  From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck. In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family, Pearl the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries.... (more)
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  July's People

  by Nadine Gordimer

  When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed.
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  White Lilacs

  by Carolyn Meyer

  Young Rose Lee Jefferson is shocked to learn that the white residents of Dillon, Texas, want to raze the city’s black enclave, Freedomtown, and build a park in its place. Rose Lee and the other residents of Freedomtown cannot bear the thought of losing their homes. But fighting the city’s plans could be costly—or even life threatening. Will the families of Freedomtown be able to save their thriving community? ... (more)
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  Life in the Fat Lane

  by Cherie Bennett

  Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet. Until she gets fat. Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp. She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation for her rapid weight gain. When she's diagnosed with a mysterious metabolic disorder that has no known cure, Lara fears she'll spend... (more)
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  Underground To Canada

  by Barbara Claassen Smucker

  'There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free ...' Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day she spends huddled in the trader's cart travelling south, or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about... (more)
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  Money Hungry: Book 2

  Begging for Change

  by Sharon G. Flake

  Raspberry Hill, who once was homeless, vowed never to end up on the streets again. To her, money equals security. But when a troubled neighborhood teenager attacks her mother, Raspberry is desperate for things in her life to change and ends up stealing from her best friend. But nothing good comes from bad money. And as her thoughts alternate between the two men in her life-as her relationship with Sato blossoms... (more)
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  Billy

  by Albert French

  Vividly capturing the heat, dust, and poverty of 1930s Mississippi, the story of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in 1937, is an unsentimental, heartrending saga of racial injustice. A first novel. Reprint.
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  I Am a Taxi

  by Deborah Ellis

  For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother’s hand-knitted goods, and to work as a “taxi,"... (more)
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  Mornings in Jenin

  by Susan Abulhawa

  The Scar of David is historic fiction about a Palestinian family from the village of Ein Hod, which was emptied of its inhabitants by the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. It is told in the first person by Amal, who is born into that family in a UN-administered refugee camp in Jenin, where her family would eventually die waiting, or fighting, to return to their beloved Palestine. Set in lap of one of the... (more)
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  Drama High: Book 2

  Second Chance

  by L. Divine

  Back for another dose of high drama, Compton's sassiest, Jayd Jackson, is about to discover it really is a different world when she starts dating South Bay High's finest white boy... All Jayd Jackson wants is a drama-free year at South Bay High, a.k.a. Drama High. But it doesn't seem she's going to get it. It's only the second week of Junior year and already, Misty, her nemesis, has almost gotten her ... (more)
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  The Disappeared

  by Kim Echlin

  “A dance of words . . . <full of> beauty, grace, sensuality and power. . . . In what is a seemingly impossible feat, the form is carved perfectly to the task—the book balances on the beauty. . . . Echlin is able, by imagination and art, to take the reader on a journey through eros and evil—a journey that travels into utter darkness but does not leave us in despair. . . . Echlin has wrought a work of singular... (more)
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  Response

  by Paul Volponi

  Noah and his friends go to a predominantly white neighborhood with a plan: steal a car, sell it to a chop shop, and make some fast cash. But that never happens. Instead, Noah, a teen father, is the victim of a vicious beating that leaves him with a fractured skull. Was the attacker just protecting his turf, or did he assault Noah because he’s black? Awardwinning author Paul Volponi, known for his brutally honest... (more)