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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops, it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them."
82) Memory maze
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Jackson Opus and his family have been forced into hiding because his identity as a powerful young hypnotist has been leaked out--but his enemy, Dr. Mako, is still out to find him to use his mesmerizing skills for evil purposes.
83) Honestly Ben
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
84) Defy
Author
Series
Defy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
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.
85) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 9
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.
87) Why am I me?
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
88) Scrivener's moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
90) Houdini and me
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
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.
91) Things Hoped For
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Description
Gewns grandfather has disappeared from their home in New York City, but he's left her a phone message telling her not to wrry and to let no one know he's gone. But her new freedom actually seems to have some benefits. But people keep asking about her grandpa and she doesnt knwo what to say, which brings the NYPD carshing into her scene. Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school,...
92) Clone trouble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The Gamer, a.k.a. thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant, must think fast to defeat criminal mastermind Cynthia Cyber's latest creation, Gamerton, an evil clone of The Gamer who can match him power for power.
94) Invisible
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Description
"Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain Sara: the loner Dayara: the tough kid Nico: the rich kid And Miguel: the athlete And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same... just five Spanish-speaking kids. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help,...
95) Still a gorilla
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Willy the Gorilla imitates the other animals at the zoo, but despite pretending he remains always a gorilla.
96) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
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"The Margrave of Thornbeck has two weeks to find a noble bride. What will happen when he learns he has fallen for Avelina, a lovely servant girl in disguise? But something else is afoot in the castle. Something sinister that could have far worse--far deadlier--consequences. Will Avelina and Lord Thornbeck be able to stop the evil plot?"--
98) The clone codes
Author
Series
Clone codes trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.
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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...