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42) Hearts unbroken
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When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
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Agnostic and anti-social Jade Fulton and Ethan Garrett--star athlete, boyfriend to the most popular girl in school, and a devout Christian--are locked in their school's aerobics room overnight. Finding that they are both different from the labels they have given each other, Ethan and Jade spend hours arguing, philosophizing, and playing games to pass the time. In the morning they go back to their normal lives, but neither can shake the new feelings...
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It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments--even the physical violence--she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she's built up protective walls and refuses...
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Joshua has had a crush on Sophia forever. But he's sure she doesn't know he exists, and working up the courage to get on her radar is hard. So he uses his magic tricks to catch her eye--a ploy that seems to be backfiring. He'll need to change his approach if he has any chance of getting the girl of his dreams to fall for him.
46) The poet X
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours her frustration onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers - especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class. With Mami's determination to force her daughter...
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A continuation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Buffy's niece Frankie is trying to survive her sophomore year in high school and make the world a better place. When she's called upon to save the world, she needs to dig deep to find her true power.
48) Cursed
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"Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent juvenile inflammatory disease diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school."--Provided by publisher.
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"Grace Carter's mother, GG, is everything teenage Grace is not. GG is glamorous and breezy, while Grace is a low-key dreamer. The two may share a name, but that's where the similarities stop. With nothing much in common, the two hardly speak to each other. Then one day GG is just... gone. Cameras descend on their house, news shows speculate about what might have happened, and Grace's family struggles to find a new rhythm as they wait for answers....
50) This boy
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"Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and “wins” at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe -- oh god, please -- he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a...
51) Ace of spades
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Almost as soon as two black private school students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are chosen to be senior class prefects, an anonymous bully named Aces begins revealing private information about them that both embarrasses them and threatens their futures at elite colleges. When the bullying turns serious, Devon and Chiamaka unite to find out who is behind the threats.