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261) How we became wicked
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A viral disease called 'the wickedness' plagues the world, and sixteen-year-olds Astrid and Natalie are two of the only people immune. The girls live in separate, isolated communities, but recent encounters with wicked people link their stories in unexpected ways"--
A plague is pulsing through the world. Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don't...
262) A little like waking
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While stuck in a dream, eighteen-year-old Zelda explores the far reaches of the dreamscape with a timid boy named Langston, but as they grow closer and closer, they discover truths neither of them wants to face.
263) The hammer of Thor
Author
Series
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for...
264) Both of me
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When her carry-on bag is accidentally switched with Elias's identical pack, Clara uses the luggage tag to track down her things. At that address she discovers there is not one Elias Phinn, but two"--
265) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
266) Dead flip
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Cori and Maz, once inseparable best friends, reunite to solve the mystery of what happened to their other friend Sam--who disappeared five years ago and has now returned, not having aged at all"--
267) All my rage
Author
Language
English
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Green Mountain Book Award 2023-2024
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DAML Staff Picks 2023
Green Mountain Book Award 2023-2024
Description
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
268) Calvin
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.
269) Anne of Green Gables
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An unflinching story about Shania, a white girl who, after moving to a gentrifying city, reckons with her role in racism there, the historical and present day effects of white supremacy, and the danger in silence"--
After her grandmother passes, Shania moves to the gentrifying town of Blue Rock and is thrust into Bard, the city's wealthiest private school. At Bard, race is both invisible and hypervisible, and Shania's new friends are split on what...
271) Whiteout
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Atlanta, just before Christmas, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life during the storm of the century, which results in a magical moment that changes everything.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last - even getting there is an adventure in itself! In this sequel to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Harry keeps hearing strange voices, sinister and dark messages appear on the wall, and then his friend Ron's sister disappears. Winner of the 1998 Smarties Gold Award.
When...
274) We are not free
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
275) The Siren
Author
Language
English
Description
Kahlen was rescued by the Ocean and since then has been repaying her debt as a Siren luring stranger to their deaths. She enjoys being on land yearning for her time as a Siren to be over and join in the laughing and living. Kahlen then meets Akinli, and her heart is filled with love and a desire to be human once again, but if the Ocean finds out it could spell trouble for everyone involved.
Author
Series
Simon Snow volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Language
English
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Description
"Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips
When her twin sister reaches social media stardom, Moon Fuentez accepts her fate to be nothing more than her sister's camerawoman. Then Moon takes a summer job as the "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and her fate begins...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to Toronto's east-end townhouse Trisha and...
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