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2) Pinned
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
January 2021.
Language
English
Description
Turned out of the only home she has known, Charlese Jones is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking, and while she is frightened, she remains determined to bring herself and her fellow victims out of danger.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
6) Money hungry
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Duck and Cat have a problem -- Cat makes Duck sneeze! 'I think-achoo!-I'm allergic to you,' Duck declares. Hilarity ensues as Cat keeps trying to solve the problem -- but Duck keeps sneezing! Is Duck really allergic to Cat or is something else going on?" --
12) Fresh ink
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--
