Shabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: February 2015 is the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's death. Written by a powerful team: Malcolm X's daughter and YA favorite Kekla Magoon. A gripping story of adolescence based on the true story of a larger-than-life figure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC SHASands, Kevin
Summary: "Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANOliver, Ben
Summary: A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC OLISummary: "On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILSpencer, Renè
Summary: Two children lost at sea must overcome a language barrier if they want to find a way home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALEWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN WILWatson, Cristy
Summary: After Kevin spends over two years in juvie, for a joyriding accident that seriously injured a pedestrian, his parole officer suggests that he apply for early parole, but Kevin realizes it would be hard for him to survive on the outside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2019Patterson, James
Summary: Rafe and Jimmy, two misunderstood 'troublemakers,' are finally up to something good. They're in charge of a huge celebration of books and reading. But when a small issue snowballs into a big problem that threatens to derail the whole event, they need to work fast to keep things on track! And the best part? Rafe and Jimmy are joined by the funniest storytellers they know, including Jamie Grimm...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PATGantos, Jack
Summary: In his family's new rental home on a down-at-the heels street in sun-beaten Miami -- with dog-eating alligators in the canal out back, a dangerously attractive girl across the road, and the unhinged Pagoda family next door -- fourteen-year-old Jack is adrift, losing a sense of who he is and what he's all about. Which is why he ends up trying to morph himself into someone he's not, that someone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GANGlasheen, Kate
Summary: In 1980s Troy, New York, nonbinary teenager Claire's stint in court-ordered rehab may be exactly what they need to unpack all the bad they have experienced--if they can stay sober in a world seemingly never made for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GLARaúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUHeikkilä, Cecilia
Summary: Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SALNorthrop, Michael.
Summary: When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NORGemeinhart, Dan
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strikekills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction GemRyan, Pam Muñoz.
Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH RYAMontague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: Set in an alternate version of Queens, N.Y., fifteen-year-old Violetta must participate in the Trials, a series of tests meant to push her to the edge, to atone for her sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAKNijkamp, Marieke
Summary: A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIJWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When the children uncover a strange puzzle in a friend's back yard, it's the start of a "spy game" leading to gold. But first they must make sense of an old photo and a riddle, and learn just who is behind this mystery within a mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARRusu, Meredith
Summary: George y Richard tienen dinosaurios de juguetes, pero no quieren compartir. ¿Podr?n la Cerdita Peppa y la Coneja Rebecca ense?arlos a ser amables el uno con el otro? Un cuento sobre compartir, con pegatinas, basado en la popular serie de televisi?n de Nick Jr.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018