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NPM - YA Survival
NPM - YA Tough Topics
NYT - Young Adult Paperback
Randolph Staff Favorites - May 2023
NPM - YA Tough Topics
NYT - Young Adult Paperback
Randolph Staff Favorites - May 2023
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As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
2) Chirp
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Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
3) Grown
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"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
4) Parachutes
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A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
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Told in flashbacks, dark fairytales, and present-day prose, fourteen-year-old Emma, whose best friend has accused her father of heinous crimes, must testify against her friend's word, and her carefully constructed "truths" about what she may or may not have witnessed between father and friend start to crumble.
7) No accident
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2022
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No matter how you try to hide it, the truth will always come out . . . When a small plane crash ends with a group of seven teens washed up on a deserted island, their first thought is survival. With supplies dwindling and the fear of being stranded forever becoming more of a reality, they quickly discover that being the most popular kid in high school doesn't help when you're fighting to stay alive. And when strange and terrifying accidents start...
8) Swagger
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[2013]
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High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
9) Period 8
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Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum is a constant attendee. But as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.
11) A drop of venom
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2024.
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"The legend of Medusa is retold as an empowering feminist tale in an Indian-mythology-inspired world"--
Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but...
12) Pretty Girl-13
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[2013]
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First edition.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings.
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2022.
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When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.
15) Pandemic
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Lil is left home alone when a pandemic hits her small town in New Jersey, as she fights to survive the deadly flu and face her darkest fears.
16) Fighting words
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[2020]
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Della relies on her older sister, Suki, for comfort and guidance during difficult times, but after Suki attempts suicide, it becomes apparent that she is struggling more than she lets on.
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[2017]
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First edition.
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English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Arab American Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA Tough Topics
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA Tough Topics
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Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
18) Somebody told me
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[2020]
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English
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After an assault at an anime convention, bigender seventeen-year-old Aleks/Alexis moves in with their uncle, a Catholic priest, and decides to help strangers anonymously after overhearing parishioners' confessions.
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