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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
Using historical poetic forms and excerpts from two trials—with concrete poetry blended in—Elliot brings Joan of Arc's story vividly to life. The sparse verse elicits a visceral response, while Joan is portrayed as an empowered individual, despite her youth.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781328987594
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War Girls
The year 2172 has not brought peace to war-torn Nigeria and Biafra. Onyii is both a fierce warrior on behalf of the Biafrans and a tender soul whose adopted sister, Ify, is Nigerian. Their relationship is strained when Ify is returned to her Nigerian home to be weaponized against the Biafrans.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780451481672
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Warrior of the Wild
Rasmira, daughter of the village leader, was betrayed and exiled during her warrior trial. She has to complete an undoable task to be able to go back to her village and family. If she completes her task, will her people respect her?- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2020
- ISBN: 9781250189943
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Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light…That's how Simon, Penny, and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9781250146076
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We Are Lost and Found
Set in 1980s New York City, this title examines identity and sexuality during a time when exploring such things could be dangerous. All Michael wants to do is fall and love and lose his virginity without catching something. Is that too much to ask?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781492681045
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We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya)
Zafira Bint Iskandar is the Hunter. The savior for her people - but they will never know it, because their prejudice against women forces Zafira to hide her identity. Nasir, an assassin and the Prince, is forced to leave behind his compassion by his father. As the Arz, the darkness grows closer, the two embark on a quest for an artifact to save Arawiya, but while Zafira is set on stopping the Arz, Nasir is set on the mission given to him by his father: Kill the Hunter and take the Artifact to the palace.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9780374311544
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We Set the Dark on Fire
After Dani's graduation from the Medio School for Girls, where she trained to become a politician's wife, a stranger opens her eyes to the privilege, oppressiveness, and excess of the ruling class, and she must decide whether to live forever in a gilded cage or take a stand.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780062691316
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We'll Fly Away
As kids Luke and Toby dreamed of escaping their lives of poverty and abuse in a rusty crop-dusting plane they discovered and spent a summer mending. Now Luke writes hopeless letters to Toby from death row where he awaits a fate from which there is no escape.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780062494276
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The Weight of Our Sky
When a race riot between the Malays and Chinese breaks out in 1969 Malaysia, Melati—who is Malay—must survive while overcoming her OCD and searching for her mother. She is aided by a Chinese family, forming a bond with them and, particularly, their teenage son Vince.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781534426085
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What Happened to Goodbye
Ever since Mclean's parents divorced, she has lived in four towns in two years – each time taking on a new persona. Mclean expects to leave Lakeview in six months, but soon finds that she doesn't want to – she just wants to be herself.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, Teens' Top Ten 2012
- ISBN: 9780670012947
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What I Leave Behind
Sixteen-year-old Will believes that what troubles you must leave you through the soles of your feet, so he walks. In 100 chapters, each 100 words, Will walks the streets of L.A. to cope with unfortunate tragedies haunting his world.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781481476560
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When
High school junior Maddie Fynn has special powers that allow her to see numbers above a person's forehead, which she soon discovers are death dates. She identifies the death date of a young boy, but is unable to prevent his disappearance. Then, Maddie becomes a suspect in a homicide investigation.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2016
- ISBN: 9781484700082
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When Life Gives You Demons
Shelby Black just wants to pass geometry, and for her crush notice her, but her side job as an exorcist-in-training keeps getting in the way. When demons flood her town she must find a way to stop them.- Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2019
- ISBN: 9781250158239
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When Light Left Us
Something infected the Vasquez kids that night in the canyon forming a bond between them, filling the void their father's abandonment left, and leaving their mother an outsider. However, when It suddenly leaves taking the best pieces of them, can they ever become whole and a family again?- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781681191812
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When My Heart Joins the Thousand
Seventeen-year-old Alvie lives by herself, works a full-time job at the zoo, and is waiting to turn eighteen so she can be legally emancipated. Living with Asperger's, Alvie prefers to spend time with animals until she meets Stanley, with whom she starts to fall in love.- Fiction
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2019, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9780062656476
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When the Ground Is Hard
Adele has worked hard to be the perfect daughter and student at the Keziah Christian Academy in Swaziland, so her rapid loss of status among the wealthy girls is a blow to her pride. It isn't until she is forced to room with Lottie Diamond that she begins to discover what is truly important.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780525515579
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Where I End and You Begin
Ezra wants nothing more than to ask his forever crush, Imogen, to prom, but he has to get past Imogen's intense, Ezra-tormenting best friend, Wynonna. After a solar eclipse causes Ezra and Wynonna to switch bodies, they make a deal with each other to get their dream prom dates.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781484798355
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Where She Went
This sequel to Gayle Forman's If I Stay is narrated by Adam, Mia's ex-boyfriend. Shortly after the devastating accident that killed Mia's family, the talented cellist moves to New York, where an accidental meeting brings them back together.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2012
- ISBN: 9780525422945
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White Rabbit
Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn't get much worse, right? But then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. And then he and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife, beside the dead body of her boyfriend, Fox Whitney. April swears she didn't kill Fox—but Rufus knows her too well to believe she's telling him the whole truth. April has something he needs, though, and her price is his help. Now, with no one to trust but the boy he wants to hate yet can't stop loving, Rufus has one night to prove his sister's innocence…or die trying.- Thriller, Fiction
- Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2019
- ISBN: 9781250085658
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Wild Bird
Out-of-control Wren is shipped off to a wilderness survival camp for troubled teens after her parents reach their wits' end with her. Despite her best efforts to remain uncooperative, the stark reality of survival in the desert gradually forces her to face her inner demons.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2018
- ISBN: 9781101940440
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Wilder Girls
The Raxter School has been under quarantine for eighteen months. Nobody knows what caused the mysterious outbreak of the tox. Everyone at the school started getting infected and makes them feel strangers in their own body. Hetty has been dealing with her own demons since this began and waiting for a cure seems pointless. Once her friend Byatt goes missing, she becomes restless and wants answers.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2020
- ISBN: 9780525645580
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With the Fire on High
Emoni Santiago is a senior in high school and has a fiery passion for cooking and her family. With a young daughter and a grandma to take care of, Emoni is struggling to choose whether to follow her dreams of becoming a chef or stay with her family. -
Within These Lines
Through alternating voices of Italian girl, Evalina, and Japanese boy, Taichi, Morrill weaves a tale of the Japanese internment at California's Manzanar Relocation Camp that separates a couple fighting to be reunited.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9780310765233
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You Asked for Perfect
Ariel's whole life has revolved around creating the perfect high school resume, and when he fails a calculus quiz, handsome Amir agrees to tutor him. As a romance begins, everything Ariel has built starts to crumble, and he isn't sure what is worth holding onto.- Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020
- ISBN: 9781492658276
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The Young Elites
Darth Vader, Voldemort, Maleficent. Witness the rise of a new villain.- Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2015
- ISBN: 9780147511683