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Melanie Gillman , illustrator
(2,616)
Summary: "Charlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So naturally, she's spending a week of her summer vacation stuck at an all-white Christian...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL GIL
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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Colson Whitehead
(139,159)
Summary: In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story...
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BOOK
Call #: F WHITEHEAD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 3
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![The Nickel boys [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/207065@2x.jpg)
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Colson Whitehead
(142,990)
Summary: In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F WHITEHEAD
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kristina Forest
(1,700)
Summary: "When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her...
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Call #: YA F FOREST
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Whitney D. Grandison
(934)
Summary: "When Tyson Trice finds himself tossed into the wealthy coastal community of Pacific Hills, he's ready for the questions, the stares and the feeling of not belonging. Not that he cares. After...
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Call #: YA F GRANDISON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Brandy Colbert
(980)
Summary: Yvonne's violin keeps her company, especially after her mother walked out on their family. With graduation just around the corner, she's beginning to question if she's good enough to attend a...
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Call #: YA F COLBERT
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Allegedly [eBook] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/177223@2x.jpg)
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Tiffany D. Jackson
(18,862)
Summary: Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the...
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Tiffany D. Jackson
(18,845)
Summary: Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the...
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Call #: F JACKSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Walter Dean Myers
(1,147)
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL MYE
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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Dana Davis
(1,291)
Summary: I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a...
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Call #: YA F DAVIS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mark Oshiro
(4,240)
Summary: Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near...
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Call #: YA F OSHIRO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Walter Dean Myers
(2,710)
Summary: A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
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Call #: YA F MYERS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kekla Magoon
(6,168)
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has...
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Call #: YA F MAGOON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jason Reynolds
(6,344)
Summary: Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
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Call #: YA F REYNOLDS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mark Oshiro
(4,379)
Summary: Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near...
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Morgan Parker
(1,038)
Summary: "17-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored." -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: YA F PARKER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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L. R. Giles
(760)
Summary: When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief...
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Call #: YA F GILES
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Brit Bennett
(64,647)
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a...
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Call #: F BENNETT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Tiffany D. Jackson
(17,675)
Summary: Monday Charles is missing, and Claudia seems to be the one person who notices. They've always been inseparable, and when Monday doesn't show up for school for two weeks, Claudia knows that something...
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Call #: YA F JACKSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ni-Ni Simone
Series:
Hollywood High - #3
(59)
Summary: While London's ex leaves her for her best friend, spoiled Rich's efforts to find a new man put her in the path of a dangerous bad boy, Heather receives unexpected news after rehab, and Spencer forges dubious alliances to exact revenge.
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Call #: YA F SIMONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ni-Ni Simone
Series:
Hollywood High - #6
(10)
Summary: "She's finally free of her overbearing mother and too much heartbreak. Now supermodel London Phillips is going to get back her billionaire ex--on her own terms. But settling old scores and destroying...
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Call #: YA F SIMONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Stacey Lee
(8,408)
Summary: "In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"-- Provided by publisher.
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Call #: YA F LEE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Bill Konigsberg
(2,064)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets...
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Call #: YA F KONIGSBERG
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Alex Sanchez
(1,074)
Summary: Jake Hyde doesn't swim -- not since his father drowned. Luckily, he lives in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, which is in the middle of the desert, yet he yearns for the ocean and is determined to...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL ACQ
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ni-Ni Simone
Series:
Throwback Diaries - #2
(44)
Summary: After a street fights ends with a jail sentence, Yvette is forced to live far from anything and anyone she's ever known, but starting her life over again may show her what it means to have a real family.
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Call #: YA F SIMONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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