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• Buzzing

  Sattin, Samuel

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  For Isaac, the usual teenage struggles of school, friends, and family are complicated by his intrusive thoughts and compulsions, symptoms of his OCD that swarm and buzz like bees. When some classmates invite him to join their fantasy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chronically Dolores

  Van Wagenen, Maya

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  14-year-old Dolores tries to move forward with her life after a spectacularly embarrassing accident at the end of middle school lands her with a concussion, a diagnosis of a painful chronic bladder condition, hospital bills she knows her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Name Kingfisher

  Kessler, Liz

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  This cross-generational story melds together two stories: a girl struggling with bullies in the present and her grandmother's experience living through WWII in Holland.

• How to Stay Invisible

  Rudd, Maggie

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  After Raymond's parents abandon him the day before Thanksgiving, Raymond chooses to live in the woods behind his school to stay out of foster care. Can he and his dog Rosie survive on their own? Or will hunger, cold weather, sickness, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If I Have to Be Haunted

  Sun, Miranda

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  Cara Tang can see ghosts. Torn between using her gift, like her grandmother desires, and ignoring her gift, like her mother insists, Cara spends her life in an unseasy tension. When an ancient curse strikes Cara's high school nemesis,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Impossible Escape

  a True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany

  Sheinkin, Steve

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  After being forcibly taken to a work camp during World War II, Rudi Vrba experiences first hand the atrocities that the Nazis are keeping secret from the rest of the world. Rudi makes it his mission to not only escape, but to tell the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lake House

  Durst, Sarah Beth

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  Claire's parents think that summer camp at The Lake House will be just what she needs to overcome her crippling anxiety. However, when she and two other campers are dropped off at the remote island campsite, they find a dead body on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Bloodcarver

  Le, Vanessa, 1999-

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  Nhika is scraping by working as a healer, but she's hiding a dangerous secret: she is actually a bloodcarver, able to alter people's biology with a single touch. When a healing session goes awry and Nhika's secret is revealed, it sets off…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mexikid

  a Graphic Memoir

  Martin, Pedro, 1967-

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  Pedro's family heads to Mexico on an epic road trip for the ages, starring a tricked-out Winnebago, cassette tapes of Happy Days, bribing border guards, bad haircuts, Pop Rocks and snot, exhuming gravesites, emergency deer surgery, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Northranger

  Terciero, Rey

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  Cade is a horror-movie fanatic, but he's not sure what's scariest--scooping horse poop on a ranch all summer, the growing suspicion that the ranch's owner could be hiding deadly secrets, or the homophobia and racism of this rural Texas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rhythm of Time

  Questlove

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  Rahim is sent back from the present to 1997 by an experimental cell phone. With the help of his best friend Kasia, Rahim must figure out how to get back to his own timeline before his presence in the past destroys the future.

• The Ruby Code

  Khoury, Jessica, 1990-

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  A teen boy living in a dystopian, near-future version of New York City spends most of his time playing VR games to cope with his difficult home life, but when an NPC starts behaving strangely, his escapist fantasy game spirals into a fight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thieves' Gambit

  Lewis, Kayvion

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  Ross Quest is ready to leave the high stakes life of crime she was born into and try living a normal life, but when what she hoped would be her final heist goes terribly wrong, Ross is forced to enter the mysterious Thieves’ Gambit, where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Final Word

  Sumner Johnson, Janet

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  After learning that they are secretly related to the ultra-wealthy Winterton family, twins Hope and Gordon enter the Winterton's high-stakes spelling bee in the hopes of winning the prize money and learning more about their newly…Read moreRead more of this annotation