Teen High Interest Titles


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Book cover for "The nerdy and the dirty"
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4.7 stars
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A cool girl--with an X-rated internal life--and a socially-inept guy prove that opposites attract in this honest look at love, sexuality, and becoming your true self.

182. Nightjohn

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4 stars
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Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
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"This novel tells a contemporary and timely story of love outside the binary, as experienced by today's teens. In this novel a teen realizing their nonbinary identity and a gender-fluid boy discover together that there's no longer any need for labels. Dan has an increasingly common problem: climate anxiety. After a storm devastated parts of Ottawa, it's hard to get climate change out of mind. Dan goes to help clean up at the school, but only one other...
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"Yuriel's poor neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico, isn't a place where fairy tales happen. Yuriel and his cousin Azul work each day doing laundry to help their family make a living. So when Azul, a trans teen, decides she wants to mark her transition to womanhood with a quinceañera, Yuriel is sure it's an impossible dream. They don't have the money, and besides, Azul's father would never support her transition. But as an openly gay artist in a traditional...
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No Survivors. Cruz is nervous to travel by train for the frist time. His worries soon turn to fear when the journey goes horribly wrong. Now Cruz wonders if he'll ever be able to find his way home.
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Bluford series volume 14.
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Bluford High freshman Harold Davis is trapped. Medical bills for his sick grandmother are piling up, and a social worker has threatened to put him in a foster home. Desperate for money, he reluctantly agrees to work for Londell James, a neighborhood drug dealer. Will Harold escape the violence that surrounds him?
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Hannah goes on a search for her younger brother, who has disappeared with their overdue rent money, and finds unexpected romance along the way"--
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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"June is fat. June also has an eating disorder, but no one sees. When she doesn't eat, her friends and family think they see a fat girl on a diet, not someone starving herself. When June's secret is found out by Toby, the new boy next door, she is panicked. Then she learns he also has a secret. Everyone has their own little lies."--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Notes from the dog"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over.

190. Now

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Once series volume 3.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
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On an eventful road trip down the Coastal Highway, future video game designer Livi prepares for a college interview and her twin sister, Nora, works on getting into film school.

192. Oh, snap!

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Cruisers volume 4.
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When their journalistic counterparts at a school in England begin to add incriminating photographs to their articles, the Cruisers and students at Harlem's DaVinci Academy realize that words and pictures do not always tell the whole story.

193. Once

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Once series volume 1.
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After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
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4 stars
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Michael convinces his grandfather, a retired cat burglar, to help him steal back a valuable necklace."--
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"Edgar wants nothing more than to live his life out loud. But telling the truth about his sexuality isn't so easy in his traditional Mexican-American family, and his Amá has made it clear she won't accept who he is. Things get even harder when Edgar's macho father returns home after months away, and the house erupts into fighting and simmering tension. Edgar worries what would happen if he told his father the truth about who he is, and feels he'll...

197. The ooze

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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, queer trans teen Bran tries to uncover what is causing everyone around him to start acting so violently."--
Book cover for "Orbiting Jupiter"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice."--
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"In the near future the tides are rising, the weather is out of control, and the rain is poison. Mal lost his family in a storm and now lives with other young people, trying to survive the changing world. Faced with the threat of the rising water and his friend's illness, Mal and his makeshift family must travel across the country to reach a safe place. But the road is dangerous and not all will find their way safely to their new home"--Back of cover....
Book cover for "The outsiders"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.