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241. Shoot the storm
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"Aaliyah saw her father Boogie-G killed on the park basketball courts. For a while, Aaliyah stopped talking, but after finding videos of her father rapping on stage, Aaliyah begins to rap. Two years later, she is at the top of her game on the basketball court and finding her rhythm with rap, until she sees her father's killer again. Aaliyah considers joining her father's old gang to avenge his death, but what will it cost her?"--Provided by publisher....
242. Shug
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Twelve-year-old Annemarie "Shug" Wilcox feels that she is freakishly tall, freakishly flat-chested, and freakishly freckled. And now she's starting junior high where her friends all act like complete strangers and her life seems like a blur.
A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South.
243. Sign me up
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"Alyssa is an ice skater who prefers to skate alone. She lives in rural Alaska, where a quiet frozen lake is her happy place. But now she's moving to sunny, loud Los Angeles. As the new girl in town, Alyssa isn't sure if she'll ever fit in. When the local roller derby team takes Alyssa under its wing, she's not sure she wants to trade her ice skates and solitude for roller skates and teammates. Alyssa decides to leave her comfort zone. Will she find...
244. Siren sisters
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Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it.
245. The sittin' up
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"When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--
246. The skin I'm in
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The skin I'm in novels volume 1.
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3 stars
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka Madison, insecure about her very dark skin, rejects the support of a new teacher, Miss Saunders, whose skin looks blotched because of a rare medical condition--but soon Maleeka begins to see that Miss Saunders could be a role model, and that she must learn to love herself and accept love from others.
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On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
248. Solis
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Told in four voices, four prisoners, including undocumented seventeen-year-old Rania, rebel against the corrupt and xenophobic government of the New American Republic that exploits undocumented immigrants in deadly labor camps to mine a world-changing chemical.
249. Some girls bind
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Genderqueer adolescent Jamie and her gay friend Levi come out to her brother Steve, who encourages them to seek acceptance from friends and family. Told in verse format.
250. Someone to love me
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Bluford series volume 4.
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When Cindy Gibson starts dating Bobby Wallace, he appears to be everything that Cindy is looking for, until he starts behaving strangely and Cindy finds herself in the worst trouble of her life.
251. The song I'm in
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"Despite crippling anxiety, Skyler Reeds has weathered her parents' divorce and, along with her twin sister Katy, has moved to her mom's boyfriend's house in Burlington, Vermont. Now Skyler has to navigate living in a new blended household and starting a new high school while dealing with worsening dermatillomania, a disorder that causes her to obsessively pick her skin. Skyler's only refuge is her singing voice, which she's silenced as her face fills...
252. Spin
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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 groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
253. Star eaters
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In far-off galaxies, entire worlds are dying. Destin is a new Star Eater, a member of an intergalactic corporation that uses advanced technology to steal energy from life-giving suns in other galaxies. He's not sure if he's okay with destroying other planets he's never seen. Then he finds Calla, a mysterious girl who stowed away on his ship after his first solo mission. With only enough fuel for a one-way trip, Destin has a decision to make--does...
254. Stargirl
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
255. The starlight claim
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After he decides to head into remote territory in an effort to find lost friend, "a teenager [sets] wits against the frigid wilderness and a menacing crew of escapees"--Provided by publisher.
256. Stepping out
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Paige Larsson, YouTube comedy vlogger, has always used humor to cope with her disability but an opportunity to compete in stand-up comedy is a big step out of her comfort zone.
"Laughter is fifteen-year-old Paige Larsson's currency in life. It takes the sting out of life's tough stuff. It eases the pain of nasty comments, agonizing moments in gym class and awkward pauses at parties. She likes it even more when others laugh with her, so she's become...
257. Sticks and stones
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jujube finds a novel way to take on her tormentors and help a group of girls win back their self-esteem."--
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March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as jewel thieves, but when their latest job goes wrong they end up with one jewel, a sapphire called the Morning Star, one of three cursed jewels--and the only way they can break thecurse is to elude the FBI, Interpol, and a gang of international criminals, find the other two jewels, and reunite them.
March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as...
259. Stolen girl
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When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
260. Stones in water
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After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.