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African American women political activists Juvenile fiction Black lives matter movement Juvenile fiction Gay teenagers Fiction High school students Juvenile fiction Poetry Juvenile fiction Police brutality Juvenile fiction Racism Juvenile fiction Rap musicians Juvenile fiction Teenage boys Fiction Young adult fictionMoore, C. G. (Christopher George)
Summary: 17-year-old Jay wakes up in a park, battered and confused and unable to remember what happened the night before. But he has his suspicions. His best friend, Rain, takes him to hospital, and Jay is referred to the sexual assault unit. At first Jay refuses to believe that he was raped. And yet Jay becomes overwhelmed when the weight of what has happened starts to dawn on him. He wants answers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MOOSchu, John
Summary: "Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SCHRussell, Anna
Summary: "Josh Baker isn't sure why his brain tells him to do things that other people don't need to do: checking his locker again and again, counting cracks in ceilings, and always needing to finish a song, for starters. He is a talented drummer, a math genius, and he knows everything about rock and roll. Yet, he knows his problems have the power to hurt his family and make him fail at school. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUSZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBAtta, Dean
Summary: "Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTCoelho, Joseph
Summary: "This story is about two boys, separated by centuries, parted by myth, divided by reality. Two boys hoping to be men. Two boys severed from their fathers. Two boys searching a maze of manhood." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: His mother is a BLM activist. Mason Tyndall is an aspiring rap artist whose mother is a BLM activist. She saw fatal officer-involved shootings as senseless tragedies. He viewed them as trending hashtags--that is, until he almost became one. Mason Zy'Aire Tyndall has big dreams. Dreams of sick beats, epic mic-drops, sold out stadiums. Mason's going to be a rap star--and you don't become a rap...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Central Avenue Publishing 2024