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1) Wave
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J FARID D.
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J FARID D.
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When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA LOCKINGTON M.
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YA LOCKINGTON M.
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When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
On a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. Sadie feels safe. She's been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety, and is hopeful better times are ahead. When her girlfriend reveals some unexpected news, and the two witness a violent incident of police...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA LATHAM I.
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YA LATHAM I.
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
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In Cuidad Juárez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help.
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Told in verse, seventeen-year-old Eliza, an environmental activist, is navigating the after-effects of a hurricane that devastated her coastal town while falling for Milo, a rich tourist who is at the center of a redevelopment that could put her community in danger--again.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA WOODFOLK A.
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YA WOODFOLK A.
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A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually destructive partners in crime.
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YA WILSON K.
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YA WILSON K.
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On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
8) Starfish
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J FIPPS L.
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J FIPPS L.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J FIPPS L.
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J FIPPS L.
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
9) Kent State
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA WILES D.
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YA WILES D.
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Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA MCBRIDE A.
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YA MCBRIDE A.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Young Adult Collection
YA MCBRIDE A.
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YA MCBRIDE A.
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When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
11) Bull
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Young Adult Collection
YA ELLIOTT D.
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YA ELLIOTT D.
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A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse.
12) Lawless spaces
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While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
13) Paper hearts
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"Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that?s based on a true story. An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death. Making a birthday card in Auschwitz was all of those things. But that is what Zlatka did, in 1944, for her best friend, Fania. She stole and bartered for paper and scissors, secretly creating...
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Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 811.6 REYNOLDS 2022
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YA 811.6 REYNOLDS 2022
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"Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance. A reissue of a memoir of a moment in time within a lifetime of friendship"--
16) White Rose
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA WILSON K.
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YA WILSON K.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Young Adult Collection
YA WILSON K.
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YA WILSON K.
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Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother, and his fellow soldiers formed the White Rose. A non-violent resistance group, they write and distribute anonymous letters criticizing the Nazi regime and calling for action from their fellow German...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 811.54 GRIMES 2019
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YA 811.54 GRIMES 2019
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"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduring companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Young Adult Collection
YA MCCULLOUGH J.
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YA MCCULLOUGH J.
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Rome, 1605: After her mother's death, Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. Artemisia became...
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Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father...
20) Me (Moth)
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA MCBRIDE A.
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YA MCBRIDE A.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Young Adult Collection
YA MCBRIDE A.
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YA MCBRIDE A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA PLAYAWAY MCBRIDE A.
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YA PLAYAWAY MCBRIDE A.
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Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
