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816193
Chasing forgiveness by Shusterman, Neal 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 816193 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
Lexile: 710 HL

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Father-son relationship - Fiction Death - Fiction Forgiveness - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction


Summary: A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.


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262831
In the shadow of liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives by Davis, Kenneth C. 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2016)

BTSB #: 262831 Available

Dewey: 920.0092/CAges: 8-12   
AR: 8.2 MG RC: 10.6 9-12 Lexile: 1110

Subjects: Slaves African Americans Presidents - Relations with African Americans - History Slavery - United States - History United States - Race relations - History


Summary: An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents.


729811
Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 729811 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-16   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Loving, Richard Perry - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Loving, Mildred Jeter - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Novels in verse Interracial marriage - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.


670496
My Seneca Village by Nelson, Marilyn 

BTSB Prebound(Namelos, 2015)

BTSB #: 670496 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 10-14   


Subjects: Children's poetry Race relations - Poetry Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) - History - Poetry


Summary: Quiet for more than 135 years, the voices of multi-ethnic, multi-racial Seneca Village are rising again. Angela Riddles ponders being free-but-not-free. The orphaned Donnelly brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his era and into ours.


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790880
Mystery of life : how nothing became everything by Schutten, Jan Paul 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2015)

BTSB #: 790880 Available

Dewey: 576/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.3 MG Lexile: 830

Subjects: Life (Biology) Life - Origin Evolution Discoveries in science


Summary: With decades of scientific knowledge behind him and a genuine sense of fun in his approach, Jan Paul Schutten rewards curiosity with engaging explanations about some of the most complicated scientific issues that exist, and tells readers that there is much left to discover. For example: Why does the paramecium deserve a standing ovation? How do you build a planet? Does a tree want to be tall? How does a bacterium turn into a blue whale? How can you survive without a rear end?


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754948
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Riordan, Rick 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2014)

BTSB #: 754948 Available

Dewey: 398.2/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.2 6-8 Lexile: 790

Subjects: Greek Gods - Fiction


Summary: Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view - with plenty of attitude - in this illustrated collection.


439988
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine 

BTSB Prebound(Greenwillow Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 439988 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 14-18   
Lexile: NP

Subjects: Children's poetry Fairy tales


Summary: Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White's cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving depiction of young women, society, and our expectations. Poisoned Apples is a dark, clever, witty, beautiful, and important book for teenage girls, their sisters, their mothers, and their best friends.


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830562
Stand off by Smith, Andrew 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 830562 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.6 UG Lexile: 900

Genres: Sports


Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction Private schools - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Rugby football - Fiction


Summary: Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has tried to resist, including change.


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151828
Strike! : the farm workers' fight for their rights by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2014)

BTSB #: 151828 Available

Dewey: 331/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.5 MG RC: 11.6 6-8 Lexile: 1220

Subjects: Chavez, Cesar,|d1927-1993 United Farm Workers Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970 Filipino Americans Mexican Americans Migrant labor


Summary: Oral histories, FBI files, personal diaries, letters, and newspapers tell the dramatic story of the Delano grape strike and the rise (and fall) of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America.


871684
This one summer by Tamaki, Mariko 

BTSB Prebound(First Second, 2014)

BTSB #: 871684 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 14-18   
AR: 2.4 UG RC: 5.1 9-12 Lexile: 300 GN F&P: Z+

Subjects: Teenage girls Teenagers Adolescence Interpersonal relations Friendship Love in adolescence Bildungsromans Summer Vacations Graphic novels


Summary: Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets and heartache, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other.


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128852
Tommy : the gun that changed America by Blumenthal, Karen 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2015)

BTSB #: 128852 Available

Dewey: 355.824/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.3 MG RC: 11.7 6-8 Lexile: 1180

Subjects: Thompson submachine gun - History


Summary: The story of Tommy, the first commercially available automatic weapon, the Thompson Machine Gun.


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366132
Trouble in me by Gantos, Jack 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015)

BTSB #: 366132 Available

Dewey: 813/BAges: 13-16   
AR: 6.1 UG RC: 7.6 6-8 Lexile: 970 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Gantos, Jack Human behavior Juvenile delinquency Friendship Moving Wit and humor Florida


Summary: Fourteen-year-old Jack falls under the spell of a delinquent Florida neighbor and gets way more trouble than he bargained for.


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445353
Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive by Hillenbrand, Laura 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 445353 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.4 UG RC: 8.6 9-12 Lexile: 850

Subjects: Zamperini, Louis,|d1917-2014 World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons - Japan Prisoners of war - United States - Biography Prisoners of war - Japan - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - American aerial operations Long-distance runners - United States - Biography Olympic athletes - United States - Biography


Summary: An Olympian becomes an airman when World War II breaks out. When his plane crashes in the Pacific, he begins a journey driving him to the limits of endurance where he responds to desperation with ingenuity, to suffering with hope and humor, to brutality with rebellion.


916913
Walking on earth & touching the sky : poetry and prose by Lakota youth at Red Cloud Indian School

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2012)

BTSB #: 916913 Available

Dewey: 810.8/NAges: 8-14   


Subjects: American literature Lakota Indians Indian children's writings


Summary: A unique collection of poetry by Native American students.


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