Ambrose deception by Ecton, Emily 

Paperback(Disney/Hyperion, 2019)

BTSB #: 302757 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.4 6-8 Lexile: 610

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Contests - Fiction Puzzles - Fiction Inheritance and succession - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake.

Ambrose deception by Ecton, Emily 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2018)

BTSB #: 302825 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.4 6-8 Lexile: 610

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Contests - Fiction Puzzles - Fiction Inheritance and succession - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake.

Art of secrets : a novel by Klise, James 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02509 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Fund raising - Fiction Outsider art - Fiction Pakistani Americans - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Saba Khan's apartment burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, and her Chicago high school rallies around her. Her family moves rent-free into a luxury apartment, her Facebook page explodes, and she starts dating a popular boy. Then a quirky piece of art donated to a school fund-raising effort for the Khans is revealed to be an unknown work by famous outsider artist Henry Danger, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, causing conflicts that turn Saba's life upside down again.

Courage by Binns, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2018)

BTSB #: 120213 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.8 6-8 Lexile: 660 HL

Genres:

Subjects: Brothers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Diving - Fiction Ex-convicts - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Family life - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: T'Shawn studies hard and never gets into trouble, so he thinks his widowed mom might be willing to bear the cost when he is offered a spot on a diving team at a local private swim club ... until he finds out his older brother, Lamont, is getting released early from prison. Luckily, T'Shawn is given a scholarship to join. But when criminal activity increases in the neighborhood and people begin to suspect Lamont, T'Shawn begins to worry that maybe his brother hasn't left his criminal past behind.

First rule of punk by Perez, Celia C. 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 709459 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 670 F&P: T

Genres:

Subjects: Individuality - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction Punk rock music - Fiction Bands (Music) - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Maria Luisa moves from Florida to Chicago with her mom and assembles a group of misfits at school into a band.

First rule of punk by Perez, Celia C. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC ;, 2018)

BTSB #: P04153 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Individuality - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction Punk rock music - Fiction Bands (Music) - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Maria Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malu) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

First rule of punk by Perez, Celia C. 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2017)

BTSB #: 709456 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 670 F&P: T

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Individuality - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction Punk rock music - Fiction Bands (Music) - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Maria Luisa moves from Florida to Chicago with her mom and assembles a group of misfits at school into a band.

Ghost boys by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2019)

BTSB #: 749479 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3 MG RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 360 HL F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Racism - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.

Ghost boys by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2018)

BTSB #: 749481 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3 MG RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 360 HL F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Racism - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.

Ghost boys by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04219 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Racism - Fiction Death - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.

If you're out there by Loutzenhiser, Katy 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2020)

BTSB #: 588240 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 4.1 MG+ Lexile: 570

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Mystery fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Zan is baffled when her best friend, Priya, stops answering her emails after moving to California, but new friend, Logan, presents the disturbing possibility that Priya cannot answer.

Love, hate & other filters by Ahmed, Samira 

Paperback(Soho Teen, 2018)

BTSB #: 047080 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Muslims - Fiction East Indian Americans - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Terrorism - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.

Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Colbert, Brandy 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 226331 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.7 MG+

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.