Because it is my blood by Zevin, Gabrielle 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012)

BTSB #: 980197 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.5 UG RC: 4.7 9-12 Lexile: 640 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Organized crime - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Celebrities - Fiction Violence - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Science fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico) - Fiction Mexico - Fiction

Summary: In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.

Count me in by Bajaj, Varsha 

Paperback(Nancy Paulsen, 2020)

BTSB #: 081844 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 680 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Racism - Fiction East Indian Americans - Fiction Violence - Fiction Social media - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Texas - Houston - Fiction Houston (Tex.) - Fiction

Summary: Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.

Count me in by Bajaj, Varsha 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2019)

BTSB #: 081984 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 680 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Racism - Fiction East Indian Americans - Fiction Violence - Fiction Social media - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Texas - Houston - Fiction Houston (Tex.) - Fiction

Summary: Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.

In darkness by Lake, Nick 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2012)

BTSB #: 537547 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.6 UG RC: 5.3 9-12 Lexile: 800

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Toussaint Louverture,|d1743-1803 - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Gangs - Fiction Violence - Fiction Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 - Fiction Haiti - History|y1791-1804, Revolution - Fiction

Summary: In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in 1804.

In the age of love and chocolate by Zevin, Gabrielle 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2013)

BTSB #: P02282 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Organized crime - Fiction Nightclubs - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Celebrities - Fiction Violence - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - New York - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Anya's new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. Surviving a crime-ridden New York City in the 2080s is looking harder and harder for Anya.

Leverage by Cohen, Joshua 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01421 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Violence - Fiction Football - Fiction Gymnasts - Fiction Bullies - Fiction High schools - Fiction

Summary: High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.

Murder afloat by Conly, Jane Leslie 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010)

BTSB #: 235927 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: V

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Oyster fisheries - Fiction Fishers - Fiction Kidnapping - Fiction Violence - Fiction Seafaring life - Fiction

Summary: In the 1870s, Benjy, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster ship with a murderous captain.

Paintings from the cave : three novellas by Paulsen, Gary 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01643 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Short stories Violence - Fiction Homeless persons - Fiction Art - Fiction

Summary: In these three novellas, Gary Paulsen explores how children can survive the most difficult circumstances through art and the love of dogs.

When I was the greatest by Reynolds, Jason 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 749269 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.8 UG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres:

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Brooklyn - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Neighborhoods - Fiction Violence - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.

White Zone by Marsden, Carolyn 

BTSB Prebound(Carolrhoda, 2012)

BTSB #: 604955 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 710

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Fiction Muslims - Fiction Violence - Fiction Cousins - Fiction Baghdad (Iraq) - Fiction Iraq - Fiction

Summary: As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.