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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Closest I've Come is a must-read from talented first-time author Fred Aceves, in the tradition of Walter Dean Myers. Marcos Rivas yearns for love, a working cell phone, and maybe a pair of sneakers that aren't falling apart. But more than anything, Marcos wants to get out of Maesta, his hood, away from his indifferent mom and her abusive boyfriend, which seems impossible. When Marcos is placed in a new after-school program,...
3) Keeping 13
Author
Series
Boys of Tommen volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
His first, last, and only true love has always been rugby.Until now.Following a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unraveling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes. With his best friend, Gibsie, by his side, Johnny embarks on his quest of exposing the secrets surrounding...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
5) Sky ropes
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Breanna is forced to go to the team-building camp that kicks off sixth grade where she will have to face the sky ropes course and her fear of heights that is linked to her father's abuse while still keeping her fear a secret from her friends.
6) Almost home
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Description
Seven teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.
9) Aftermath
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Four years after being kidnapped, sixteen-year-old Charlotte returns home to find her family ripped apart, but before she can try to reunite them, or help find the body of her captor's first victim, she must come to terms with her past.
10) Perennial girl
Author
Series
[Ugly me] volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023], ©2023
Description
"She's scared. She's hungry. She's exhausted. How much longer can she hold on? Randi Lewis is a month into seventh grade, and things definitely aren't going as planned. After a terrible sixth-grade year, she was hoping to really turn her life around. But the same old problems are still haunting her: Bullying, middle school girl drama, teachers who don't want her around, an incarcerated father, an abusive mother, acute poverty, a home with no food......
11) Ugly me
Author
Series
[Ugly me] volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"She yells. She curses. She fights. Her classmates say she's difficult. Her teacher's say she's the student from hell... Randi Lewis isn't your typical seventh-grader. She's a damaged girl with a secret life who just wants to be a normal, happy teenager. And on her first day of seventh grade, she vows to make this the year she turns it all around. This will be the year that she'll finally let go of her pain and her anger and be happy again. All she...
12) Made of stars
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
When Hunter Jackson and his half sister, Ashlin, return to their dad's for the first winter in years, they expect everything to be just like as when they were kids, but secrets are quickly spiraling out of control and someone turns up with a bullet to the head, and now they have to prove that the childhood friend they both love didn't do it.
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