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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Jim Stark, a new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens, is still reverberating 50 years later. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.
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410 pages ; 22 cm
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Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state, and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell tour through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
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241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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"For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people--or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four--experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life...
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xii, 205 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Perfect for fans of Fresh Off the Boat's situational humor and Jane the Virgin's celebration of Latinidad, Definitely Hispanic is a collection of introspective memoiristic essays by social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James about growing up Hispanic in the US"--
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xix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire world. Have smartphones and social media created a generation of self-obsessed egomaniacs? Absolutely not, Donna Freitas argues in this book. And, she...
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Arabic
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From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller comes her new film IN THE LAND OF POMEGRANATES, a suspenseful, multi-layered documentary centered on a group of young people who were born into a violent and insidious ongoing war. They are young Palestinians and Israelis invited to Germany to join a retreat called 'Vacation From War' where they live under the same roof and face each other every day. They are all caught in the duality of the...
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xii, 202 pages ; 22 cm
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The founder of Encore.org traces his thirty-year quest to meet the challenges of a society with more older than younger members, sharing insights into longevity, age segregation, and the experiences of remarkable, everyday people.
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Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them-at first. With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believed was being built....
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211 pages ; 21 cm
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On the outside, Tirzah has everything: a best friends who adores her and the potential of a full-ride soccer scholarship at her father's alma mater, Illinois University. But to Tirzah, none of it matters since she's stuck in the body of a girl. Struggling to hide her feelings for her best friend Heidi and fighting to cover up her female parts, Tirzah realizes the only way she'll ever be happy is if she transitions. But the change could mean losing...
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""One of the best [books] I've read about the individuals who make up a country that is all too often regarded as a monolith."--Jonathan Fenby, Financial Times If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age...
17) Blood donor
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When Jo McNair is one minute late for her curfew, her controlling father locks her out. Wandering the streets, she has no money and nowhere to sleep. She meets someone who says they're with a group working with at-risk kids, helping them get back on their feet-- and walks into a kidnapper's trap. Now Jo and several other teens are being held prisoner; their captors drug them regularly and force them to donate their blood. When one of the teens doesn't...
18) Around the block
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's about breaking cycles and building dreams. Set in a contemporary, tough, inner-city precinct, this is a story of revenge and triumph, as a teenage boy is torn between his unexpected love of theatre and the disintegration of his family. With encouragement from his unconventional American drama teacher, he confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future.
19) God loves hair
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A story collection that celebrates racial, sexual, and religious diversity.
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