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2) Rez ball
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"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
3) Game changer
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After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
5) This boy
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"Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and “wins” at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe -- oh god, please -- he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a...
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special--he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of Michael's friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with their abilities, and their...
8) Tornado
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When his high school lets out early due to a power outage from a nearby storm, Cam decides to get food with his friends before picking up his brother Peter from the bus stop. Underestimating the path of the storm, Cam gets caught in a tornado and is left to find his brother in the path of destruction it left behind.
9) Reckless
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While riding his dirt bike on an abandoned logging road, Josh encounters a Vietnam veteran who has been living in the wilderness for forty years, and the two develop an unusual friendship.
10) Nine doors
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The game of Nicky-nicky Nine doors seemed harmless enough when they started, but Emery and Richard discover there are serious consequences to scaring and then videotaping your neighbors' reactions.
11) Smooth
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Kevin's acne is horribly, hideously bad. Can a risky treatment fix his face — and his entire life? A witty and sharply observed debut.
Fifteen-year-old Kevin has acne, and not just any acne. Stinging red welts, painful pustules, and massive whiteheads are ruining his life. In an act of desperation, he asks his dermatologist to prescribe him a drug with a dizzying list of possible side effects — including depression
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder... right? Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone's asking if they're staying together, which is a stupid question... or at least that's what Nick and Charlie assume at first. As the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie start to question...
13) The ledge
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Nick, a teenage boy used to being good at everything he tried his hand at, feels life has ended after an accident leaves him partially paralyzed and his girlfriend dumps him. Then, Nick begins to get too attached to his prescription meds, and everything hits rock bottom--but somehow, Nick vows to find a way to get his life back.
14) Ryan and Avery
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Tells the story of blue-haired Ryan and pink-haired Avery, two boys who meet at a queer prom, through their first 10 dates as they fall in love amidst snowstorms, groundings, meeting parents, heartbreak, and every day and date in between.
15) Equal
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In 1959, thirteen-year-old Jackie Honeycutt meets Thomas Freeman while fishing near Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina. The two boys become friends but soon realize the challenges they will face as Jackie is white and Thomas is Black. Jackie experiences the effects of racism and discrimination through his friendship with Thomas, and he faces resistance from his classmates and his community. Soon, Jackie is inspired to make a change and work...
16) The ride home
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When city kid Mark moves in with his grandmother on her farm, he has to take a school bus for the first time. The long ride is nothing like the city transit buses he's used to. There's a secret seating arrangement, kids scream nonstop and throw food, and someone even tries to set Mark's seat on fire. He quickly decides that he's better off avoiding everyone on the bus. But when the bus is involved in an accident, Mark finds out that he has more in...
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"Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphicnovels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she's sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping trip to "bond." Determined to trick Hank into showing his true colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe best friend, Charlie, prepare...
18) Elemental
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In a dystopian colony of the United States where everyone is born with powers of the elements, water, wind, earth, and fire, sixteen-year-old Thomas, the first and only child born without an element seems powerless, but is he?
19) Boy meets boy
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As a gay high school sophomore, Paul struggles with friendships, an ex-boyfriend who keeps hanging on, and a new love interest.
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Everyone on campus knows Remy Cameron: he's the out-and-proud, super-likable guy who friends, faculty, and fellow students alike admire for his cheerful confidence. Under pressure to write an A+ essay defining who he is and who he wants to be, Remy embarks on an emotional journey toward reconciling the outward labels people attach to him with the real Remy Cameron within.