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Victor Farmington Library - YA New Materials
YA ILO
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YA ILO
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC ILO
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YA FIC ILO
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A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA B CLARK
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YA B CLARK
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"Zion Clark has always had big dreams for himself despite the many hardships he faced growing up as a Black disabled child in the foster care system of Ohio. His childhood years were marked by instability as he moved from home to home, experiencing abuse and neglect. And yet his determination and grit pushed him to become an elite wrestler and wheelchair racer. His constant reinvention led him to activism, speaking out about the failings of the foster...
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC WOO
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YA FIC WOO
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"Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Lux Lawson is on a spree. Ever since her dad left, she's been kicked out of every school that would take her, and this is her last chance: Harlem's Augusta Savage School of the Arts. If this doesn't work, Lux...
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Newark Public Library - Teen Graphic Books
YA GRAPHIC MED
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YA GRAPHIC MED
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA GRAPHIC I
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YA GRAPHIC I
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The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA GRAPHIC S
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YA GRAPHIC S
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This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
6) Night music
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Geneva Public Library - Ground Floor Teen Room Fiction
YA THORNE
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YA THORNE
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC THO
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YA FIC THO
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Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the protégé of her father, a renowned composer.
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Red Jacket Community Library - New Teen Nonfiction
YA B OLU
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YA B OLU
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA B OLUSEYI
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YA B OLUSEYI
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"Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities in the country, and his teenage years in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, James adopts the hybrid persona of a ?gangsta nerd?–dealing weed in juke...
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 323.11 MAC
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YA 323.11 MAC
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By the middle of the 1900s, African Americans were tired of the discriminatory treatment they had been receiving even after the abolition of slavery nearly 100 years prior. As the American civil rights movement began to grow, a group of courageous activists, called the Freedom Riders, began challenging the segregated status quo. Assisted by engaging fact boxes and a comprehensive text, readers are placed in the middle of the fight for equality. Striking...
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC HAR
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YA FIC HAR
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A lot is up in the air in Naomi Henry's her spot as a varsity cheer flier, her classmates' reaction to the debut of her natural hair, and her crush on the guy who's always been like a brother to her. With so much uncertainty, she feels lucky to have a best friend like Kylie to keep her grounded. After all, they're practically sisters--Naomi's mom took care of Kylie and her twin brother for years. But then a video of Kylie calling the cops on two Black...
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Newark Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC KAN
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YA FIC KAN
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC KAN
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YA FIC KAN
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In this young adult novel, Alice, afraid of explaining her asexuality, has given up on finding love until love finds her.
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 323.09 KHA
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YA 323.09 KHA
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"This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most...
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Newark Public Library - Teen New Materials
YA FIC JAC
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YA FIC JAC
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Victor Farmington Library - YA New Materials
YA JAC
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YA JAC
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Walworth-Seely Public Library - Teen New Materials
YA FIC Jackson
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YA FIC Jackson
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When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
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Lyons Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
920 WILLIAMS (Call Him Jack)
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920 WILLIAMS (Call Him Jack)
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA B ROBINSON
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YA B ROBINSON
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"An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights"--
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Naples Library - Teen Nonfiction
YA 323.1196 AND
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YA 323.1196 AND
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 323.119 AND
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YA 323.119 AND
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"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. WeAre Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration...
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Naples Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC ILO
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YA FIC ILO
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Williamson Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC ILO
1 available
YA FIC ILO
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Wood Library Association - Canandaigua - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC ILO
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YA FIC ILO
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A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
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Lima Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC TAL
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YA FIC TAL
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Macedon Public Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN TAL
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TEEN TAL
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Newark Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC TAL
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YA FIC TAL
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In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
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Dansville Public Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 973.049 PIN
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J 973.049 PIN
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Sodus Community Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 920 PIN
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J 920 PIN
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Warsaw Public Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 920 PIN
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J 920 PIN
1 available
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Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
18) Anger is a gift
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Lima Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC OSH
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YA FIC OSH
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Newark Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC OSH
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YA FIC OSH
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Stevens Memorial Community Library - Attica - Young Adult Fiction
YA OSHI
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YA OSHI
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Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
19) Ghost roast
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Bristol Library - Graphic
J GRAPH GIB
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J GRAPH GIB
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Clifton Springs Library - Teen Graphic Books
YA Graphic Gib
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YA Graphic Gib
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Geneva Public Library - Ground Floor Teen Room New Graphic Books
YA GN GIB
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YA GN GIB
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Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
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Lima Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC BRY
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YA FIC BRY
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Livonia Public Library - Teen Fiction Collection
YA FIC BRY
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YA FIC BRY
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Macedon Public Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN BRY
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TEEN BRY
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"From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She...