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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
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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 leaves 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...
6) Unexpecting
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Openly gay sixteen-year-old Ben must make difficult decisions when his experiment to prove he is gay leads to his best friend Maxie becoming pregnant.
7) Slam
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
8) In the hive
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys lives by a few simple rules, all rooted in a world of brazen retaliatory violence. Only his infant son is excluded from his hard-shell persona. Xtra hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him and his younger siblings--and Xtra just might get his wish when he's thrust into the world of the HIVE, an unorthodox alternative school full of other underprivileged boys.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Forced to move to a new town with his karate-loving uncle after the events in "Jumping off swings," high school senior Josh struggles with regrets while practicing karate with upstairs neighbor Stella, whom Josh fears will reject him because of her jealous boyfriend and his own checkered past.