TITLE: Dig
AUTHOR: A. S. King CALL NUMBER: FIC Kin - NOVELS SUMMARY: Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter. |
TITLE: The Poet X
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo CALL NUMBER: FIC Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world. |
TITLE: We Are Okay
AUTHOR: Nina LaCour CALL NUMBER: FIC LaC - NOVELS SUMMARY: Running back to college and shutting out everyone from her life in California after a traumatic summer that nobody else knows about, Marin is forced to confront what happened during a lonely, fateful winter break. |
TITLE: March, Book Three
AUTHOR: John Lewis CALL NUMBER: 323 Lew SUMMARY: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement. |
TITLE: Bone Gap
AUTHOR: Laura Ruby CALL NUMBER: FIC Rub - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying. |
TITLE: I'll Give You the Sun
AUTHOR: Jandy Nelson CALL NUMBER: FIC Nel - NOVELS SUMMARY: A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah. |
TITLE: Midwinter Blood
AUTHOR: Marcus Sedgwick CALL NUMBER: FIC Sed - FANTASY SUMMARY: Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited-throughout various time periods-by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant. |
TITLE: Where Things Come Back
AUTHOR: John Core CALL NUMBER: FIC Wha - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance. |
TITLE: Ship Breaker
AUTHOR: Paolo Bacigalupi CALL NUMBER: FIC Bac - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. |