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All Together Now - Summer Reading Teen Reads
DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
HAR--Hispanic Heritage Month
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Two sisters mourn their father's death after his plane crashes on a flight to the Dominican Republic.
22) Heart sister
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"A teenage filmmaker tries to track down the recipients of his twin sister's organs in hopes that it will help his parents move on from the loss of their daughter."--
24) Ghost boys
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After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
25) Book of the dead
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TombQuest volume 1
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When Alex Sennefer's mother uses the Lost Spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring her son from the brink of dying, she also brings back five Death Walkers, leaving Alex and his best friend to find his mother and save the world.
26) Hero
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Fourteen-year-old Billy learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Billy must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
27) Haunt me
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"Maria has never gotten over her sister Isabella's death ... and the guilt she feels about what happened. It hangs over everything she does, even an innocent slumber party with her two best friends. When one friend suggests they play a game that summons the spirits of the dead, Maria thinks it's all make-believe. But then she starts to hear from a spirit--a spirit claiming to be her sister"--Provided by publisher.
28) Funeral girl
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"When Georgia revives the spirit of a recently deceased classmate at her family's funeral home, she's forced to sort out her complex feelings about grief and mortality"--
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Young wizards volume 5
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Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
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"One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind....
32) The good sister
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When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.
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Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
36) First comes love
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Ten months after his twin sister dies, with his family falling apart, Gray Thomas meets an unusual girl at the community college who makes him think life is interesting again.
37) Mayfly
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In a chaotic future world where no one can expect to live past sixteen, four teens set out to find the "Old Guys" who may hold the key to their survival.
38) The Survival Kit
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After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Rose works through her grief by finding meaning in a survival kit that her mother left behind.
40) The last academy
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Fourteen-year-old Camden Fisher arrives at a boarding school after a falling-out with her best friend, but Lethe Academy is a strange place, where students disappear suddenly, and as she searches for answers Camden begins to fear what she will find.
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