Jasmine Warga
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Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there's a problem with his programming. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers that Mars...
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The Muslim Experience - Chapter Books
2021 Summer Top Picks for Middle Schoolers
2022 Bluestem Award Nominees
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2021 Summer Top Picks for Middle Schoolers
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"A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America...
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
Arab American Heritage Month (WPLD)
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2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
Arab American Heritage Month (WPLD)
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Told in their alternating voices, twelve-year-old neighbors and former best friends Cora Hamed and Quinn McCauley begin working together to open a wormhole so they can travel through time to prevent the school shooting that resulted in the deaths of Cora's sister and Quinn's brother.
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha. The perfect next read for fans of The Swifts, Kate DiCamillo, and Erin Entrada Kelly. A painting has been stolen...!When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the...
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Told in two voices, Finnegan, a rescue dog mourning the loss of his previous life, is paired with Chase, a young orphaned cheetah, and together the two learn to trust again while discovering friendship and family.
"Finnegan is a rescue dog with a broken heart. Chase is a newly orphaned cheetah cub. The two animals couldn't be more different. But one day, they are brought together for the unlikeliest of reasons: Finnegan must help Chase gain the confidence...
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Arab American Heritage Month (WPLD)
OBD Arab American Heritage Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD YA Anti-Romance - YOUTH
Teen Mental Health (Fiction)
OBD Arab American Heritage Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD YA Anti-Romance - YOUTH
Teen Mental Health (Fiction)
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Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel's...
7) The claiming
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Last resort (Scholastic Press) volume 2
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For the first time, Teddy is actually excited for the school year to start. His new neighbors, Lila and Caleb, are transferring to his school, which means he'll finally have real friends! But Teddy has a secret he's desperate to protect -- one that explains why none of his classmates have spoken to him in years ... And that's not all. Despite having sent the fire maiden back through the portal, strange things keep happening at the Castle Hill Inn....
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New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati...
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While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.
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"A sus dieciséis años, Aysel tiene una sola obsesión: suicidarse. No sabe cuál es la mejor manera, pero es lo que desea. Su vida no ha sido fácil y lo único en lo que parece ser buena es estudiando física, y por lo mismo quiere convertir su energía potencial en nada. El problema es que no está segura de poder reunir el valor necesario para acabar con su vida. Navegando en Internet, Aysel da con un foro de suicidas en potencia y conoce a un...
11) House party
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"Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!"-- Provided by publisher








