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1) Wildcard
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Warcross volume 2
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"Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats"--
"Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Knowing the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she is determined to put a stop to his plans. But someone has put a bounty on Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless...
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Loveboat volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION WEN, A.H.
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TEEN FICTION WEN, A.H.
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When Ever Wong's parents sent her away fro the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire....
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Bone witch volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CHUPECO, R.
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TEEN FICTION CHUPECO, R.
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Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 650.1 PHA
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TEEN 650.1 PHA
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No matter who you are or where you come from, this book can help you define success, envision it, and make it happen in school, in your personal life, and at work. Get ready to awaken all the awesomeness that is already inside of you --Provided by Publisher.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CHAO, G.
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TEEN FICTION CHAO, G.
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths-- that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
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Ms. Marvel (2014) volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J SUPERHERO MS. MARVEL
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J SUPERHERO MS. MARVEL
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GRAPHIC NOVEL Ms. MARVEL
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GRAPHIC NOVEL Ms. MARVEL
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Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City -- until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a secret behind them, as well. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her be too much to bear? Kamala has...
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Tiger at midnight volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION TEERDHALA, S.
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TEEN FICTION TEERDHALA, S.
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"Esha lost everything in the royal coup-and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she's made the guilty pay. Now she's been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha. Kunal has been a soldier since childhood. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path-even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has only been growing more volatile. When Esha and Kunal's...
8) Internment
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"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. And one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." And now, Layla and her parents are suddenly taken from their home and forced into an...
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"10:00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song "Heartbeat" in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. She's about to debut on The Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. But right now? She's in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger. 11:00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION AZAD, N.
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TEEN FICTION AZAD, N.
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Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her when she was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of the djinn, and the very real dangers of a magical battlefield....
11) A taste for love
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION YEN, J.
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TEEN FICTION YEN, J.
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Both high school senior Liza Yang and her mother share a love and talent for baking but disagree on the subject of dating, especially when Mrs. Yang turns her annual baking contest into a matchmaking scheme.
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To all the boys I've loved before volume 1
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"Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"--
13) Starfish
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION BOWMAN, A.D.
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TEEN FICTION BOWMAN, A.D.
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Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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J FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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TEEN FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN CD FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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TEEN CD FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J 940.5317 LOH
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J 940.5317 LOH
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"The events surrounding the U.S. Japanese internment camps during World War II did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center as readers act out the scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are...
16) We are not free
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CHEE, T.
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TEEN FICTION CHEE, T.
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 305.895 YOO
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TEEN 305.895 YOO
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN SUMMER READING 305.895 YOO
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TEEN SUMMER READING 305.895 YOO
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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
19) A phở love story
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LE, L.
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TEEN FICTION LE, L.
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Bảo Nguye̋n would describe himself as steady and strong: his grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents' phở restaurant - as his parents' fifth favorite employee. Linh Mai would describe herself as a firecracker: stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. She dreams of pursuing a career in art, while working practically full-time at her family's phở restaurant. Bao and Linh have never even had...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN CD FICTION LEE, S.
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TEEN CD FICTION LEE, S.
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--