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"Destini Fletcher hates Tubman High from day one. When Tyron Becker singles her out, Destini is thrilled to be a part of Tyron's crowd. But he scorns her budding friendships with Alonee, Jaris, and Sami, and mocks her attempts to earn good grades. Do her excuses for Tyron's increasingly brutal behavior and bad attitude put her at risk?"--Publisher's web site.
2) The stranger
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Beginning his junior year at Cesar Chavez High School, Ernesto Sandoval didn't want to move back to the barrio until he sees Naomi Martinez and finds himself falling in love.
3) Dark secrets
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Ernesto tries to understand why Naomi puts up with physical abuse from her boyfriend Clay and finds himself intervening to protect her.
4) Deliverance
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"Naomi can't believe her good luck. First she gets a job at the local frozen yogurt shop. Then she gets an immediate raise. Her dream car is withing her grasp. But why does the shop's owner keep staring at her so intently? And Clay Aguirre is still stalking her, trying to get her back."--P. [4] of cover.
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Jaris Spain has a hard time believing in himself. Between his pessimistic father, his falsely optimistic mother, his failure at sports, difficulty in the classroom, and inability to be noticed by the one girl that matters to him, Jaris struggles to find his own place in the world.
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"The robberies in the barrio are becoming increasingly bold and unsettling. After a recent robbery, Ernesto swears that he recognizes a suspect fleeing the crime scene. But is he jumping to conclusions unfairly? After all, Cruz isn't the only tattooed guy known to wear a hoodie in the neighborhood."--P. [4] of cover.
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"What is Paul Morales hiding? Pretty and popular Carmen Ibarra is excited when Paul asks her on a date. But she has to convince her family that Paul is respectable, a difficult task considering his gangbanger friends. Will bad-boy Paul break Carmen's heart or is he the real deal?"--P. [4] of cover.
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"The split in the Martinez family is real and painful. Expelled from the family, the two oldest make their own way. Felix Martinez is a hard man to love. But Naomi is determined to heal her family. And she decides to take matters into her own hands to bring together two volatile personalities."--P. [4] of cover.
10) If you were mine
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When another girl becomes attracted to him, Jaris begins to have doubts about his relationship with Sereeta.
11) Time of courage
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Ernesto knows he should be supporting Carmen Ibarra's father who is running for city council against the corrupt incumbent Monte Esposito, but Monte is his girlfriend Naomi's cousin and he doesn't want to upset her already volatile family.
12) Facing it
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While helping out two rocker friends by fronting for their band, high school senior Oliver Randall finds his new-found fame intoxicating.
13) The water's edge
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"Ernesto began the year a stranger in a new school. Now, with their junior year ending, the students at Chavez High are looking to the future and making plans. But what will that mean for some of them? Will they go on to pursue their dreams or will they be stuck in dead-end jobs in the barrio?"--P. [4] of cover.
14) To die for
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When local homeless man Griff Slocum is found murdered, Chavez High students fall under suspicion including Humberto Gomez, who suddenly has money to throw around.
15) Second chances
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Wanting desperately to get some money to help out his grandparents, high school senior Kevin considers getting mixed up with the wrong crowd.
16) The one for me
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Although Denique is attracted to Trevor, she feels she must focus her attention on graduating from high school and getting a job so her family can move out of the projects.
17) Misjudged
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When Julio Avila, star of the high school track team, asks out shy, insecure teen Mona Lisa, she is thrilled. However Mona's mother disapproves of the match because the Avilas are not the "right sort of people."
18) Bad blood
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Naomi's trouble-making, seventeen-year-old cousin Carlotta is coming to live with the Martinez family and she is a handful, a spoiled brat with a chip on her shoulder who likes to lie and flirt.