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Grown
$19.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller “Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls. Gr
- Author: Jackson, Tiffany D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062840355
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Drill
$17.99 Add to cartThe first rule of lockdown: Find a safe place to hide.
Ava is having a really bad day. Her parents are getting divorced. She just had a big argument with her two best friends. And she forgot to charge
- Author: Holt, K. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1338739581
- Language: English
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The Shape of Thunder
$18.99 Read moreAn extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing–and how friendship can be magical.
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend,
- Author: Warga, Jasmine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0062956671
- Language: English
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So Far from the Bamboo Grove
$9.99 Add to cartIn the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl l
- Author: Watkins, Yoko Kawashima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0688131158
- Language: English
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Look at This Blue
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry
Winner of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book Award
Finalist for the 2023 Firecracker Award
Finalist for the 2023 ASLE Creative Book Award
Interweaving eleg
- Author: Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1566896207
- Language: English
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Monsters of Men: With Bonus Short Story
$14.99 Add to cartThe riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, reissued with compelling covers — and a bonus short story in each book.
“This is science fiction at its best, and is a s- Series: Chaos Walking #3
- Author: Ness, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0763676195
- Language: English
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The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World
$29.95 Read moreIn today’s modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it ha… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1634312309
- Language: English
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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement
$19.95 Add to cartAmerica in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns f
- Author: Yoo, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1324002875
- Language: English
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Wringer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartNewbery Honor Book * ALA Notable Children’s Book
“Deeply felt. Presents a moral question with great care and sensitivity.” —The New York Times
“A spellbinding story about rites of passage.” —Publishe
- Author: Spinelli, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0064405788
- Language: English
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The Night She Disappeared
$12.99 Add to cartGabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part-time as a delivery girl at Pete’s Pizza. One night, Kayla–another delivery girl–goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed kidnapper
- Author: Henry, April
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1250016746
- Language: English
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A Terrible Thing Happened
$15.99 Add to cartA gently told and tenderly illustrated story for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide,
- Author: Holmes, Margaret M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 1557986428
- Language: English
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Hate List
$12.99 Add to cartFor readers of Marieke Nijkamp’s This Is Where It Ends, a powerful and timely contemporary classic about the aftermath of a school shooting.
Five months ago, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, opened- Author: Brown, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316556785
- Language: English
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother
$15.99 Add to cartA powerful National Book Award Finalist from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Monster. “This novel is like photorealism; it paints a vivid and genuine portrait of life that will have a palpable ef
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0060582936
- Language: English
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Fist of the North Star, Vol. 5
$19.99 Read moreIn the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious m… [more below]
- Series: Fist of the North Star #5
- Author: Buronson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1974721604
- Language: English
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The Story of Ferdinand
$18.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture
A true classic with a timeless message, The Story of Ferdinand has enchanted readers since it was first published in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt t- Author: Leaf, Munro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 1936
- ISBN10: 0670674249
- Language: English
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Monster
$19.99 Add to cartThis New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial.
Presented as a screenplay of Steve’s own
- Series: Monster
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0060280778
- Language: English
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If I Grow Up
$10.99 Add to cartIn a gripping novel with a plot pulled from the headlines, Todd Strasser turns his attention to gang life in the inner-city projects. DeShawn is a teenager growing up in the projects. Most of his frie… [more below]
- Author: Strasser, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416994432
- Language: English
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The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
$12.99 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!
The Chosen meets Adam Silvera in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and the hatred t
A WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD WINNER!- Author: Blum, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593525833
- Language: English
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The Loners
$11.99 Read moreIt was just another ordinary day at McKinley High–until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died
- Series: Quarantine #1
- Author: Thomas, Lex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1606844385
- Language: English
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Ghost Boys
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller!
A heartbreaking and powerful novel about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Onl- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316262285
- Language: English
