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If These Wings Could Fly
The crows have overrun Auburn, Pennsylvania. For senior high school student Leighton Barnes and her two younger sisters, the crows offer...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 28, 20211 min read
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One of Us is Lying
Five students are serving detention when one of them, Simon, suddenly dies from anaphylactic shock and dies. It seems someone laced his...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 21, 20211 min read
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Burn Our Bodies Down
Seventeen-year-old Margot doesn't know anything about her mother, a woman whose past is a secret and who is both negligent and...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 14, 20211 min read
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The Kingdom
In this award-winning science fiction mystery by Jess Rothenberg, Ana is a fantasist, a half-human/half-android entertainer working at...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 7, 20211 min read
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Grown
When seventeen-year-old Enchanted Jones attends an audition for a B.E.T. singing show, rap sensation Korey Fields takes her under his...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 31, 20211 min read
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Born a Crime
In this award-winning autobiography the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Trevor Noah talks about being born to a black mother...

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Jan 24, 20211 min read
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Truly Devious
Stevie Bell, an amateur crime sleuth who enjoys reading detective stories and listening to true crime podcasts, is a new student at the...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 17, 20211 min read
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
In this adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's national bestseller, Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds examines the roots of slavery in...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 8, 20211 min read
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Carry On
Simon Snow aka "the chosen one" is about to start his final year of magic school. He's completely inept with a wand, was just dumped by...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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Gym Candy
Mick Johnson doesn't want to be the best running back of all time...at least not at first. It's his father, who had a short-lived stint...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 6, 20201 min read
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The Poet X
Xiomara "X" Barista is a budding young poet who wants more than anything to join her school's Spoken Word Club. She writes constantly and...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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We Are Okay
It's winter break of Marin's first year at college in New York City. All the other students have gone home, but Marin has no home to go...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 17, 20201 min read
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When You Were Everything
Cleo and Layla have been best friends for years, but when Layla becomes close to girls in the school’s chorus which she hopes to join,...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 15, 20201 min read
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The Giver of Stars
In this historical fiction title, the author depicts rural Kentucky during the Great Depression when the Works Progress Administration...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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His Hideous Heart
His Hideous Heart is a collection of thirteen tales by popular young adult authors based on works by Edgar Allan Poe. For instance,...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 1, 20201 min read
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A Room Away from the Wolves
After being continuously harassed by her stepsisters, Bina runs away to the city, determined to stay at the same all-girls boarding house...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 26, 20201 min read
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A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
In this prequel to The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins tells the story of Panem a few years after the war. Coriolanus Snow, whose...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury, one of my favorite writers, certainly has a way with words! I don't think there's any writer as adept at capturing the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 14, 20201 min read
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Lantern's Ember
Jack is an immortal "lantern" in New England. He's skeletal and carries his spirit around in a pumpkin as he guards a portal to the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 7, 20201 min read
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
When Pippa Fitz-Amobi started her AP Capstone project, all she wanted to do was show that there was a possibility that Sal Singh did not...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 27, 20201 min read
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