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Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today. Suddenly, at...
Author
Series
Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to armed robbery--Theo knows he is innocent. Racing the clock while Woody sits in jail, Theo will do everything in his power to help his friend and save Woody from an unforgiving system where justice is not equal for all.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Drix, who was convicted of a crime he did not commit, meets Elle, the daughter of the governor backing a project designed to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents, they have to fight family expectations and their past behaviors to be together.
5) Golden girl
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakistani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spending six months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.
Life can change in an instant. When you're wrongfully accused of a crime. When a virus shuts everything down. When the girl you love moves on. Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn't feel like coming...
8) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
10) Different days
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
11) Public enemies
Author
Series
On the run volume chase 5
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aiden and Meg Falconer have been chased from state to state by the FBI . . . and by a killer they know only as Hairless Joe. Now Hairless Joe is getting closer than ever -- and the Falconers are getting even closer than that to the truth.
12) Court of swans
Author
Series
Dericott tales volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, after her seven brothers are falsely accused of murder and treason, eighteen-year-old Delia flees their cruel stepmother and becomes a seamstress at Westminster Palace, hoping to gain their release, with Sir Geoffrey's assistance.
13) We were Kings
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twenty-year-old crime, an accelerated death penalty, and an elitist family cover-up forces eighteen-year-old Nyla to race against the death row clock to save her mother's best friend.
14) Call of the Crow
Author
Series
Skyborn volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
273 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, though not all the clans are treated equally. Ellie Meadows longed to become a Goldwing--one of the knights who protect the people--but because she came from the humble Sparrow Clan, her dream faced almost insurmountable resistance. Nox Hatcher has it even worse. Nox is a Crow, a shattered clan. They can't own businesses or run organizations, all due to a mysterious betrayal made hundreds of years ago....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in the 18th-century, Caleb is the mixed race son of a poor puppeteer. When his father is wrongfully accused of theft and sentenced to transportation, Caleb is forced to seek out his estranged aunt in Devon. When a body washes up on a nearby beach, a shattered Caleb finds himself involved in a plot that places him and his newfound family in mortal danger.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century England, commoner Nell and her best friend since infancy, Prince Ned, the future king, try to escape after being wrongfully imprisoned in the Tower of London.