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1) The Lost
Author
Series
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
2) Sold
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies, and Raya jumps at the chance...
6) Disappeared
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lex was taken-trafficked-and now she's Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is a distant memory. But when the girls are rescued, she doesn't quite know how to be Lex again. After she moves in with her aunt and uncle, for the first time in a long time, she knows what it is to feel truly safe. Except, she doesn't trust it. Doesn't trust her new home. Doesn't trust her new friend. Doesn't trust her new life. Instead she trusts what...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
You can't rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. Katina King is the reigning teen jiu-jitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is...
10) The life I'm in
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 510L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlese Jones, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully. Turned out of the only home she has known, Char boards a bus to nowhere where she is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking. Much is revealed behind the complex system of men who take advantage of vulnerable teens in the underbelly of society. While Char might be frightened, she remains...
11) Invisible Boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nadia looks for adventure in the pages of her Superman comic books, until a mysterious boy saves her dog from drowning during a storm and then disappears. Now she finds herself in the role of Lois Lane, hunting down the scoop of the Invisible Boy. Suddenly shes in a real-life adventure thats far more dangerous than anything in her comic books.
Author
Series
Dark caravan cycle volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nalia, a gorgeous, fierce eighteen-year-old jinni, is pitted against two magnetic adversaries, both of whom want her--and need her--to make a their wishes come true"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Chidren's Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett was lucky enough to eventually escape her captor. Now a teen, she's starting a summer job at an amusement park. There are cute boys, new friends, and the chance to finally have a normal life. Her first day on the job, Scarlett is shocked to discover that a girl from the park has gone missing. Old memories come rushing back. And now, as she meets her new coworkers, one of the girls seems strangely familiar....
14) Illegal
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
What does it mean to be illegal in the United States? Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara. To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across...
15) Threads
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After Paheli escapes a terrible fate, a magical boy gives her access to the Between, allowing her to collect other women of color, hurt by men, and lead them when the boy is in peril.
Paheli was once betrayed by her mother and sold to a man in exchange for a favor. When Paheli escapes, she runs headlong into a boy with stars in his eyes. This boy, as battered as she is, tosses Paheli a box of stars before disappearing. With the stars she gains access...