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Kiera Johnson, a 17-year-old student at Jefferson Academy, is one of the few black kids at the school.

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“Watch out. It’s coming.” 

Alex doesn’t believe her psychiatric patient’s chilling words to be more than a mental breakdown from his stressful job as a physicist at the Complex. Until she learns there’s a lot more going on than just this one patient…like the one before who suddenly died of cardiac arrest, or the weird connection to her missing father, or her friend’s involvement in the experiment going so horribly wrong!

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Believe, by Julie Mathison, teaches us what bullying is and how your friends can help you through it.  Melanie has a hard time at school because a girl called Karen won’t stop bullying her.  Sabrina, Melanie’s best friend, helps her through the bullying and helps teach Melanie how to stand up for herself.  When Melanie gets the lead role in Peter Pan, will the bullying stop?

“Ravening Heart of the Wolf” is a book that is centered around the heroin named Manon Falderdean.  Her life has been impacted and torn apart again and again from her mother being ripped from her leading to her death, to having to stay in a constant state of fear while hiding away from a brutal warlord with her grandmother.  Her chaotic life gains another level of disarray when she is found by the warlord who then comes to collect her and kills her beloved grandmother.

“Of Curses and Kisses,” written by Sandhya Menon, was a beautiful and well written retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

The Sapling Years by Shelly Irvine is a personal memoir discussing the author's life journey. As book two of a four book series, it is correctly labeled The Sapling Years because it focuses on the first twenty-one years of Shelly’s life. The underlying theme of this book shines through every chapter and paragraph, teaching that life goes on despite trials and hardships.

Would you rather live a life full of pain and regret or live the perfect dream life? Of course, everyone would rather live a perfect life. Agnes is no exception. After her parents’ divorce, her best friend’s abandonment, and having to deal with her changing body, Agnes is more than ready to ditch her life and make up a new one. So, that’s exactly what she decides to do. While spending the summer away at her dad’s home, Agnes decides to tell everyone she meets about her life, only it isn’t her life at all.

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Keah is fairly certain she just witnessed the most recent pizza-napping…well maybe?? After the pizza guy mistakingly attempts to deliver a pizza she hadn't ordered to her door, she watches through the peephole and thinks she sees something. All Keah knows for certain is a funny smell, some strange noises, and the DS Grimes at her door are adding up to something happening in her building! And to top it off, one of the missing delivery boys is a friend of Keah’s!

Lilly’s Mom’s teams camping trip is coming up, and Lilly is upset that she can’t stay home. Lilly asks her mother that if she can’t stay home can she at least take her four cats. Her mother says that she can if she takes full responsibility for them. The next day, they set off for the camping trip. When they get to the campground, Lilly walks around looking for someone her age.

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The Persistence of Memory Book 2: All Our Yesterdays continues Book 1's love story between Daniel “Lionheart” and Nina, or Inanna. WISE is still on the hunt for ancient artifacts, and throughout the novel, readers see new sides to some of the members. Now that Nina’s true identity as a demigoddess is revealed, she embraces the discovery and even reveals some truth about Daniel’s shared past.

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