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Before the ever after / by Woodson, Jacqueline.;
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Football stories.; Brain; Best friends; Friendship; Fathers and sons; Memory; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kin : rooted in hope / by Weatherford, Carole Boston,1956-; Weatherford, Jeffery Boston.;
Includes bibliographical references.A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.Ages 10 up.
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Historical fiction.; African Americans; Families; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mirror to mirror / by LaRocca, Rajani.;
Unable to find their rhythm, once-close twin sisters Maya and Chaya make a bet: they'll switch places at summer camp and whoever can keep the ruse going the longest will get to make a life-changing decision, which isn't as easy as it sounds.Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Twin sisters; Families; Anxiety; Camps;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last verse : a novel / by Frost, Caroline,author.;
From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Ambition; Betrayal; Country music; Country musicians; Determination (Personality trait); Extortion; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen seventies; Women country musicians; Women singers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Other words for home / by Warga, Jasmine.;
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Syrians; Immigrant children; Families; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Deep water / by Sumner, Jamie.;
Twelve-year-old Tully's attempt to swim across Lake Tahoe after a heartbreaking loss and become the youngest person to complete the famous "Godfather" swim takes a dangerous turn, forcing her to choose between safety and a win that could change everything.Ages 10 up.
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Long distance swimming; Mothers; Loss (Psychology); Best friends; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess / by Green, Shari,1963-;
Dealing with her mother remarrying to a man with twin daughters and her family moving, deaf sixth-grader Macy is sent next door to help eighty-six-year-old Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move into an assisted living facility.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Deaf children; Stepfamilies; Neighbors; Older people; Friendship; Moving, Household;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Every body looking / by Iloh, Candice.;
Told entirely in verse, Ada's story encompasses her earliest memories as a child, including her abuse at the hands of a young cousin, her mother's rejection and descent into addiction, and her father's attempts to create a home for his American daughter more like the one he knew in Nigeria. The present-tense of the book is Ada's first year at Howard University in Washington DC, where she must finally confront the fundamental conflict between who her family says she should be and what her body tells her she must be.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; African American universities and colleges; African American women college students; Dancers; Dysfunctional families; Nigerian Americans; Secrecy; Self-realization; Sex crimes;
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Missing Mike / by Green, Shari,1963-;
Twelve-year-old Caera Donovan and her family flee a wildfire bearing down on their hometown of Pine Grove, with no time to find Caera's beloved dog Mike. Faced with the loss of everything she knows, Caera can't stand to lose Mike as well and seeks a way to sneak back to Pine Grove. When her plans are thwarted, she must learn to embrace a new definition of "home".LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Forest fires; Pet loss; Wildfires; Human-animal relationships; Home; Evacuation of civilians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Death's country / by Romero, R. M.(Rachael Maria),1987-author.;
After drowning and making a deal with Death for a new life, Andres Santos starts over in Miami where he forms a polyamorous triad with Renee and Liora, but when Liora ends up in a coma, Andres and Renee embark on a journey into the underworld to retrieve her spirit and reunite it with her body before it is too late.Ages 14&Up.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels in verse.; Death; Sexual minorities; Soul; Voyages to the otherworld; Death; LGBTQ+ people; Soul; Voyages to the otherworld;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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