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Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny tries to fit in with his new, privileged peers, Nasir spends more time with his cousin, Wallace, who is being evicted. Nasir can’t help but wonder why the neighborhood is falling over itself to help Bunny when Wallace is in trouble.
When Wallace makes a bet against Bunny, Nasir is faced with an impossible decision—maybe a dangerous one.
Told from alternating perspectives, After the Shot Drops is a heart-pounding story about the responsibilities of great talent and the importance of compassion.

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2. 8 Books Remix: Randy Ribay

Librarian Natalie McCall knew she wanted to chat with Randy Ribay after reading his novel After the Shot Drops, her favorite book about school and basketball since Hoop Dreams. His latest book, Patron Saints of Nothing, is a National Book Award finalist. It's a gripping coming-of-age story about a teenager who travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth about his cousin's life and murder.

Randy's eight books ranged from children's fantasy to b-boy poetry to short stories. The two James Baldwin fans talked about everything from writing as an instrument for justice to trying to understand your 8 year old mind to the life changing magic of seeing yourself in a book.
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Librarian Natalie McCall knew she wanted to chat with Randy Ribay after reading his novel After the Shot Drops, her favorite book about school and basketball since Hoop Dreams. His latest book, Patron Saints of Nothing,&nbsp;is a National Book Award finalist.

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A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family. Written in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Peña, and Walter Dean Myers, After the Shot Drops now has 3 starred reviews!

* "Belongs on the shelf alongside contemporary heavy-hitters like Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give, Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds's All-American Boys, and Nic Stone's Dear Martin."--School Library Journal, starred review

Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny tries to fit in with his new, privileged peers, Nasir spends more time with his cousin, Wallace, who is being evicted. Nasir can't help but wonder why the neighborhood is falling over itself to help Bunny when Wallace is in trouble.

When Wallace makes a bet against Bunny, Nasir is faced with an impossible decision--maybe a dangerous one.

Told from alternating perspectives, After the Shot Drops is a heart-pounding story about the responsibilities of great talent and the importance of compassion.

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Cliff Hubbard is a huge loser. Literally. His nickname at Happy Valley High School is Neanderthal because he's so enormous-6'6" and 250 pounds to be exact. He has nobody at school, and life in his trailer-park home has gone from bad to worse ever since his older brother's suicide.
There's no one Cliff hates more than the nauseatingly cool quarterback Aaron Zimmerman. Then Aaron returns to school after a near-death experience with a bizarre claim: while he was unconscious he saw God, who gave him a list of things to do to make Happy Valley High suck less. And God said there's only one person who can help: Neanderthal.
To his own surprise, Cliff says he's in. As he and Aaron make their way through the List, which involves a vindictive English teacher, a mysterious computer hacker, a decidedly unchristian cult of Jesus Teens, the local drug dealers, and the meanest bully at HVHS, Cliff feels like he's part of something for the first time since losing his brother. But fixing a broken school isn't as simple as it seems, and just when Cliff thinks they've completed the List, he realizes their mission hits closer to home than he ever imagined.

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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.

In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.

But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose.

But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.

And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.

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Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is Jack—his very attractive but moody captain.

A collection of the first half, freshmen and sophomore year, of the megapopular webcomic series of the same name, Check, Please!: #Hockey is the first book of a hilarious and stirring two-volume coming-of-age story about hockey, bros, and trying to find yourself during the best four years of your life. This book includes updated art and a hilarious, curated selection of Bitty's beloved tweets.

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A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach.

But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told.

Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.

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Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure—media and otherwise—is building up in Riley's life.

On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it's really like to be a gender fluid teenager. But just as Riley's starting to settle in at school—even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast—the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley's real identity, threatening exposure. And Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created—a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in—or stand up, come out, and risk everything.

From debut author Jeff Garvin comes a powerful and uplifting portrait of a modern teen struggling with high school, relationships, and what it means to be a person.

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With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro “T” Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny, returns from a tour in Iraq with a devastating case of PTSD. In a desperate effort to save Manny from himself and pull their family back together, T’s fiery sister, Xochitl, hoodwinks her brothers into a cathartic road trip.
Told through T’s honest voice, this is a candid exploration of mental illness, socioeconomic pressures, and the many inescapable highs and lows that come with growing up—including falling in love.

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Who are the Nowhere Girls?
They’re everygirl. But they start with just three:
Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.
Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.
Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android.
When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang 🤬, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.
Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of 🤬 culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

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Then…
Annabelle’s life wasn’t perfect, but it was full—full of friends, family, love. And a boy…whose attention Annabelle found flattering and unsettling all at once.
Until that attention intensified.
Now…
Annabelle is running. Running from the pain and the tragedy from the past year. With only Grandpa Ed and the journal she fills with words she can’t speak out loud, Annabelle runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, and toward a destination she doesn’t understand but is determined to reach. With every beat of her heart, every stride of her feet, Annabelle steps closer to healing—and the strength she discovers within herself to let love and hope back into her life.
Annabelle’s journey is the ultimate testament to the human heart, and how it goes on after being broken.

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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.

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"Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe" by Preston Norton-Book Review

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It's not often when I give a book a very bad review. In fact, I think I've only been truly displeased with the outcome of a story/series just once. And the same somewhat goes for a book I get really hooked on within the first few pages. Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton was one of those books that got me hooked within the first few pages, and before I was halfway through, I was 99% sure that I was going to give it the highest rating possible.

The story centers on teenager Clifford Hubbard who doesn't quite fit in with the regular crowd of high schoolers. He's abnormally large, and although any football coach would love to see him on the defensive line of their team, Cliff hates sports. Despite his size, he gets bullied enough by the jocks, especially one in particular named Aaron Zimmerman, that he's come to resent the it even more.

Life at home isn't great. Even though he and his brother are loved by their mom, their dad is pretty much the antithesis of what she is. But he tolerated it. All of it. That is, until his brother killed himself. And that's where the story begins.

The author introduces us to Clifford a year after his brother's death, and we see that things are not so great for him. They're actually even worse than before. He gets teased constantly, of course, but due to his size, he also gets stereotyped in several ways, none of them in a good and decent way. And not just by his peers, but by his teachers as well. Sadly, this is not unrealistic.

Told in first person, we get a real look into what and how Cliff contemplates events in his life. His narratives are often humorous, sometimes poignant, all believable. It's a story that's sounds familiar, yet unique at the same time. Norton does a very good job in making this character sound exactly like any other teen going through hard times, and the death of a loved one, that we very quickly are able to relate to him in one way or another.

When Cliff decides that he wants to actually kill the number one person on his hate list, who happens to be Aaron, we can imagine him seething with rage about it, because anyone who's gotten bullied before knows how mentally and emotionally damaging that can be for said person. Fortunately for us readers, the story doesn't end in a murder. Though something near tragic happens to Aaron, things change for Cliff in a very unexpected. Aaron asks his help in making their school a better place, or in the words of the book's overview, "while [Aaron] was unconscious he saw God, who gave him a list of things to do to make Happy Valley High suck less. And God said there's only one person who can help: Neanderthal."

From this point on, Norton gives us a delightful story of Aaron and Cliff's journey to fulfill God's list for Aaron, from Cliff's unusual acceptance of Aaron's list to them gathering a very unlikely group of misfits together to make it all happen. The list itself makes the story even more interesting and you can't help but want to be part of this team.
You are sucked in, engaged in their purpose and their set of goals, which includes dealing with a villainous-like teacher, a secret hacker, a very unchristian so-called Christian group, and the biggest bully in the school. All this plays into several sensitive subject matters that many people have to deal with, such as child abuse, suicide, bullying, and homophobia. Cliff's narrative just keeps you wanting to know more, especially in how he deals with such things, including Cliff's brother's death, which is a constant throughout the book, mixing in heartache and tears in between the laughs, and even sometimes within the laughs.

In the end, you find that Cliff's story is not so unique in the sense that we all moments of grief and moments of joy, sometimes intermixed. It's very heartening, sometimes overwhelming, but also hopeful. Yes, you will cry, but you will laugh, too. The way that Cliff handles each situation feels genuine, feels real and from the heart.

To this, I commend Preston Norton for what he's done in creating Cliff, and in writing the story in a way that doesn't feel rushed or easy or preachy. He gives us a chance to think through all that's happened in this short span of Cliff's life - to feel it and learn from it. And hopefully, with that in mind you'll be thankful for having known Clifford Hubbard, too.

Get a copy of Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe at the following:

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It's not often when I give a book a very bad review. In fact, I think I've only been truly displeased with the outcome of a story/series just once. And the same somewhat goes for a book I get really hooked on within the first few pages.

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Epic Author Facts: Justina Ireland, author of "Dread Nation" 

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Author Ngozi Ukazu talks about her graphic novel "Check Please"

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Ngozi Ukazu on "Check Please!" | 2019 National Book Festival

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Meet Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, author of "Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree"

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Meet Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, author of "Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree"

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Meet Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani - Finalist in the NLNG Prize for LIterature 2019

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Daylight creeps into the game cave.

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A Teen Vogue Best Gift Book for Teens
A Texas Tayshas List Selection

"Told via T's honest, engaging, and often-naive voice, the story openly explores mental illness spawned by war and how the illness affects family members and those around them. This powerful story also reminds readers that the paths to their dreams may have to take detours but are still attainable." - Booklist, starred review

"In a story about mending broken ties, making sacrifices, and visiting landscapes and loved ones from the past, Flores-Scott invites readers to follow T on a road trip that brings to life the Avilas' Latino heritage and Manny's disorder. . . it celebrates many things: family love, realized dreams, and the taste of a green chile cheeseburger. " - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Adeptly provides a window and a mirror of Latinx culture and reimagines the American road trip as an individual journey, one deeply anchored in sacrifice for those we love." - School Library Journal, starred review

"Written in T's vulnerable, observant voice, 'American Road Trip' holds true to classic road-trip themes like the emotional power of singalongs and unexpected detours, but it also wades into the darker waters of mental illness with both realism and sensitivity." - The New York Times

"American Road Trip is as multifaceted as its protagonist, Mexican-American teen Teodoro (known as "T"), wrapping a moving multigenerational story into a endearing coming-of-age tale." - The A... More...

A Teen Vogue Best Gift Book for Teens
A Texas Tayshas List Selection

"Told via T's honest, engaging, and often-naive voice, the story openly explores mental illness spawned by war and how the illness affects family members and those around them. This powerful story also reminds readers that the paths to their dreams may have to take detours but are still attainable." - Booklist, starred review

"In a story about mending broken ties, making sacrifices, and visiting landscapes and loved ones from the past, Flores-Scott invites readers to follow T on a road trip that brings to life the Avilas' Latino heritage and Manny's disorder. . . it celebrates many things: family love, realized dreams, and the taste of a green chile cheeseburger. " - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Adeptly provides a window and a mirror of Latinx culture and reimagines the American road trip as an individual journey, one deeply anchored in sacrifice for those we love." - School Library Journal, starred review

"Written in T's vulnerable, observant voice, 'American Road Trip' holds true to classic road-trip themes like the emotional power of singalongs and unexpected detours, but it also wades into the darker waters of mental illness with both realism and sensitivity." - The New York Times

"American Road Trip is as multifaceted as its protagonist, Mexican-American teen Teodoro (known as "T"), wrapping a moving multigenerational story into a endearing coming-of-age tale." - The A.V. Club

"Flores-Scott's latest explores the fragile bonds of a fractured family . . . Teodoro's funny, wry first-person narration features quick, emotionally charged sentences that provide the narrative a breathless, hard-hitting quality. This novel bursts with much-needed optimism. A compassionate success. " - Kirkus Reviews

"Flores-Scott's character development is extraordinary. . .Readers will find themselves intimately connected to and cheering for the success of these siblings. With strong messages of hope, survival, and the power of family, American Road Trip is a must-read." - VOYA

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Patrick Flores-Scott is the author of the award-winning novel Jumped In. He currently teaches struggling elementary readers and math students. He's written for theater and the slam poetry stage. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his family.

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Reviews

A Teen Vogue Best Gift Book for Teens
A Texas Tayshas List Selection

"Told via T's honest, engaging, and often-naive voice, the story openly explores mental illness spawned by war and how the illness affects family members and those around them. This powerful story also reminds readers that the paths to their dreams may have to take detours but are still attainable." - Booklist, starred review

"In a story about mending broken ties, making sacrifices, and visiting landscapes and loved ones from the past, Flores-Scott invites readers to follow T on a road trip that brings to life the Avilas' Latino heritage and Manny's disorder. . . it celebrates many things: family love, realized dreams, and the taste of a green chile cheeseburger. " - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Adeptly provides a window and a mirror of Latinx culture and reimagines the American road trip as an individual journey, one deeply anchored in sacrifice for those we love." - School Library Journal, starred review

"Written in T's vulnerable, observant voice, 'American Road Trip' holds true to classic road-trip themes like the emotional power of singalongs and unexpected detours, but it also wades into the darker waters of mental illness with both realism and sensitivity." - The New York Times

"American Road Trip is as multifaceted as its protagonist, Mexican-American teen Teodoro (known as "T"), wrapping a moving multigenerational story into a endearing coming-of-age tale." - The A... More...

A Teen Vogue Best Gift Book for Teens
A Texas Tayshas List Selection

"Told via T's honest, engaging, and often-naive voice, the story openly explores mental illness spawned by war and how the illness affects family members and those around them. This powerful story also reminds readers that the paths to their dreams may have to take detours but are still attainable." - Booklist, starred review

"In a story about mending broken ties, making sacrifices, and visiting landscapes and loved ones from the past, Flores-Scott invites readers to follow T on a road trip that brings to life the Avilas' Latino heritage and Manny's disorder. . . it celebrates many things: family love, realized dreams, and the taste of a green chile cheeseburger. " - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Adeptly provides a window and a mirror of Latinx culture and reimagines the American road trip as an individual journey, one deeply anchored in sacrifice for those we love." - School Library Journal, starred review

"Written in T's vulnerable, observant voice, 'American Road Trip' holds true to classic road-trip themes like the emotional power of singalongs and unexpected detours, but it also wades into the darker waters of mental illness with both realism and sensitivity." - The New York Times

"American Road Trip is as multifaceted as its protagonist, Mexican-American teen Teodoro (known as "T"), wrapping a moving multigenerational story into a endearing coming-of-age tale." - The A.V. Club

"Flores-Scott's latest explores the fragile bonds of a fractured family . . . Teodoro's funny, wry first-person narration features quick, emotionally charged sentences that provide the narrative a breathless, hard-hitting quality. This novel bursts with much-needed optimism. A compassionate success. " - Kirkus Reviews

"Flores-Scott's character development is extraordinary. . .Readers will find themselves intimately connected to and cheering for the success of these siblings. With strong messages of hope, survival, and the power of family, American Road Trip is a must-read." - VOYA

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At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.

In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.

But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose.

But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. 

And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.

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Sticks And Scones (A Check Please Fan Song) by ☆Marvel0us☆

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This was a nice little fan song I did to celebrate the completion of a webcomic series called Check Please. Forgive me for my high notes they are very hard lol.
Link to the website: https://www.checkpleasecomic.com/comic/01-01-01
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Hear an excerpt from "Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree" by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

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Hear an excerpt from "Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree" by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

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Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival.

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Hear an excerpt from "American Road Trip" by Patrick Flores-Scott

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Hear an excerpt from "American Road Trip" by Patrick Flores-Scott

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American Road Trip audiobook by Patrick Flores-Scott - Rakuten Kobo

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Listen to "American Road Trip" by Patrick Flores-Scott available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by Luis Moreno. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. A heartwrenching YA coming of age story about three siblings on a roadtrip in search of healing.

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Hear an excerpt from "Symptoms of Being Human" by Jeff Garvin

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Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist * YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List * 2017 Rainbow
A sharply honest and moving debut perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ask the Passengers.

Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure-media and otherwise-is building up in Riley's life.

On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it's really like to be a gender fluid teenager. But just as Riley's starting to settle in at school-even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast-the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley's real identity, threatening exposure. And Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created-a lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in-or stand up, come out, and risk everything.

From debut author Jeff Garvin comes a powerful and uplifting portrait of a modern teen struggling with high school, relationships, and what it means to be a person.

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Symptoms of Being Human - Jeff Garvin - Hardcover

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Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist * YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List * 2017 Rainbow A sharply honest and moving debut perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ask the Passengers.

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Listen to an excerpt from THE NOWHERE GIRLS by Amy Reed and read by Rebekkah Ross

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Look, Watch and Listen    "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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Look, Watch and Listen    "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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A Heart in a Body in the World 1 Annabelle Agnelli is trying to hold it together in the parking lot of Dick's Drive-In. After what just happened, she's stunned. Frozen. And then-imagine it-Annabelle's wrecked self suddenly takes off like a lightning bolt.

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Book Trailer for Deb Caletti's "A Heart in a Body in the World"

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