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All the Bad Apples

By MoÏRa Fowley-Doyle

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A very enchanting and captivating story with a rich plot, sweeter than apples. The intense history of the family's background and Deena's search for her sister held my full attention from start to finish! = Aly

Positively Teen: A Practical Guide to a More Positive, More Confident You

By Nicola Morgan

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The book Positively Teen is filled with fun, easy strategies to help manage stress, stay alert and be positive. The book offers fascinating facts about mental and physical health, and gives readers engaging quizzes and tips on how to become a positive, understanding person. I would recommend this book to everyone, teen and adults alike, as it gives you a better understanding of yourself and others around you. - Sophie

Cursed

By Karol Ruth Silverstein

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Cursed is about the importance of persevering through difficult times in life and never giving up. Ricky is a stubborn, fourteen year old girl, who is going through many terrible ordeals in her life. She has an extremely painful illness, family problems, and is on the verge of failing ninth grade. Ricky must work to fix her terrible marks, and build as well as heal relationships with those around her. A very inspiring novel! - Natalie

I'm Not Missing: A Novel

By Carrie Fountain

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A gripping mystery novel filled with suspense! Miranda’s best friend, Syd, leaves town out of the blue. They had been friends forever, and had even decided to adopt each other when their mothers left them. With Syd’s phone as the only clue, the author takes the reader on a winding trail to find Syd. - Sophie

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

By Tiffany D. Jackson

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“When words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Andersen Steph is an artist, a singer whose music is his life and passion; his words sing to a whole community, shaking them through to their bones. When his murder cuts a promising future short, Steph’s friends Quadir and Jarrell make a deal with his sister Jasmine. If she helps figure out what happened to Steph, they will create a persona of Steph, taking his music public and making him a (posthumous) star. While his music takes on a life of its own, it becomes clear that there is more to Steph’s death than first believed. I recommend this book to anyone over the age of 11 who likes a mystery filled with complex issues of family. - Sophie

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The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question

By David Levithan, Billy Merrell

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A marvelous collection featuring true first-person stories of queer identity, written for a young adult audience!

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

By Benjamin Alire Saenz

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A multi-award winning story of friendship and personal revelation!

Queer: The LGBT Guide for Teens

By Kathy Belge, Marke Bieschke, Christian Robinson

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The perfect resource for young people exploring their sexual identity for the first time!

Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen

By Arin Andrews

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A thoughtful, witty memoir recounting the experiences of a transgender teen

Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel

By Sara Farizan

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A beautifully-rendered story about finding one's voice for the first time.

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

By S. Bear Bergman, Kate Bornstein

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A new generation of transgender, genderqueer, and trans*-spectrum people who live and believe in breaking down barriers are showing us an exciting and evolving new world of sex and gender.

Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

By David Carter

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In the 1960s, homosexuality was outlawed in many ways across the United States and the world. Then, there was Stonewall and literally overnight an LGBTQ civil rights movement was born.

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Review: The Ghost Collector

Article By Mary Ann Payne-Chase

Date: 30 Sep 2019

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The Ghost Collector

This story opens with a small family unit: Mom, Grandmom and Shelly living in a small apartment. Shelly and Grandmom have an interesting sideline of collecting ghosts in their hair and helping them find closure. Mom does not really approve, but is busy being the main source of income for the family. She does not interfere with Grandmom passing on her wisdom to her daughter.

Author Allison Mills tells the story from the point of view of Shelly, a young girl in sixth grade. She builds the relationship between Shelly and her family with love. Shelly’s difficulties at school are dealt with compassionately.

When tragedy threatens to break the family apart, Mills does a very good job of demonstrating how children deal differently with grief than what adults expect of them. Grandmom becomes the primary income earner, causing her to miss some of the pain that Shelly is dealing with. An interesting collection of characters on both sides of death help Shelly get unstuck and emerge on the other side of her grief.

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