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	Four Dead Queens By Astrid Scholte Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ms. Varney Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but in fact, she's one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. Varin runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from him, putting his life in danger. When Varin attempts to retrieve the package, he and Keralie find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that leaves all four of Quadara's queens dead.
	Guts By Raina Telgemeier. Read by: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz In graphic novel form, Raina Telegmeier relates her struggles with stress and anxiety as a child.
	Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell Read by: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?
	The Truth as Told By Mason Buttle By Leslie Connor Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason’s learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason’s best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family’s orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can’t understand why Lieutenant Baird won’t believe the story Mason has told about that day.
	Echo By Pam Munoz Ryan Read by: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.
	Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus By Dusti Bowling Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again.
	Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.
	I'm Not Dying with you Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jeserig Over the course of one night, two girls with two very different backgrounds must rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has enveloped their city. YOUNG ADULT CONTENT. NOT AVAILABLE IN OUR LIBRARY
	Out of My Mind By Sharon M. Draper. Read by: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jeserig Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
	Swing by Kwame Alexander Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jeserig Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah’s love interest since third grade, Sam, will never take it past the “best friend” zone. Noah would love to retire his bat and accept the status quo, but Walt has big plans for them both, which include making the best baseball comeback ever, getting the girl, and finally finding cool.
	Washington Black By Esi Edugyan Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ms. Taulbee Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self.
	I'll Give You the Sun By Jandy Nelson Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways… until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else – an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they'd have a chance to remake their world. YOUNG ADULT CONTENT. NOT AVAILABLE IN OUR LIBRARY
	When By Victoria Laurie Read by: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father’s premature death for Maddie and her family to realize that these mysterious digits are actually death dates, and just like birthdays, everyone has one.
	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library By Chris Grabenstein. Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell "Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.
	The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb (book 4) By Rick Riordan. Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ms. Taulbee "In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--Provided by publisher.
	So B. It By Sarah Weeks. Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell After spending her life with her mentally disabled mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
	The Art of Racing in the Rain By Garth Stein Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Woodard Denny Swift is a Formula One race car driver who understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate everyday life. Besides his career, Denny has three loves of his life -- his beautiful wife, their young daughter and his best friend, which is a dog that wants to be reincarnated into a human.
	The Sweet Far Thing By Libba Bray Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mallin It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds. YOUNG ADULT CONTENT
	Space Case : A Moon Base Alpha Novel By Stuart Gibbs. Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz "Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--Provided by publisher.
	The Night Diary By Veera Hiranandani Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
	Educated By Tara Westover Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ms. Paramski Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling supplies and sleeping with her “head for the hills” bag.
	The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born, It's Grown By Daniel Coyle Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mr. Frank The traditional view is that talent is innate - you've either got it or you haven't. But in The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle reveals that the reality is very different. Drawing on the latest findings of scientists and educationalists, and looking at disciplines ranging from maths to music, he shows how the brain can be physically rewired and developed by training to create a 'talent code'.
	Rules By Cynthia Lord Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Weidemann Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
	Five Feet Apart By Rachael Lippincott ; with Mikki Daughtry with Tobias Iaconis. Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety.

	One of Us is Lying By Karen McManus Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Jeserig The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this.
	Fish in a Tree By Lynda Mullaly Hunt Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jeserig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Sullivan, Mrs. Jankiewicz "Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--Provided by publisher
	Opposite of Always Author Justin A. Reynolds Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mrs. Jankiewicz Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and John Green.
	RED SCARF GIRL Author: Ji-li Jiang Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ms. Sigler, Ms. Bunge, Ms. Paprock-Landon, Mrs. Jeserig This autobiography is the true story of one girl's determination to hold her family together during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
	It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime By Trevor Noah Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Mrs. Bunge, Mrs. Jeserig The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, tells the story of growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this young readers’ adaptation of his bestselling adult memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.
	The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Mr. Dohrmann, Mrs. Jeserig Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
	Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Jankiewicz ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Mrs. Bendall, Mrs. Jeserig This is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.
	Ghost By Jason Reynolds Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Bendall, Mrs. Jankiewicz, "Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--Provided by publisher.
	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Read By: ⭐️⭐️⭐️- Mrs. Weidemann "Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive."--Provided by publisher.