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Teen Urban Lit
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Adams, Lenora Baby Girl A young mother fights for love and respect. Teen Fiction Book |
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Booth, Coe. Bronxwood "Tyrell's father is just out of jail, and Tyrell doesn't know how to deal with that...Tyrell can see the crash that's coming -- with his dad, with the rest of his family, with the girls he's seeing -- but he's not sure he can stop it. Or if he even wants to."--GoodReads.com Teen Fiction Book |
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Carter, Nikki. Step to this : a so for Real Novel Gia decides it's time for a makeover. With her stylish new look, she scores a date with hottie football player, snags a spot on the Hi-Steppers dance squad, and makes a ton of new friends. Gia's on top of the world until things go horribly wrong. Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Castan, Mike The Price of Loyalty Mexican American middle-schooler Manny finds himself caught between going along with his friends who are set on forming a gang and cutting his ties to them and following his own inclination to stay out of trouble. Teen Fiction Book |
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Daniels, Babygirl 16 On the Block After Summer's mom was killed in a robbery, the only person she has left is her older sister Trish. They spent their childhood in a group home, but on Summer's 16th birthday, Trish is finally allowed to become Summer's legal guardian. When things start getting dangerous, Summer has some tough decisions to make. Teen Fiction Book |
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Devine, Eric. Tap Out Seventeen-year-old Tony is faced with domestic problems at home, and peer pressure on the streets. He's hoping a mixed martial arts class will help him balance things out and give him the courage to live his own life. Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Elkeles, Simone. Rules of Attraction Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring. Teen Fiction Book |
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Goss, Shelia M. Secrets Untold When Porsha discovers that her biological father is really Dion McNeil, a well-known athlete, she does not know how to cope with the news, especially in the face of a new half-sister and a media scandal over Dion's infidelity. Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Grimes, Nikki Dark Sons Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers. Teen Fiction Book |
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Hunter, Travis On the Come Up By the time DeMarco was fifteen, being locked up was better than being at home. So whenever he got hungry or cold, he'd steal something and make sure he got caught. Jasmine, his twin sister, hasn't had the luxury of vacationing in juvie. She's had to balance being an honor roll student with fighting off advances from her mother's boyfriend. Teen Fiction Book |
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Hunter, Travis Two the Hard Way With an authentic voice that reflects the reality of urban life, Hunter provides a compelling, vividly realistic look into life in the housing projects as seen through the eyes of two brothers trying to get by. Teen Fiction Book |
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Johnson, Angela The First Part Last Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Johnson, R. M. Stacie and Cole Stacie and Cole have been in love since the beginning of high school. Their heads should be all up in the clouds, but lately its been about sins and secrets that threaten to tear their love apart. With lust and lies at every turn, theyre about to discover if their love really has no limit. Teen Fiction Book |
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Lee, Darrien. Raising Kane Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander resents having to care for her two younger siblings while her father works, and when he insists Kane put her family before her social life, Kane decides to run away. Teen Fiction Book |
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Maia, Love DJ Rising Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan's career as "DJ Ice" is skyrocketing, but his mother's heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth. Teen Fiction Book |
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Moore, Wes The other Wes Moore : One Name Two Fates Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Adult Nonfiction Book Other formats available |
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Myers, Walter Dean Kick Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges. Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Neri, Greg. Yummy : the Last Days of a Southside Shorty "A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members."--Provided by publisher. Teen Graphic Novel |
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Pena, Matt de la. We Were Here Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life. Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Perez, Ashley Hope The Knife and the Butterfly After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael, a member of Houston's MS-13 gang and the son of illegal Salvadoran immigrants, wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror. Teen Fiction Book |
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