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"Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, Ziwe combines pop-culture commentary and personal stories, which grapple with her own (mis)understanding of identity. From a hilarious case of mistaken identity via a jumbotron to a terrifying fight-or-flight encounter in...
2) Insurgent
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Divergent trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously, so Morrowseer's devastating news changes everything--now she must forge a new identity, and find a way to stop the futile and destructive war between the dragon clans.
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets. With his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's...
6) Divergent
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Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Beatrice Pryor lives in a dystopian Chicago, which is divided into five factions devoted to different virtues. On a set day every year, sixteen-year-olds must select which faction they will devote the rest of their lives to. Beatrice must choose between staying with her family and being who she really is. Beatrice also has a secret, one she has been warned can mean death if exposed. Now, Beatrice will be forced to make tough choices that can determine...
7) Seraphina
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Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
11) Another day
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Every day volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Rhiannon is disappointed that her neglectful boyfriend Justin doesn't remember the one perfect day they shared, until a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person... wasn't Justin at all.".
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Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
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English
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When Danielle Harding's abusive husband dies, she begins to feel that she and her son are safe, until a man who had dealings with her dead husband begins to pursue her, and she must seek help from Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge.
14) Girl mans up
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed...
16) Passing
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"Light-skinned Clare Kendry married a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage after deciding to 'pass' as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, chose to remain within the African American community, and is both allured and repelled by Clare's racial masquerade. Clare's own interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for the identity she abandoned and can never regain, and forces her...
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Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
18) Endlessly
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Paranormalcy trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Evie is forced to face the truth about her supernatural past when a deadly faerie battle threatens the future of the entire paranormal world"--
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Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 1
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English
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Waking up one morning to discover her husband missing and three men in her home intent on finding him, Summer Abernathy learns that her husband was not the man he claimed to be before she is led into a world of organized crime in search of answers.
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1959
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
"Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain...
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