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As punishment for breaking into the high school to watch a solar eclipse, friends Ezra, Imogen, Holden, and Wynonna must act in the school play, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  Before the first rehearsal starts, socially inept Ezra and badass Wynonna wake up in each other's bodies.

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Eager to connect with her celebrity survivalist father (Cougar), 17-year-old Danger Danielle Warren ("Danny") ignores her reservations about dangerous conditions and wildlife and joins him on a trip to Peru to record an episode of his television show.  The episode's featured guest is teen heartthrob Gus Price, who travels along with Danny, Cougar, 3 crew members, and a seasoned pilot, but the trip quickly goes wrong when a storm causes the group to veer off course and crash-land in the jungle.

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With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo | Official Book Trailer

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Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power.

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An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.

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After moving back to Anchorage and discovering the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, high school senior Ruthie embarks on a search that reveals dark secrets.

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Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country trai tip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.

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Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.

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Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.

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In a futuristic United States, Muslim-Americans are sent to interment camps.  Seventeen-year-old Layla Amin leads a revolution against complicit silence.

Teenage burn survivor Wilder Tate faces the challenges of high school but in the aftermath of tragedy he discovers the capacity to forgive and emphathize--learning the importance of healing from the inside out.

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Author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.

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Determined to see her softball team through a historic tournament run despite sever injuries, Mickey Catalan is prescribed painkillers that initially help, before high pressure leads to an out-of-control addiction.

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When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas high school, he views his fellow students as cliches from a "a bad 90s teen movie."

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I Know You Remember by Jennifer Donaldson FAST, NO SPOILERS BOOK TALK!

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Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes FAST, NO SPOILERS BOOK TALK!

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Internment by Samira Ahmed

When a little girl is lost in a national park, a family of search-and-rescue professionals reunites and three generations of secrets are uncovered.

When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguiero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

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