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1) Eb & flow
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4th Grade Recommended Reads
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Middle Grade Novels in Verse (SCPL-YS)
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
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"In this dual-POV novel in verse, Black seventh graders Ebony "Eb" Wilson and De'Kari "Flow" Flood contemplate the conflict that sees them both suspended from school. A ten-day suspension has tweens De'Kari and Ebony seeing the world with a fresh perspective. Don't miss this poignant novel in verse from the award-winning author of Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Two kids. One fight. No one thinks they're wrong."--
Ebony and De'Kari (aka Flow) do not get...
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Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father -- and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and...
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If Sons, Then Heirs sheds light on a uniquely American, largely untold story of African American land ownership, the outmigration from the South, racial violence, and the consequences of past decisions on present realities.
After World War II, Needham family members migrated north to Philadelphia from South Carolina, leaving behind the tragic injustice surrounding the violent death of their patriarch, King. His devoted widow, Selma, remains on the...
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"Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and...
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"In this haunting parable of the American west, a young woman faces the violent past of a remote Montana valley. In Montana's Bitterroot Valley, a young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Raised in a trailer by her stubborn, bowhunting father, Ruthie develops a powerful connection with the natural world but struggles to find her place in a society shaped by men. As she comes of age , her small community...
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BOOK FIVE IN THE AWARD-WINING SERIES STARRING UNFORGETTABLE AMATEUR SLEUTH ODELIA GREY
What do you have to lose when you go searching for the mother who walked out of your life thirty-four years ago? I mean besides your pride, your nerves, and your sanity?
Odelia finds herself up to her ears in trouble when she reunites with her mom in a corn maze at the Autumn Fair in Holmsbury, Massachusetts. For
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An unexpected inheritance offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering husband Steven won't let her go so easily. Just as she's beginning to settle into her new life, Libby's troubled past catches up with her. The one person she can turn to for help is her new neighbour, former police detective Joss Atherton, to whom Libby feels a growing attraction....
8) Hope Springs
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Eleven-year-old crafter Jubilee Johnson's assumptions about her vagabond life, her estranged mother, and her idol, television's perfect crafter Arletta Paisley, start to change after Jubi and her grandmother move to a small Texas town.
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"Secrets abound in Lorna's family. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years. Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of her own, she's determined to make Marika a part of their...
11) Paddle battle
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What if your biggest opponent is yourself? Finn Hunter has high hopes of making the national kayaking team one day. And he might just make it too, since he made the regional team last year. But this year, since his mom left home, things have been different. Finn is angry, and his paddling and relationship with his teammates are suffering as a result. Can Finn pull it together to achieve his dreams?
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After her father passes away, Sophie Shah discovers a cache of hidden letters revealing her mother didn't die, she left, and determined to find the woman who abandoned her, journeys to Paris where she, chasing lead after lead, discovers parts of herself she never knew.
13) Original Sin
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Seven deadly sins (Allison Brennan) volume 1
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Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O’Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira’s global search has led her to a small California town that’s about to become hell on earth.
Tormented by his own terrifying past and driven by powers he can’t explain, ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper...
Tormented by his own terrifying past and driven by powers he can’t explain, ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper...
14) Ramifications
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"On a Tuesday in July 1994, Teresa leaves her home in a residential neighborhood of Mexico City and travels to Chiapas, drawn by news of the formation of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. She leaves behind a sixteen-year-old daughter, a solitary, introspective son of ten, and a husband she has long regretted marrying. Twenty-three years later, her son, the narrator of this novel, lies prostrate in a bed, meticulously going back over the events...
16) The dynamiter
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Film Movement volume 10, film 10
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All 14 year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet, as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown, and he's left to burn the days away caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return, and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again and with social services looming over them, Robbie may even lose Fess, Robbie must face the fact that his...
17) Standing tall
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A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.
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Sisters Tiana and Nia, abandoned by their drug-addicted mother, become two of the many children placed in the Florida foster care system. The system splits up the two sisters, and once they are reunited they vow to each other never to be separated again - until an unfortunate tragedy happens.
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