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1) Alebrijes
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
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When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
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Atherton volume 1
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Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
3) Diva
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Flappers volume 3
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When Marcus leaves Clara Knowles for another girl, Clara sinks into unhappiness and Lorraine Dyer tries to save Marcus from a loveless marriage, while their fellow flapper, Gloria Carmody, is hiding a deadly secret while living among socialites at Forrest Hamilton's Long Island villa.
5) The luxe
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"Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone-from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker to the spiteful maid Lina Broud-threatens Elizabeth's and Diana's golden future. With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between...
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Hagenheim volume 8
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Orphaned, Aladdin travels from the streets of his Arab homeland to Hagenheim, Germany. He meets Lady Kirstyn, whose father is the powerful Duke of Hagenheim. Despite the difference in their stations, Aladdin quickly becomes Kirstyn's favorite companion. Through his integrity, intelligence, and sheer tenacity, Aladdin earns a position serving as the duke's steward, but eventually decides to leave Hagenheim and seek his fortune. When Lady Kirstyn becomes...
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Rumors fly about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, New York's brightest star. All eyes are now on her sister Diana, New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the seductive Penelope Hayes and Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud. This novel is set in Manhattan, 1899.
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In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.
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Before his grandmother moved from India to the island of Mariposa, Muki Krishnan's life was good. But now? He has to share his bedroom with Paati, his grandmother, who snores like a bulldozer and wakes him up at dawn to do yoga. Paati's arrival coincides with even bigger changes in Mariposa. The president divides citizens into Butterflies, families who have lived in Mariposa for three generations, and Moths, who, like Muki's family, are more recent...
17) Everless
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Everless volume 1
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In the kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocrats like the Gerling family tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember; she and her father were once servants at their estate, Everless, until an accident drove them away. After discovering her father is dying, Jules is desperate to earn more...
18) The kaya girl
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"Fourteen-year-olds Abena and Faiza, girls from vastly different worlds, cross paths in chaotic Makola Market in Accra, Ghana, and forge a beautiful bond that changes the path of each of their lives"--
19) Vixen
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Flappers volume 1
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English
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In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.
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Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
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