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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Partials Partials Dan Wells "In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in… OL16361042W
Ask the passengers Ask the passengers A. S. King "Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Ma… OL16529218W
Shooting Kabul Shooting Kabul N. H. Senzai Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee … OL16628415W
Zom-B bride Zom-B bride Darren Shan B Smith considers making a sacrifice far greater and more surreal than any she has conceived before when she is reunited with the killer clown, Mr. Dowling, who desperately wants B as his partner in … OL17827702W
I walk with Vanessa I walk with Vanessa Kerascoët An elementary school girl witnesses the bullying of another girl, but she is not sure how to help. OL19666420W
How it went down How it went down Kekla Magoon When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has someth… OL19668445W
Ghost boys Ghost boys Jewell Parker Rhodes "After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"-- OL19737696W
Girl in the blue coat Girl in the blue coat Monica Hesse Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and ev… OL20024505W