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The Unidentified
In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey \"Kid\" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.
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Hell's house
Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and he escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
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Love is both wave and particle
In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admisstion are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.
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Innocent until proven guilty
Follows Forman both in his role as public defender and as educator at an alternative high school for juvenile ex-offenders, which he co-founded. Using his knowledge of the judicial system, his understanding of the streets, and his commitment to the African-American community, he is trying to help at-risk youth get back on track.
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So done
\"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Call me Sunflower
Forced to move to North Carolina, eleven-year-old Sunny schemes to get her adoptive mother back together with the man who has been like her father, until she finds a photograph that changes everything.
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Not your average Jo
\"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins a band, and they set out to make plans to perform at the annual spring concert-with a chance to land a record contract. Another student, Xander, decides his school project will be a documentary about the band leading up to their first show. But not everything goes how Riley Jo imagined. She is soon sidelined when her other bandmates feel she is \"too Asian\" to be their lead singer, and they choose her classmate Bodhi Collins for the role instead. Bodhi is rock music royalty, with a dad who is a famous music exec. And he's got the \"all-American rock star look.\" Her classmates suggest she try making K-pop, but her heart is in indie rock. Riley Jo decides to take matters into her own hands and writes an original song to showcase her talent. But Bodhi takes the credit . . . and given his connections, the band lets him. Xander captures all of this in his film, which he leaks in order to show the truth behind the band. Riley Jo decides to sign up for the spring concert and perform on her own . . . but will she finally be able to take center stage?\"-- Provided by pubisher.
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