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"In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager...
2) New kid
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After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds.
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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Solvang Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN Fiction ROSEN,L
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"An unapologetically sexually active queer character works to uncover a blackmailer threatening him back into the closet"--
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When her friend Monday Charles goes missing and Monday's mother refuses to give her a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance.
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN REYNOLDS,J
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TEEN REYNOLDS,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN REYNOLDS,J
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FICTION EVISON,J
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FICTION EVISON,J
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FICTION EVISON,J
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FICTION EVISON,J
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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Non-Fiction
TEEN 306.768 K962
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Non-Fiction
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A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting...
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Solvang Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
597.6798
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Solvang Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
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Presents the life cycle of the endangered sea horse, discussing its mating behavior, the defense mechanisms it uses against predators, and the type of environment it lives in.
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADICH,C
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FICTION ADICH,C
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FICTION
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FICTION
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
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FICTION ADICH,C
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Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.
"With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends...
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Buellton Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN ASHER,J
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TEEN ASHER,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN ASHER,J
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Buellton Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN ASHER,J
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TEEN ASHER,J
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TEEN ASHER,J
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TEEN ASHER,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Audio Visual - Book on CD
TEEN FICTION ASHER,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Audio Visual - Book on CD
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When high school student Clay Jensen receives a box in the mail containing several cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
15) Dragonwings
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
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Moom Shadow was eight years old whe he sailed from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. For years, Windrider had lived in San Francisco and made his living doing laundry. Father and son had never met. But over time, Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with Moos SHadoe's help, is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, the separation from his...
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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." -The New York Times Book Review
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES,ER
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FICTION GAINES,ER
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Gaines,Er
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES,ER
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FICTION GAINES,ER
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. When Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Louisiana, he visits and forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. Best Books for Young Teen Readers.
18) The bluest eye
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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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Good Trouble is the helpful antidote to all the pessimism and name-calling that is permeating today's political and social dialogues. Revisiting episodes from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, it highlights the essential lessons that modern-day activists and the civically minded can extract and embrace in order to move forward and create change. In words and vivid pen-and-watercolor illustrations, journalist Christopher Noxon dives...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
Lee,Harpe
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Santa Ynez Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Lee,Harpe
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FICTION Lee,Harpe
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
Lee,Harpe
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Lee,Harpe
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FICTION Lee,Harpe
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FICTION Lee,Harpe
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50th anniversary edition ; first Perennial classics edition.
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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1st HarperLargePrint Classics ed.
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A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.