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• Down Came the Rain

  Mathieu, Jennifer,

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  Becoming an environmental activist after her home is destroyed by a hurricane, even if it means going up against her big-oil dad, Eliza meets Javi and is finally able to connect with someone over the devastating mental effects of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrecker

  Hiaasen, Carl,

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  When some men in a sailboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat pay him to forget he ever saw them, Wrecker is happy to oblige, but when he keeps seeing these men all over Key West, he discovers they want more than just his silence.

• Savi and the Memory Keeper

  Vachharajani, Bijal,

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  The weather is always ideal in the city of Shajarpur, 1,500 miles away from Delhi’s smog-steeped streets. Following her father’s abrupt death, moving to Shajarpur from Delhi is the fresh start that 13-year-old Savitri Kumar, her mother,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet and the Loud

  Fox, Helena,

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  George’s life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George’s past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Hunger of Thorns

  Wilkinson, Lili, 1981-

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  Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic--and her best friend. These days,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl Out of Time

  Boyer, Clyde,

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  Science-minded eighth grader Anna Armstrong has always longed to explore space. She believes her dreams are forfeit when her parents’ deaths force her to leave Boston to live with her uncle Jack on his farm in Smartt, Ind. But it turns out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jamilah at the End of the World

  Zeitoun, Mary-Lou,

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  Set against the backdrop of a brutal Toronto summer heatwave, seventeen-year-old Jamilah Monsour makes plans for what she's certain is the beginning of the climate change catastrophe that will end the world. Luckily, Jamilah knows what has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Badger, Darcie Little

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  Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poison Ivy Thorns

  Keplinger, Kody,

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  There's something unusual about Pamela Isley—the girl who hides behind her bright red hair. The girl who won't let anyone inside to see what's lurking behind the curtains. The girl who goes to extreme lengths to care for a few plants.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl From the Sea

  Ostertag, Molly,

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  Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Confusion of Laurel Graham

  Kisner, Adrienne,

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  Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beast Player

  Uehashi, Nahoko,

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  Elin's family has an important responsibility: caring for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. So when some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wild Lands

  Greci, Paul,

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  Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and his younger sister, Jess, must cross hundreds of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dry

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival, The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legacy

  Blank, Jessica, 1975-

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  Ever since her older brother Andy died, Alison's life has been just as dark as her home in Tacoma, Washington. Her mom is in perpetual mourning, her father ran out on them, and after hanging out with Andy's hard-partying friends for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl and the Grove

  Smith, Eric

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  Teenager Leila’s life is full of challenges. From bouncing around the foster care system to living with seasonal affective disorder, she’s never had an easy road. Leila keeps herself busy with her passion for environmental advocacy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dig Too Deep

  Allgeyer, Amy

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  When a nearby mountaintop removal mine is suspected of contaminating the water and sickening the residents of a small Kentucky town, sixteen-year-old Liberty Briscoe searches for answers.

• Skink No Surrender

  Hiaasen, Carl

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  When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There’s only one man for the job: a half-crazed, half-feral, one-eyed ex-governor named Skink. Skink joins 14-year-old Richard on a breakneck chase across…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Iguana

  Townsend, Wendy,

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  By her junior year of high school, Clarice knows that her sensitivity to animals makes her different from other kids-and not necessarily in a good way. She hasn't gotten her driver's license because she worries about hitting frogs and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Chemical Mountain

  Vacco, Corina

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  The summer before they begin high school, best friends Jason, Charlie, and Cornpop go after the chemical plant that has been polluting their town, one seeking revenge for his father's death and the others mainly for the thrill of it.