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1) Adrift
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"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
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Somerville East - Young Adult
YA FIC Arango, Andrea Beatriz
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YA FIC Arango, Andrea Beatriz
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Somerville West - Children's
J FIC ARANGO
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J FIC ARANGO
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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eAudiobook
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From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
As World War I stretches its cruel fingers across Europe, five young people, each from different backgrounds and nations, face the terror of...
4) Lolo's light
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"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies -- unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably -- on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...
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1 copy on order.
Somerville - Adult
ELL READING ADVANCED
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ELL READING ADVANCED
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Somerville - Young Adult
YA FIC Reynolds, Jason
1 available
YA FIC Reynolds, Jason
1 available
Somerville East - Young Adult
YA COMICS REYNOLDS
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YA COMICS REYNOLDS
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
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In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
7) Mascot
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Somerville - Children's
J FIC WATERS
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J FIC WATERS
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Somerville East - Children's
J FIC WATERS
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J FIC WATERS
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Somerville West - Children's
J FIC WATERS
1 available
J FIC WATERS
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"In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside down with everyone choosing sides and arguments getting...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie, who didn't think being himself would cause such a splash"--
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Scarlett and Browne volume 1
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"Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits - and never looking back. She's on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgment, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett's used to being chased...
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53 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Somerville - Young Adult
YA FIC Hanna Alkaf
1 available
YA FIC Hanna Alkaf
1 available
Somerville West - Young Adult
YA FIC Hanna Alkaf
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YA FIC Hanna Alkaf
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Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
11) Renegades
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Renegades volume 1
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57 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Somerville East - Young Adult
YA FIC Meyer, Marissa
1 available
YA FIC Meyer, Marissa
1 available
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Secret identities. Extraordinary powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice. The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies-humans with extraordinary abilities-who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone ... except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for...
12) Seraphina
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Seraphina volume 1
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In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
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Somerville - Young Adult
YA FIC Little Badger, Darcie
1 available
YA FIC Little Badger, Darcie
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Somerville East - Young Adult
YA FIC Little Badger, Darcie
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YA FIC Little Badger, Darcie
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Somerville East - Young Adult
YA MEDIA BOOK FIC LITTLE BADGER
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YA MEDIA BOOK FIC LITTLE BADGER
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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 home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
14) Summerland
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Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a one hundred-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
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Somerville - Adult
GRAPHIC 940.5317 TA
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GRAPHIC 940.5317 TA
1 available
Somerville East - Adult
GRAPHIC 940.5317 TA
1 available
GRAPHIC 940.5317 TA
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
GRAPHIC 940.5317 TA
1 available
GRAPHIC 940.5317 TA
1 available
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"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love." --