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  • Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Wong, Alice
    Alice Wong

    Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

    Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of...
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  • Alastor by Soni, Maya
    Maya Soni

    Alastor

    Alastor. That is what I named my anxiety, my mental illness. To help cope with the many thoughts Alastor filled my brain with, I started to write. The pages you will read are very personal words of mine directed to those who also struggle,...
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  • Cubbyhole Kid by Joseph, C. E.
    C. E. Joseph

    Cubbyhole Kid

    Cubbyhole Kid tells a harrowing survival story of a young four-year-old boy as he recounts his days being raised in a strict Irish Catholic family while expressing his gratitude and love for two incredible women that saved his life-his protective fourteen-year-old sister, his godmother,...
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  • Semi-Famous: A True Story of Near Celebrity by Sundquist, Josh
    Josh Sundquist

    Semi-Famous: A True Story of Near Celebrity

    In this "laugh-out-loud funny" book (Hank Green, New York Times bestselling author), social media star and comedian Josh Sundquist takes readers on his hilarious journey to the fringes of viral stardom to discover if it's possible to be both very famous and very happy...
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  • Moments of Impact by Monitello, Jillian
    Jillian Monitello

    Moments of Impact

    Jillian Monitello is just a young girl trying to enjoy each and every day while striving to fulfill her goals. As she lives her life, she learns the truth about battling Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a progressive terminal illness. While navigating the ups and downs...
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  • The Flight of a Sparrow by Augustine, Karen
    Karen Augustine

    The Flight of a Sparrow

    The Flight of a Sparrow is a true story about a young aboriginal woman whose life was chaos and darkness. The book tells of her struggles, challenges, and the abuse that was put upon her and how she coped in order to survive. It...
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  • We Can't Be Friends: A True Story by Etler, Cyndy
    Cyndy Etler

    We Can't Be Friends: A True Story

    The companion to The Dead Inside, [An] unnerving and heartrending memoir (Publishers Weekly).This is the story of my return to high school. This is the true story of how I didn't die.High school sucks for a lot of people. High school extra sucks when...
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  • Surviving the Military: A Memoir by Davis, Norma D.
    Norma D. Davis

    Surviving the Military: A Memoir

    Norma D. Davis has struggled with finally telling the truth about how betrayal almost caused her to give up on sisterhood and brotherhood all together when a female soldier helped a male soldier rape her because her sexual moral compass remained the same despite...
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  • Twenty-Two Texas Women: Independent . . . Strong . . . Tough by Bennett, Michele
    Michele Bennett

    Twenty-Two Texas Women: Independent . . . Strong . . . Tough

    They are women who ventured into business, aviation, and medicine when it wasn't a "woman's place." These women over-came life's hardships and opened doors of opportunity to claim their part of Texas. Their spirit continues to shine in the accomplishments of outstanding Texas women.Author:...
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  • The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by Coates, Ta-Nehisi
    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)

    Adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me, this father-son story explores how boys become men, and quite specifically, how Ta-Nehisi Coates became Ta-Nehisi Coates. As a child, Ta-Nehisi...
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  • The Book of Demra: A Life Saved-A Life Transformed by Henderson, Joel
    Joel Henderson

    The Book of Demra: A Life Saved-A Life Transformed

    The description of a unique series of true-life experiences of a man in the throngs of a life between desperation and exuberance points to the work of fate in providing his transformation. Living his selfish, hedonistic life, the birth of his daughter provides the...
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  • You Too?: 25 Voices Share Their #Metoo Stories by Gurtler, Janet
    Janet Gurtler

    You Too?: 25 Voices Share Their #Metoo Stories

    A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield and many more. When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was among the millions...
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  • Life According to Monty Dogge by Sanders, Mt
    Mt Sanders

    Life According to Monty Dogge

    When Monty the Newfoundland puppy arrived at his new home, it's fair to say he immediately created a big impression. At seven weeks old, he was almost the same size as the rest of his canine family, the three Cocker Spaniels Molly, Poppy and...
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  • Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins by Miller, Sarah
    Sarah Miller

    Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins

    From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s....
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  • Laughing at My Nightmare by Burcaw, Shane
    Shane Burcaw

    Laughing at My Nightmare

    With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a...
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  • Angel in the Rose Garden by Pérez Cirigo, Ivania
    Ivania P駻ez Cirigo

    Angel in the Rose Garden

    Virginia, a young girl living in a remote rural town in Nicaragua, experiences friendship and loss for the first time. She makes a friend in Angelina, a mysterious girl she meets at school, whom she grows to love rather quickly. But life in El...
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  • Xwist Memin Kin I Want to go Home: Memories of Kamloops Residential School and Joeyaska Ranch by Joe, Mary Jane
    Mary Jane Joe

    Xwist Memin Kin "I Want to go Home": Memories of Kamloops Residential School and Joeyaska Ranch

    Personal memories of people, routines, rules and education at an Indian residential school are outlined. It is a very different picture when compared with home life and family visits. The Government of Canada intended to separate children from parents, traditions, language and spiritual beliefs,...
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  • Life's a Journey: Hardships to Blessings by Skinner, Colten J.
    Colten J. Skinner

    Life's a Journey: Hardships to Blessings

    When throughout life you are facing one hardship after another, it would be easy to just give up. Follow one boy's life's journey as his hardships transform into countless blessings. His story of living life to its fullest will inspire you to live each...
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  • The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science by Volponi, Paul
    Paul Volponi

    The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science

    Who is the Greatest Of All Time--the G.O.A.T.? This is the question debated constantly between fans for any number of categories. Who is the greatest basketball player of all time? The greatest band? Video game? Sci-fi movie? In The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best...
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  • We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Sundquist, Josh
    Josh Sundquist

    We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

    From Paralympic ski racer and YouTube star Josh Sundquist, comes an always-funny (and sometimes-awkward) memoir about teenage misadventures. When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend. At the time, I was actually under the...
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  • The Flower Without a Name by Greysen, P. S.
    P. S. Greysen

    The Flower Without a Name

    Pauline Flower sees Disneyland for the first time on TV during Christmas time at home in Reading, England, in 1975. She, like everyone else at 5 years of age, dreams to one day be able to go there. Pauline holds onto this dream through...
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  • Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness by Juarez, Roy, Jr.
    Roy Jr. Juarez

    Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness

    At the age of 14 years old, Roy found himself homeless due to domestic violence. He moved from house to house to survive. With only a duffle bag to call home, he was at the mercy of the streets. After navigating his way to...
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  • On Two Feet and Wings by Kazerooni, Abbas
    Abbas Kazerooni

    On Two Feet and Wings

    He is in a foreign country, he is alone, and he is just a boy...Abbas Kazerooni is not yet ten, but he's suddenly forced to leave his parents, his friends--his entire world--and flee Tehran. The Iran-Iraq war is at its bloodiest, and the Ayatollahs...
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  • The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story (Middle-Grade Cover) by Carter, Alton
    Alton Carter

    The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story (Middle-Grade Cover)

    Abandoned by his father, neglected by his mother, shuttled between foster homes and a boys ranch for most of his formative years, a young man refuses to succumb to the fate that the world says should be his. Early on, Alton decides he wants...
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  • We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction by Sheff, Nic
    Nic Sheff

    We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

    In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab. In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through...
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  • The Champions' Game: A True Story by Ramirez, Saul
    Saul Ramirez

    The Champions' Game: A True Story

    In April of 2015, a team of 12 middle schoolers--border kids--from South-Central El Paso surprised the country by taking first place in the national chess championships.The 11, 12 and 13-year-old chess players at El Paso ISD's Henderson Middle School largely credit their success to...
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  • Passion and Purpose: Black Female Surgeons by Matemavi, Praise
    Praise Matemavi

    Passion and Purpose: Black Female Surgeons

    Passion and Purpose is a complete collection of all 75 beautiful stories created to inspire women everywhere to believe in the power of their dreams. These phenomenal women have experienced heartache and challenges along their paths that only served to make them more determined...
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  • The Accident by Petrillo, Gayle Fein
    Gayle Fein Petrillo

    The Accident

    The Accident captures the sweet, playful and giggly personality of Gayle as a near 3 year old. She's off with her mom to a grown-up tea party. Her life is suddenly changed by the physical and emotional scars left after a terrible accident. Gayle...
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  • Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles by Burkhart, Jessica
    Jessica Burkhart

    Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles

    "Who better to raise teens' awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?" --Booklist (starred review) " A] much-needed, enlightening book." --School Library Journal (starred review) Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own...
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  • The Book of Demra: A Life Saved-A Life Transformed by Henderson, Joel
    Joel Henderson

    The Book of Demra: A Life Saved-A Life Transformed

    The description of a unique series of true-life experiences of a man in the throngs of a life between desperation and exuberance points to the work of fate in providing his transformation. Living his selfish, hedonistic life, the birth of his daughter provides the...
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  • Brother: A Story of Autism by Hudgens, Carlton
    Carlton Hudgens

    Brother: A Story of Autism

    Bridget and Carlton are as close as any sister and brother. But their relationship is particularly special. Carlton has autism and is almost completely nonverbal. He's smart, funny, creative, and loving. He has immense challenges in speaking full sentences. Bridget's fierce loyalty to and...
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  • Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness by Juarez Jr, Roy
    Roy Jr. Juarez

    Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness

    At the age of 14 years old, Roy found himself homeless due to domestic violence. He moved from house to house to survive. With only a duffle bag to call home, he was at the mercy of the streets. After navigating his way to...
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  • Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey by Newman, Magdalena
    Magdalena Newman

    Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey

    Praised by R.J. Palacio as "wondrous"--this moving memoir follows a teenage boy with TC syndrome and his exceptional family from diagnosis at birth to now. "This touching memoir is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the real-world experiences of a...
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  • Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles by Burkhart, Jessica
    Jessica Burkhart

    Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles

    Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD. Have you ever felt like you just couldn't get out...
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  • Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Wong, Alice
    Alice Wong

    Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

    Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of...
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  • A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Marrin, Albert
    Albert Marrin

    A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust

    From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust. Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The...
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  • In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees by Kuklin, Susan
    Susan Kuklin

    In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees

    Five refugees recount their courageous journeys to America -- and the unimaginable struggles that led them to flee their homelands -- in a powerful work from the author of Beyond Magenta and We Are Here to Stay. "From 1984, when I was born, until...
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  • The Covid-19 Pandemic: Moved Education from Classrooms to Homes by Kebbay, Jamilah
    Jamilah Kebbay

    The Covid-19 Pandemic: Moved Education from Classrooms to Homes

    Birds chirped in the air, flowers bloomed, and campuses were full of life, with students walking to and from class, chatter and laughter in the air. A few months later, the world stopped. It was the middle of March 2020. Everything changed, and students...
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  • Dreams and Nightmares: I Fled Alone to the United States When I Was Fourteen (In English and Spanish) by Velasquez, Liliana
    Liliana Velasquez

    Dreams and Nightmares: I Fled Alone to the United States When I Was Fourteen (In English and Spanish)

    Dreams and Nightmares appears in full color in both English and Spanish.DescriptionAt fourteen, Liliana Vel squez walked out of her village in Guatemala and headed for the U.S. border, alone. On her two-thousand-mile voyage she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La...
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  • Build a Better You - For Teens: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself in Seven Easy Steps by Ali Alali, Mahra
    Mahra Ali Alali

    Build a Better You - For Teens: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself in Seven Easy Steps

    Do you ever feel like your life isn't quite where you want it to be? Do you feel uninspired, unsure of yourself, anxious about grades, friends and - well - everything?Build a Better You is a straight-talking approach to helping you become the best...
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  • When a Wolf Cries by Hewitt, Terry Lee, Jr.
    Terry Lee Jr. Hewitt

    When a Wolf Cries

    When Terry first experiences death at the age of ten years old due to an unfortunate and horrific car accident that left his younger brother fighting for his life, his whole world is changed. The transition from childhood to adulthood is impossible to adjust...
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  • A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Marrin, Albert
    Albert Marrin

    A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust

    From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust. Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The...
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  • Uncertainty: Learning and the Uncertainty of Freedom by Liddell, Hoover
    Hoover Liddell

    Uncertainty: Learning and the Uncertainty of Freedom

    This is an autobiographical book about my life in a Nigerian hospital and later a teacher in San Francisco, California. Soon after I arrived in Nigeria in 1967 as a teacher a civil war started. While the war was being fought I became ill...
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  • When the Wolf Camped at Our Door: My Childhood in the Great Depression by Henderson, Aileen Kilgore
    Aileen Kilgore Henderson

    When the Wolf Camped at Our Door: My Childhood in the Great Depression

    Recounts the hardships and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit southern rural community during the Great Depression As the Great Depression tightened its grip on the world, six members of the Kilgore family were living in a cramped farmhouse...
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  • Med Head: My Knock-Down, Drag-Out, Drugged-Up Battle with My Brain by Patterson, James
    James Patterson

    Med Head: My Knock-Down, Drag-Out, Drugged-Up Battle with My Brain

    Discover the story of one teenager's struggles with OCD and Tourette's Syndrome-and how he was able to overcome extraordinary setbacks.Cory Friedman knows how it feels to have a body that won't stop moving, to be really different from everyone else, to be made fun...
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  • Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army by Rauch, Georg
    Georg Rauch

    Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army

    As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked...
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  • Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins by Miller, Sarah
    Sarah Miller

    Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins

    From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s....
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  • In Retrospect at 15 by Wiczek, Zac
    Zac Wiczek

    In Retrospect at 15

    A pretty cloud of thoughts written by a white fifteen year old boy, living in America's New England during the early 21st century. A celebration of youth and optimism. A testament to the adolescent virtue of ignorance. Just an art project, expressed through humbletext.Author:...
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  • Teen Angst? Naaah...: A Quasi-Autobiography by Vizzini, Ned
    Ned Vizzini

    Teen Angst? Naaah...: A Quasi-Autobiography

    In Teen Angst Naaah . . . Ned Vizzini offers an authentic and raw portrayal of the crushing anxiety many teens experience, and which often is dismissed as simple 'angst'. In this classic testament to high school, Ned invites you into his world of...
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  • Colors Beyond Clouds: A Journey Through the Social Life of a Girl on the Autism Spectrum by Belfast, Shana
    Shana Belfast

    Colors Beyond Clouds: A Journey Through the Social Life of a Girl on the Autism Spectrum

    Colors Beyond Clouds is a brutally honest, first-hand account of the life of the thoughtful, sensitive Shana, a girl diagnosed with high functioning autism, from her preschool years through the summer after her first year of high school. This book is a narrative about...
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