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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.76 KOBABE 2019
2 available
306.76 KOBABE 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.76 KOBABE 2019
1 available
306.76 KOBABE 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.7609 KOBABE 2022
1 available
306.7609 KOBABE 2022
1 available
Description
"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. Then e created Gender Queer. 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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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
YA BIO JOHNSON 2020
1 available
YA BIO JOHNSON 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
YA BIO JOHNSON 2020
1 available
YA BIO JOHNSON 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Young Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
YA BIO JOHNSON 2020
1 available
YA BIO JOHNSON 2020
1 available
Description
A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy.
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...
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 306.766 DAWSON 2021
2 available
YA 306.766 DAWSON 2021
2 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 306.766 DAWSON 2021
1 available
YA 306.766 DAWSON 2021
1 available
Description
A British author of teen fiction offers basic information about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience, including terms, religious issues, coming out, and sex acts, for people of all orientations, including the merely curious.
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Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.
A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOR 1970
1 available
FICTION MOR 1970
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 1970
1 available
FICTION MORRIS 1970
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 1970
1 available
FICTION MORRIS 1970
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MOR 1994 ABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION MOR 1994 ABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, 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.
6) Flamer
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Series
Flamer volume 1
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Sparks Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 741.5 CURATO 2020 v.1
2 available
YA 741.5 CURATO 2020 v.1
2 available
Description
It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes―but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance. Provided by publisher.
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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.
The New York Times bestselling novel that inspired the hit film! This is the funniest book you’ll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the...
8) Tricks
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2017
1 available
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2017
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2009
1 available
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2009
1 available
North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2009
1 available
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2009
1 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2009
1 available
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2009
1 available
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
9) Sold
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MCC 2006
1 available
YA FICTION MCC 2006
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MCC 2006
1 available
YA FICTION MCC 2006
1 available
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 306.7 MOEN 2021
1 available
YA 306.7 MOEN 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 306.7 MOEN 2021
1 available
YA 306.7 MOEN 2021
1 available
Description
"A graphic novel about sex, sexuality, gender, body, consent, and many other topics for teens"-- Provided by publisher.
11) 10,000 dresses
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South Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E EWE
1 available
J E EWE
1 available
Description
Bailey longs to wear the beautiful dresses of her dreams but is ridiculed by her unsympathetic family which rejects her true perception of herself.
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ALEXIE 2007
1 available
YA FICTION ALEXIE 2007
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ALEXIE 2007
1 available
YA FICTION ALEXIE 2007
1 available
Duncan/Traner Community Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ALEXIE 2007
1 available
YA FICTION ALEXIE 2007
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION ALEXIE 2019
1 available
YA CD FICTION ALEXIE 2019
1 available
Description
Sherman Alexie, in his first book for young adults, tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, beautifully written, semi-autobiographical, and coupled with poignant drawings that reflect...
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Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO PELZER 1995
1 available
BIO PELZER 1995
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO PELZER 1995
1 available
BIO PELZER 1995
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO PELZER 1995
1 available
BIO PELZER 1995
1 available
Description
Dave Pelzer was beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting look at the horrors of child abuse and the determination of one child to survive against the odds.
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable,...
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION TWA 199 UNABRIDGED
1 available
J CD FICTION TWA 199 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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Sparks Library - Children's Board Books
J E NAGARA 2013
1 available
J E NAGARA 2013
1 available
Description
Introduces the letters of the alphabet with terms related to social justice, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and other causes activists support.
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
2 available
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
2 available
Duncan/Traner Community Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
1 available
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
1 available
North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
1 available
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
1 available
Description
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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Sierra View Library - Children's Picture Books
J E RIC
1 available
J E RIC
1 available
South Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E RIC
1 available
J E RIC
1 available
Description
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Holocaust Shelf
BIO FRANK 2022
5 available
BIO FRANK 2022
5 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FRANK 1995
1 available
BIO FRANK 1995
1 available
Description
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION PAN 2018
1 available
YA FICTION PAN 2018
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION PAN 2018
1 available
YA FICTION PAN 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION PAN 2018
1 available
YA FICTION PAN 2018
1 available
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
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Sierra View Library - Children's Picture Books
J E OELSCH 2010
1 available
J E OELSCH 2010
1 available
Description
A young girl describes how her two daddies help her through her day, including her poppa cooking eggs and toast, her daddy fixing her knee when she is hurt, and both fathers being there for her when she needs love.