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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2017
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2017
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2017
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2017
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2017
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YA CD FICTION THOMAS 2017
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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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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2021
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2021
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2021
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2021
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South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2021
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2021
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"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2019
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOMAS 2019
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2019
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2019
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YA FICTION THOMAS 2019
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This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bris got massive shoes to fill. But its hard to get your come up when youre labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge...
4) Dear Martin
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION STONE 2017
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YA FICTION STONE 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION STONE 2017
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YA FICTION STONE 2017
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"Raw and gripping." Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys A must-read!” Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut. Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy Leaguebut none of that matters to the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2015
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 811.54 WOODSO 2014
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J 811.54 WOODSO 2014
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Incline Village Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 811.54 WOODSO 2014
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J 811.54 WOODSO 2014
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North Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 811.54 WOODSON 2014
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J 811.54 WOODSON 2014
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD 811.54 WOODSO 2015 UNABRIDGED
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J CD 811.54 WOODSO 2015 UNABRIDGED
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In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MAGOON 2014
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YA FICTION MAGOON 2014
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MAGOON 2014
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YA FICTION MAGOON 2014
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
8) Kindred
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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YA BIO LEWIS 2013
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John Lewis's autobiographical account of his lifelong battle for civil rights for all Americans.
10) Monster
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MYERS 1999
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YA FICTION MYERS 1999
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MYERS 1999
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YA FICTION MYERS 1999
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MYERS 1999
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YA FICTION MYERS 1999
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION WATSON 2017
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YA FICTION WATSON 2017
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Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
2018 Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner "Timely and timeless." --Jacqueline Woodson "Important and deeply moving." --John Green. Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful...
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION DRAPER 2015
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J FICTION DRAPER 2015
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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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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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Long-listed for the National Book Award!The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home. Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican...
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North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION AHMED 2018
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YA FICTION AHMED 2018
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Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HOPKIN 2018
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YA FICTION HOPKIN 2018
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People kill people. Guns just make it easier. A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his...
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KEPLIN 2018
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YA FICTION KEPLIN 2018
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It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith.But it's not true.I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the...
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A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri,...
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri,...
19) A girl like that
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION BHATHE 2018
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YA FICTION BHATHE 2018
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In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
920.073 AMERIC 2018
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920.073 AMERIC 2018
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"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales...