YOUNG ADULT FICTION CORE COLLECTION THIRD EDITION 50 Cent (Musician), 1975- Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs Playground; with Aura Moser. Razorbill 2011 of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is 314p $17.99 further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the Grades: 7 8 9 10 hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith—without losing her identity or sense of style. “Grades 1. Bullies -- Fiction seven to ten.” (Bull Cent Child Books) ISBN 978-1-59514-434-8; 1-59514-434-X “While the novel deals with a number of serious issues, Thirteen-year-old Butterball doesn’t have much going it is extremely funny and entertaining.” SLJ for him. He’s teased about his weight. He hates the Long Island suburb his mom moved them to so she could go to nursing school and start her life over. He wishes he still The lines we cross. Randa Abdel-Fattah. Scho- lived with his dad in New York City where there’s always lastic Press 2017 393 p. something happening, even if his dad doesn’t have much Grades: 9 10 11 12 time for him. Still, that’s not why he beat up Maurice on 1. Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; 2. Ethnic the playground. relations -- Fiction; 3. Families -- Australia -- Fiction; “Readers who were ever confused about having a gay 4. Family life -- Australia -- Fiction; 5. Interpersonal parent, or being overweight, or going through a parental attraction -- Fiction; 6. Love -- Fiction; 7. Muslim breakup, or just wanting to fi t in and be accepted by their families -- Australia -- Fiction; 8. Muslims -- Australia -- peers, will relate to Butterball. 50 Cent’s debut young Fiction; 9. Refugees -- Australia -- Fiction; 10. Refugees adult novel is a quick read that will be great for discus- -- Fiction; 11. Australia -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction; sions on a variety of important and timely topics.” Voice 12. Australia -- Fiction; 13. Australia -- Politics and Youth Advocates government -- 21st century -- Juvenile literature; 14. Immigration and emigration -- Fiction Abawi, Atia 9781338118667, $18.99; 9781338118674 A land of permanent goodbyes. Atia Abawi. LC 2016040576 Philomel Books 2018 279 p. In this book, by Randa Abdel-Fattah, “Michael likes to Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12 hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by 1. IS (Organization) -- Fiction; 2. Bombings -- Fiction; their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of 3. Family life -- Syria -- Fiction; 4. Muslims -- Fiction; refugees fl ooding the country. And it all makes sense to 5. Refugees -- Fiction; 6. Syria -- Fiction Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of 9780399546839, $17.99; 9780399546846 the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be LC 2017021847 funny, smart -- and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan.” In this novel, by Atia Abawi, “in a country ripped apart (Publisher’s note) by war, Tareq lives with his...family...until the bombs strike. “An engaging romance within a compelling exploration His city is in ruins. His life is destroyed.... In the wake of of the sharply opposing beliefs that tear people apart, and destruction, he’s threatened by Daesh fi ghters and witnesses how those beliefs can be transformed through human rela- a public beheading.... As they travel as refugees from Syria tionships.” Pub Wkly to Turkey to Greece, facing danger at every turn, Tareq must First published 2016 in Pan by Pan Macmillan Australia fi nd the resilience and courage to complete his harrowing Pty Ltd... Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. journey.” (Publisher’s note) “A heartbreaking, haunting, and necessary story that of- fers hope while laying bare the bleakness of the world Tareq Abrahams, Peter leaves and the new one he seeks to join.” Kirkus Reality check. HarperTeen 2009 330p $16.99; lib bdg $17.89; pa $8.99 Abdel-Fattah, Randa Grades: 7 8 9 10 Does my head look big in this? Orchard 1. School stories 2. Gambling -- Fiction 3. Social Books 2007 360p $16.99 classes -- Fiction 4. Missing persons -- Fiction Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12 ISBN 978-0-06-122766-0; 0-06-122766-8; 978-0-06- 122767-7 lib bdg; 0-06-122767-6 lib bdg; 978-0-06- 1. School stories 2. Muslims -- Fiction 3. Australia 122768-4 pa; 0-06-122768-4 pa -- Fiction 4. Clothing and dress -- Fiction LC 2008-22593 ISBN 0-439-91947-9; 978-0-439-91947-0 After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody’s col- LC 2006-29117 lege hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his 1 YYACAC 22019.indb019.indb 1 66/7/2019/7/2019 112:18:342:18:34 PPMM YOUNG ADULT FICTION CORE COLLECTION THIRD EDITION small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears Adams, Richard from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-coun- Watership Down; Scribner classics ed.; Scrib- try to join the search. ner 1996 429p $30; pa $15 “Abrahams writes a fi ne thriller that is pitched to attract Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 everyone from reluctant readers to sports fans to romantic 1. Allegories 2. Rabbits -- Fiction idealists.” Voice Youth Advocates ISBN 0-684-83605-X; 0-7432-7770-8 pa First published 1972 in the United Kingdom; fi rst United Acevedo, Elizabeth, ca. 1988- States edition 1974 by Macmillan The poet X: a novel. Elizabeth Acevedo. “Faced with the annihilation of its warren, a small group HarperTeen 2018 361 p. of male rabbits sets out across the English downs in search Grades: 9 10 11 12 of a new home. Internal struggles for power surface in this 1. Adolescence -- Fiction; 2. Dominican Americans intricately woven, realistically told adult adventure when -- Fiction; 3. High school students -- Fiction; 4. the protagonists must coordinate tactics in order to defeat Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; 5. Poetry slams -- an enemy rabbit fortress. It is clear that the author has done Fiction; 6. Poets -- Fiction; 7. Schools -- Fiction; 8. Self- research on rabbit behavior, for this tale is truly authentic.” esteem -- Fiction; 9. Teenage girls -- Fiction; 10. Harlem Shapiro Fic for Youth. 3d edition (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction; 11. Teenage girls -- Fiction; 12. Bildungsromans Adeyemi, Tomi ISBN 9780062662828; 9780062662804, $17.99 Children of blood and bone. By Tomi Adey- LC 2017943585 emi. Henry Holt & Co. 2018 531 p. Map (Legacy of Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: Fiction and Poetry Orisha) (2018); National Book Award: Young People’s Literature Grades: 9 10 11 12 (2018); Kirkus Prize Finalist: Young Readers’ Literature 1. Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; 2. Government, (2018) Resistance to -- Fiction; 3. Magic -- Fiction; 4. Prejudices In this novel, by Elizabeth Acevedo, “Xiomara...feels -- Fiction unheard and unable to hide...Ever since her body grew into 9781250170989; 9781250170972, $18.99 curves, she has learned to let her fi sts and her fi erceness do LC 2017021080 the talking.... With Mami’s determination to force her...to Kirkus Prize Finalist: Young Readers’ Literature (2018) obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her In this book in the Legacy of Orisha series, by Tomi Ad- thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to eyemi, “Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how hummed with magic.... [But] under the orders of a ruthless she could ever attend without her mami fi nding out.” (Pub- king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and lisher’s note) her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring “Themes as diverse as growing up fi rst-generation back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help American, Latinx culture, sizeism, music, burgeoning sex- of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown uality, and the power of the written and spoken word are prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.” all explored with nuance. Poignant and real, beautiful and (Publisher’s note) intense, this story of a girl struggling to defi ne herself is as “Well-drawn characters, an intense plot, and deft writing powerful as Xiomara’s name: ‘one who is ready for war.’” make this a strong story. That it is also a timely study on Kirkus race, colorism, power, and injustice makes it great.” Kirkus Includes bibliographical references (page 527). Aceves, Fred The closest I’ve come. Fred Aceves. HarperTeen Adlington, L. J. 2017 310 p. The diary of Pelly D. Greenwillow Books Grades: 9 10 11 12 2005 282p hardcover o.p. pa $8.99 1. Friendship -- Fiction; 2. High schools -- Fiction; 3. Grades: 7 8 9 10 Hispanic Americans -- Fiction; 4. Schools -- Fiction; 1. Science fi ction 5. Single-parent families -- Fiction; 6. Tampa (Fla.) -- ISBN 0-06-076615-8; 0-06-076617-4 pa Fiction; 7. Hispanic Americans -- Fiction; 8. Prejudices LC 2004-52258 -- Fiction “On the planet Home From Home, Toni V is a brute la- 9780062488534, $17.99; 9780062489876 borer, a barely educated member of the Demolition Crew In this book, by Fred Aceves, “Marcos Rivas yearns for that is busy pulverizing the bombed-out remains of City love, a working cell phone, and maybe a pair of sneakers Five’s central plaza. Pelly D is a hip member of the swank that aren’t falling apart. But more than anything, Marcos elite who used to live in an exclusive apartment fronting wants to get out of Maesta.... When Marcos is placed in a the plaza. Their stories come together when Toni V uncov- new after-school program, he meets Zach and Amy, whose ers Pelly D’s diary in the debris.