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Poison Town
Everything seems sick in Addie’s town; even the crows have trouble flying. Now she's out to prove the local plant is covering up its polluting ways.
$16.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 12-18Reading level: Grade 6Lexile Reading Level: HL670L
Shades of Black
How big a price should a Black teen have to pay to feel safe in a dangerous new environment?
$16.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Lexile Reading Level: HL700L
Creeboy
In the literary tradition of The Outsiders comes a coming-of-age novel about teen boys and Indigenous gangs.
$14.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 2Lexile Reading Level: HL590L
Denial
A teen novel about pregnancy denial.
$14.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 2Lexile Reading Level: HL490L
Open Secrets
A teen girl faces sexual harassment and misogyny when she tries to succeed in the local music scene.
$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 2Lexile Reading Level: HL550L
Spin Out
A teen has to come to terms with his life when online car-racing and reality collide.$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 3
Locked Up
A teen fears that years in juvenile detention have made it impossible for him to make a life in the outside world.$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 2Lexile Reading Level: HL520L
On the Run
A teen realizes the only way to stop ending up back in juvenile detention is to take responsibility for his decisions.$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 2Lexile Reading Level: HL580L
Push Back
Zaine enters a restorative justice agreement to avoid criminal charges. But will his rage or some new gang members land him back on the streets first?$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 4Lexile Reading Level: HL600L
Cold Grab
Recently arrived from the Philippines, Angelo needs friends to fit in, but he gets in with a group of teens involved in crime.$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: HL560L
Ride or Die
Kanika, a 15-year-old Black girl from a small town, is lured into the sex trade when she falls for an older teenage boy. Based on true-events, this book recounts the physical and emotional abuse experienced by young victims of sex trafficking, and how one girl survives and escapes.$12.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 4Lexile Reading Level: HL610L
The Missing
Who will stand up for missing and murdered women?
$14.95, PaperbackInterest ages: 13-18Reading level: Grade 3Lexile Reading Level: HL590L