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(0)Randy Ribay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family. Written in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Peña, and Walter Dean Myers, After the Shot Drops now has three starred reviews!
* "Belongs on the shelf alongside contemporary heavy-hitters like Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give,...
* "Belongs on the shelf alongside contemporary heavy-hitters like Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give,...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the Avatar volume 5
Language
English
Description
From author Randy Ribay comes a gripping new chapter-starring Avatar Roku-in the New York Times bestselling Chronicles of the Avatar series, set in the world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra.”
A young Avatar Roku has only just commenced his training at the Southern Air Temple when his erstwhile friend Prince Sozin requests his aid in preventing the Earth Kingdom from claiming a remote Fire Nation Island. Despite his...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships." -- Provided by publisher
"Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a living in the fields of California. As he spends what little money he earns at dance halls and faces increasing violence from white men in town, Francisco wonders if he should?ve never left the Philippines. Stockton, 1965. Between...
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"From David Levithan's story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people's collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970s skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical -- anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and best-selling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written...
Publisher
Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own experiences to explore themes of identity and belonging in...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules