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1) The Agathas
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Agathas mysteries volume 1
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Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.
Last summer Alice Ogilvie's basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her... then she disappeared for five days. Where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle...
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Rapid City Public Library - Non-Fiction - Young Adult
YA B JOHNSON
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YA B JOHNSON
2 available
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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.
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA REDGATE
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YA REDGATE
1 available
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When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
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Blue Lock volume 1
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"After a disastrous defeat at the World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute ace striker. The Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, so Blue Lock-- a rigorous training ground for 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players-- is created. To survive this battle royale, the last striker standing will have to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in his...
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Rapid City Public Library - Non-Fiction - Young Adult
YA B DENG
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YA B DENG
1 available
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"I want life. For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped apart by the Second Sudanese Civil War. But Achut wanted to do more than merely survive. She wanted to live. The twenty-two-year civil war essentially orphaned over 20,000 children and drove them from their villages in southern Sudan. Some of these children walked over a thousand miles, through dangerous war zones and across unforgiving deserts....
6) Hollow fires
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA AHMED
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YA AHMED
1 available
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After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA SEPETYS
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YA SEPETYS
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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing. For Sadie it is a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year. When her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, Sadie is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago. Now she has to spend 265 miles in the same boat with him. It's a chance to sort out her relationship with the boy she...
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Magical boy (Graphix) volume 1
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Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil! With a sassy feline sidekick and loyal gang of friends by his side, can Max take on his destiny,...
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA WILSON
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YA WILSON
1 available
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On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA KINEW
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YA KINEW
1 available
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"An indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has...
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA JACKSON
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YA JACKSON
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"When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She...
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Amari volume 1
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Juvenile
j ALSTON Supernatural Investigations #1
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j ALSTON Supernatural Investigations #1
1 available
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Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
14) Find Layla
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA ELISON
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YA ELISON
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"SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame. With a borrowed video camera, she captures it all. When Child Protective Services comes to call, Layla loses her family and her home. Now she has to figure out how to stay whole and stand behind the truth she has shown the world"--
15) Hazard
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Young Adult
YA DOWELL
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YA DOWELL
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Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
16) Rez dogs
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Rapid City Public Library - Fiction - Juvenile
j BRUCHAC
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j BRUCHAC
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"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
17) Shark summer
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Rapid City Public Library - Graphic Novel - Juvenile
j GRAPHIC NOVEL S
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j GRAPHIC NOVEL S
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"When a Hollywood film crew arrives on Martha's Vineyard with a mechanical shark and a youth film contest boasting a huge cash prize, disgraced pitcher Gayle Blue Streak Briar sees a chance to turn a bad season into the best summer ever. After recruiting aspiring cinematographer Elijah Jones and moody director Maddie Grey, Gayle and her crew set out to uncover the truth of the island's own phantom shark and win the prize money. But these unlikely...
18) Smaller sister
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"Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confidence, and the everlasting bond of sisterhood. Lucy's always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia start to change. She doesn't want to play with Lucy anymore, she's unhappy with the way she looks, and she's refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not...
19) Snapdragon
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"Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online--after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. They make a deal: Jacks will teach Snap how to take care of the baby opossums that Snap rescued, and Snap will help Jacks with her work. But as Snap starts to get...
20) Swim team
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Rapid City Public Library - Graphic Novel - Juvenile
j GRAPHIC NOVEL S
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j GRAPHIC NOVEL S
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"Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--