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1) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Simon B. Rhymin' and his crew notice inequality in their school and neighborhoood, they use rhymes to help bring their community together.--
6) Dig too deep
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a nearby mountaintop removal mine is suspected of contaminating the water and sickening the residents of a small Kentucky town, sixteen-year-old Liberty Briscoe searches for answers"--
Author
Series
Slacker volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
8) Ballyhoo Bay
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Mira Bella mobilizes her art students, from grandmothers to children, crabs to seagulls, to stop a dastardly plan for turning the beach at Ballyhoo Bay into an exclusive resort, and offers an alternative--leave the beach as it is.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition ; First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unless Amy and her friends in the Critter Club can come up with an alternative plan, new stores are going to be built on the town's park, endangering the lives of the plants and animals living there.
10) On a clear day
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2035, Dahlia Grillo, a sixteen-year-old math whiz, joins with six other American teens traveling to England to meet with groups from around the world in hopes of stopping C8, the companies that control nearly everything for their own benefit.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jenna, an ardent vegetarian and environmentalist, is thrilled to be spending the summer communing with nature in rural Canada, until she discovers that not all of the rugged residents there share her beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
365 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion.
13) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait -- and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--
15) Gauge
Author
Series
Dragons of Wayward Crescent volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the town council decides to demolish the old library clock and replace it with a fancy modern one, Lucy and her mother try to save the historic timepiece--with the help of a dragon.
16) Hopepunk
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
Growing up in a conservative Christian household, Hope Cassidy spent her whole life being told that the devil speaks through Led Zeppelin. Her sister, Faith, can't be honest about dating the record shop cashier, Mavis. When their youngest sister...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a radical band of teen activists [claims] that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--
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