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Fall 2024

Dancehall Rebel

What do you do when the musical culture you love comes with a legacy of intolerance? Denise is a teen who was raised on Jamaican dancehall music; her dad is a leading local DJ who has imbued… Read More →

  • Lexile: 820
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024

Guitar Notes

On odd days, Tripp uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters. On… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • ATOS: 4.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012
7 titles

Lorimer SideStreets — Hardcover Set

From the Series Lorimer SideStreets

Edgy high/low fiction for teen reluctant readers. Each SideStreets novel deals with real-world issues and features contemporary teen characters, many from diverse backgrounds. Male and female Read More →

  • Copyright: 2021
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $195.93
  • Your Price: $146.95
  • 7 titles
Cover: Naked '76
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Naked '76

London, 1976: A summer of creation, destruction, and blistering heat. Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London's growing punk scene, playing bass with one of city's wildest bands. The… Read More →

  • Lexile: 980
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2016

Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery

When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 800
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2018
Cover: Open Secrets
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Open Secrets

From the Series Lorimer SideStreets

Seventeen-year-old Ana Santos has ambitions to make it big in music. When she signs a contract with the owner of a music café, she has no idea there are sexual strings attached. This book… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021

Panic

A page-turning story about a teen's struggle to overcome her fears on her quest for truth, strength, and stardom. Madelaine loves music, loves the stage, and loves performing. When she finds… Read More →

  • Lexile: 600
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019
Cover: Scar Girl
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Scar Girl

When The Scar Boys ended, the band has fallen apart. Harry and Johnny are barely speaking, and Cheyenne is feeling desperate about Johnny, who has retreated into silence. It's only through… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 5.2
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2016
Cover: Shattered Star
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Shattered Star

From the Series Surviving Southside

What's the price of fame? Cassie is the best singer in Southside High's Glee Club and dreams of being famous. She skips school to try out for a national talent competition. But her hopes sink Read More →

  • Lexile: 390
  • ATOS: 3.2
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2011
12 titles

Surviving Southside — Audisee®—Fluent Set

From the Series Surviving Southside

This innovative YA series is a set of high-interest urban fiction novels that's written at a fourth-grade reading level, specifically designed for reluctant and striving readers, including… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2013
  • Audisee®—Fluent
  • List Price: $639.84
  • Your Price: $479.88
  • 12 titles
Cover: The Scar Boys
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The Scar Boys

A severely burned teenager. A guitar. Punk rock. The chords of a rock 'n' roll road trip in a coming-of-age novel that is a must-read story about finding your place in the world . . . even if Read More →

  • Lexile: 910
  • ATOS: 6.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

Trap Jam

From the Series Lorimer SideStreets

Olivia spends her nights drumming in a band, hanging out in clubs and drinking, and her days hungover at school. When her bandmate Lucas catches Olivia talking to her friend Raymond in the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

Turn Up for Real

From the Series The Sharp Sisters

Slade, Stanley Sharp's middle daughter, feels like the odd one out. All she wants is a group of friends who aren't her sisters—and a record deal. But after losing the Teen Miss Charlotte… Read More →

  • Lexile: 640
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014