Beating heart
By: Andrea L. Rogers
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Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection – from werewolves to vampires to zombies – all the time-worn horror baddies are there.

She Persisted: Deb Haaland
By: Laurel Goodluck
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As a child of two military parents, Deb Haaland moved around a lot when she was young before finally settling in Albuquerque to be near family. But she persisted, studying hard and eventually earning a law degree.

Funeral Song for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave.

Rex Ogle

Rex Ogle is an award-winning author and the writer of nearly a hundred children’s books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs — most notably Free Lunch, which won the ALA/YALSA award for Excell

Shadow of a young person
By: Rex Ogle

Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program.

Shadow of a boy shattered into pieces
By: Rex Ogle

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse.

Silhouette of a young man in a street light
By: Rex Ogle

When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay ― and leave.

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