2021 Books for Missouri Students
The sequel to Girls with Sharp Sticks by The Program author, Suzanne Young does not disappoint. Mena and the other girls of Innovations Academy enroll in Ridgeview Prep, seeking revenge against the corporation that traumatized them at Innovations Academy, but they still face many obstacles.The continuing story of Mena and her classmates will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Savannah is kidnapped shortly after arguing with her mom’s boyfriend. Everyone assumes she has run away. Worse is the fact Savannah is not alone. Jenny was taken ten months earlier and nearly died trying to escape.
Jenna’s never let her cerebral palsy get her down. But when she discovers that her condition was actually caused by an injury at birth, she’s furious with her parents, who withheld the truth. An as they push her to get yet another difficult procedure, Jenna feels her control over her life starting to slip.
After ten years of living on an isolated, tech-free ranch with her mother, sixteen-year-old Hedda is going back to the world of the Glare, her word for cell phones, computers, and tablets. Hedda was taught to be afraid of technology, afraid that it would get inside her mind and hurt her. But now she’s going to stay with her dad in California, where she was born, and she finally ready to be normal.
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn’t empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there and she mistakes Allison for an old friend named Toffee.
Tavia and Effie, best friends and sirens with secrets best kept. Everything changes when a well know celebrity reveals she is also a siren and a siren murder trial rocks the nation. Nothing seems safe.
When she was 14, South Korean teen Chuna moved to Alabama after her single mother marries. Robin Ha recounts her experience as a lonely teen, one who eventually learned to belong by concentrating on her art.
The term “Apple” is a slur in Native communities across the country. It’s for someone supposedly “red on the outside, white on the inside.”
Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds.
The deadliest war in U.S. history also led to a great deal of medical progress. Jarrow’s expert use of primary sources makes for a harrowing, gruesome, and enlightening account.
In 1992 Amra’s life is forever changed when Serbian troops seize her hometown of Bihac, Bosnia. Her family and other Muslims face hate, violence, and unimaginable horrors of war.
Gene doesn’t get sports. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it’s all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships.
Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’s lives, but his own life as well.
1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned sixteen-year-old Seol is living out the ancient curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Indentured to the police bureau, she’s been tasked with assisting a well-respected young inspector with the investigation into the politically charged murder of a noblewoman.
As they delve deeper into the dead woman’s secrets, Seol forms an unlikely bond of friendship with the inspector. But her loyalty is tested when he becomes the prime suspect, and Seol may be the only one capable of discovering what truly happened on the night of the murder.
But in a land where silence and obedience are valued above all else, curiosity can be deadly.
200 years after Cinderella, teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where men of the kingdom select wives. Girls who do not find a match are considered “forfeit” and most are never heard from again. Sophia flees from the ball and finds herself in the midst of the mystery that is taking place in the palace and kingdom.
After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility.
When Mildred and Richard Loving are arrested, jailed, and exiled from their home simply because of their mixed-race marriage, they must challenge the courts and the country in order to secure their civil rights.
Phuc Tran immigrated to America along with his family from Vietnam in 1975. Phuc grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, struggling to fit in while also living up to his parents’ (especially his father’s) expectations.
Sydney Reilly leaves her private school to spend the summer with her famous mother in San Francisco. The summer does not turn out like Sydney expects and spins out of control before she can even begin to realize the danger she and her mother are in.
Sophie and Mariah Carter, orphaned identical twins bounce from home to home in Victorian England. When a widowed aunt decides to present Sophie to society, the girls scheme to find a place for themselves and stay together.
Fourteen teens relocated from Japantown, San Francisco to Japanese internment camps during WWII.
It has been three years since Sia’s mother was deported to Mexico, escaped, an attempted to walk across the Sonoran Desert to return home. Sia has never given up hope and lights candles monthly for her mother’s safe return. An unusual turn of events leads to information Sia and her father never expected.
Camino Rios and Yahaira Rios are unaware of the others existence until their father is killed in a plane crash on his way to spend the summer with Camino in the Dominican Republic.
What does it mean to be a Player? Players rule the school. Players have the inside track to tests, college prep, and college admissions. Who wouldn’t want to be a Player? But, being a member means Freshmen must be at the beck-and-call of seniors and to never say no to a request. What really happened that night at the beach during Jill and Shaila’s freshman year?
What do you do when an eccentric billionaire names you as his heir over his children and grandchildren, a billionaire who is a stranger to you? Avery Grambs makes the decision to move into the mansion as required and try to get to the bottom of the mystery of who Tobias Hawthorne is and why he left her as the heir to nearly his entire fortune.
Honey Juniper and her sisters are prepared for the world to end they are not however, prepared for their world to be turned on its side.
It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet American, French, Indian, Muslim is at a crossroads. The holiday with her parents should be a dream trip but she might have just blown her chance at her dream college. Khayyam meets Alexandre Dumas, descendant of THE Alexandre Dumas, and her whole summer changes.
The remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future.
Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she’s learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase.
Toothbrush? Yes.
Socks? Yes.
Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope!
There’s no room for any additional baggage.
Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she’s free. One year to avoid anything–or anyone–that could get in her way.
Then she meets Francine. And Kira. And Sean.
And everything changes.