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Josh discovers a virtual town that is eerily similar to his own.

When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything -- Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy. But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston -- a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.

Third grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school.

Third grader Mar?a Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school.

Twelve-year-old Emmy feels out of place in her new school. She takes a computer coding class and instantly connects to the material as well as to a new friend, Abigail--a talented singer who secretly wishes to be a coder--and Emmy feels she's finally starting to find her footing. Then she finds out that the teacher who so inspired her is gravely ill and her new-found stability seems to be at risk. Told through prose, verse, and Java code.

Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and the two men in her life: boyfriend Lance, the quarterback, and outsider Cam.

Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and the two men in her life: boyfriend Lance, the quarterback, and outsider Cam.

To avoid the violence of her stepfather, Vienna Fleury and her mother run away to a new city with no money and no where to go. As they begin to get their life back, Vienna enrolls in a new high school to finish her senior year. She even joins the grad committee. But Duncan finds Vienna and demands to know where her mother is.

While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend disappears and Ellery may be next. Determined to protect herself and get to the bottom of things, Ellery uses her knowledge of true crimes to seek out the answers to the secrets everyone in town seems to be keeping.

"Eleven-year-old Meskerem, half-Ethiopian and half-American, faces prejudice when she enters a new school just as Israel is coping with a large influx of new immigrants from Ethiopia"--Provided by publisher.