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XTreme Picks for April

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book jacketDizzy in Your Eyes by Pat Mora.  A collection of 50 poems about love from an award winning author and poet.  This collection explores the intensity, pain, and beauty that love brings- from first crush to love’s bloom, from a breakup catastrophe to starting over.
 


Fallen
by Lauren Kate.  Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.



book jacketLockdown by Walter Dean Myers.  Teenager Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.




book jacketThe Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had to by D.C. Pierson. Fifteen-year-old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for a planned film series and book tie-ins, befriends Eric, another outcast who reveals that he never sleeps.


book jacketRikers High by Paul Volponi.  Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.




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