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Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student’s untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.
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On the Come Up is the story of Bri, a gifted 16-year-old rapper, who attempts to take the battle rap scene by storm in order to lift up her family and do right by the legacy of her father – a local hip hop legend whose career was cut short by gang violence. But when her first hit song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself torn between the authenticity that got her this far and the false persona that the industry wants to impose upon her.
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Katy Swartz moves with her mother to small-town West Virginia, resigning herself to thick accents and a boring life. She is hopeful after meeting her neighbors who are a shot of life, and the brother and sister tandem becomes even more interesting when it turns out they are aliens. When she falls for the brother and he touches her, it marks her as a homing device for an army of extraterrestrial bad guys.
Pia, a young woman created to be immortal by scientist somewhere in the Amazon jungles, escapes her compound on her 17th birthday, meets a village boy named Eio, and goes on an adventure to find the truth of her origin.
The story of a materialistic New York girl who gets sent on an Outward Bound program after she fails gym class.
Two thousand years in the future, 16-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin lives on the colonized moon and meets a girl from Earth who is drawn to him because of his the ability to see the future.