Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers (#QP2020) Nominees Round Up, November 19 Edition

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Cover artNot Even Bones (Market of Monsters #1) by Rebecca Schaeffer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published September 4th, 2018
ISBN: 9781328863591

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Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters #2) by Rebecca Schaeffer
HMH Books for Young Readers
Published September 3rd, 2019
ISBN: 9781328863553

Nita is an expert at dissection.  She dissects the dead bodies of “unnaturals” that her mother brings to her to sell the pieces on the dark web parts market. But when her mother brings a live specimen home with the intent to sell fresh parts piece by piece, Nita reaches her limit and frees the captive boy.  Within hours she finds herself, with her secret unnatural abilities, in a cage and under threat of torture and the death that her subjects once endured. Now she must find an escape, while still maintaining the fine line of morality she has always tread upon. Continue reading Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers (#QP2020) Nominees Round Up, November 19 Edition

Booklist: New LGBTQIAP+ Nonfiction for Pride Month

June is LGBTQ Pride Month: a time celebrate and recognize the impact that LGBTQ people have in the world. June was chosen for Pride Month as a way to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots that have been seen as the landmark event that propelled the movement for LGBTQ civil rights.

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