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2) Disappeared
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Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
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"Growing up in the foster system, Quinn O'Meara made a point of never getting involved. When she discovers a crying baby amid a fiery crime scene, she knows she has no choice. Suddenly in way over her head, Quinn turns to the police, unintentionally positioning herself in the crosshairs of a deadly human-trafficking ring. The last time homicide detective Nick Saldano saw Quinn, she was still the young girl he'd shared a foster home with. The girl...
4) Little Peach
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Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and getting lured into prostitution.
6) Illegal
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To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
7) Trafficked
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A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.
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Dark caravan cycle volume 1
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"Nalia, a gorgeous, fierce eighteen-year-old jinni, is pitted against two magnetic adversaries, both of whom want her--and need her--to make a their wishes come true"--
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In The Skin I'm In, readers saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Charlese Jones, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully. Turned out of the only home she has known, Char...
10) Invisible Boy
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When a mysterious boy saves her dog's life and then disappears, Nadia decides to take a page from her comic books and investigate until she can discover his identity. The truth of the Invisible Boy, however, is complicated, and frightening, and she'll need a friend who knows what it's like to be truly brave.
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Circle C adventures volume 4
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In 1881, after a winter flood closes school temporarily, Andi is sent to Miss Whitaker's Academy for Young Ladies in San Francisco, where she and her new roommate discover that Lin Mei, who works at the school, is really a slave.
13) Finding you
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"When Isla is kidnapped by a human trafficking ring, she must rely on the memories of her love to give her the strength to escape this horrible and terrifying experience"--
14) Threads
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An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
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"Yona's travels take her to the Water Tribe's territory, which is said to be the most beautiful area in the Kingdom of Kohka. But despite this region's reputation, a drug known as 'nadai' has spread throughout the land. When one of Yona's friends becomes affected by nadai, how far will Yona go to help him?"--Back cover.
17) Nine days
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Tenth-graders Ethan and Ti-Anna go to Hong Kong seeking her father, an exiled Chinese democracy activist who has disappeared, and follow his trail to Vietnam and back, also uncovering illegal activity along the way. Includes author's note and the history behind the novel written by the girl who inspired it.
18) Saint death
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"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border."--
19) The cruelty
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Cruelty volume 1
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When seventeen-year-old Gwendolyn Bloom's father vanishes, she sets out across Europe under a new identity to bring him back alive, even if that means becoming as cruel as his captors.
