Novoa, Gabe Cole
Summary: Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one that could not have been Copper--it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURRuths, Mitali Banerjee
Summary: At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RUTForest, Laurie
Summary: Elloren Gardner is the Black Witch of Prophecy, and destined to triumph, or be used as the ultimate weapon of destruction. Separated from everyone she loves, isolated and hunted, Elloren must turn to Commander Lukas Grey. With the Mage forces of Gardneria poised to conquer all of Erthia, Elloren has no choice but to ally with Lukas and combine their power to keep herself out of the hands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy ForestRellihan, Anne
Summary: Eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could turn back time to mend her friendship with Francie after a terrible fight, so when Lou befriends Cece she is eager to prove herself, but as she uncovers the truth about Cece's family, she grapples with what being a good friend means.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RELOlson, Jessica S.
Summary: She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OLSKessler, Liz
Summary: "Aaron wishes he were special like his best friends, Emily Windsnap and Shona Silkfin. But nothing exciting ever happens at his castle in the middle of the ocean. That is, until a mysterious ship visits, and all the crew members are strangely interested in Aaron's trident pendant. One even asks to take a closer look at it . . . and later Aaron realizes he never got it back! With Emily and Shona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KESWest, Jacqueline
Summary: Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WESRalph, Vincent
Summary: Each Halloween Sam, Harran, Elisha, Laureen, and Dom hold a funeral for their secrets in an abandoned hut, but when their ritual is disrupted and they start receiving threatening messages, the friends must uncover their blackmailer before all their secrets are told and their lives ruined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Fiona finds a mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a disappearance. Soon Fiona begins to notice strange similarities that blur the lines between the novel and her new town. With a little help from a few odd Lost Lake locals, Fiona uncovers the book's strange history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WESKonigsberg, Bill
Summary: It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: On the other side of Medio's border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause. Carmen Santos is one of La Voz's best soldiers: she spent years undercover, but now, with her identity exposed and the island on the brink of a civil war, Carmen returns to La Voz's headquarters. There she must reckon with her beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEJRubin, Adam
Summary: While Raccoon is eating pizza at his secret pizza party, he sees a masquerade party going on in the house next door to him and joins the fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RUBPlatt, Cynthia
Summary: Lexi has always wanted to know more about the mother who passed away when she was only a child, but her dad will barely talk about her. She loves her stepmom, and her half-brother, but is it so wrong to want to learn about the mom she never got to know? When Lexi's grandmother leaves her a chest that belonged to her mother, it contains letters, pamphlets, flyers, and news articles all from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PLASoontornvat, Christina
Summary: "A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. This is the story of a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman - and in a kingdom where the status...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SOOLapite, Shade
Summary: In this thrilling Afro-fantasy, the first set in the lush, opulent kingdom of Galla, a girl raised in secret must leave her sheltered rural home for the subtle dangers of the royal court, where she becomes caught up in deadly power struggles and romantic intrigue. Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the forested East after her parents were outed as enemies of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAPHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2019Zimmermann, Laura
Summary: Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and her younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZIMAlender, Katie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Just when fifth-grader Xander Stone decides to give up his long search for magical creatures, he encounters three Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns, who were banished from the magical world of Pegasia after an encounter with a mysterious object leaking green gas turned them into smelly, zombie-like, rainbow-upchucking creatures--and Xander will need to keep his wits about him if he is to hide the true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MANMiller, Keith F.
Summary: "Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be...Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as everything in his world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILLondon, Alex
Summary: Fleeing her prince, Rosamund discovers the Princess Protection Program, an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates and unwanted kisses, and as she adapts to real-world life and forms close friendships, she begins to question the academy's secrets and the possibility of changing her own story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LONWilde, Rhiannon
Summary: The Prince sisters, Cinnamon and Scarlett, struggle with family dynamics, queer identities, and mental health while their recently deceased great aunt's secrets begin to unravel around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILLanders, Melissa
Summary: In a world where magical Mystics exist alongside humans, sixteen-year-old Talia is thrust into the most powerful and secretive Mystic family--and accused of trying to murder them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022