Summary: The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REASummary: Sue works in a library; her son Daniel eats chips and listens to Metallica. When his father and stepmother cancel his summer plans to visit them in Florida at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies, and pursue their passions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAYSummary: Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LASSummary: The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. As each character and each relationship is tested, and shows the variety of roads people choose; some tragic, some hopeful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENSummary: "Sixteen acclaimed authors--including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling novelist, and a beloved actress--join forces for a cross-genre YA anthology of linked short stories about the first days of college. Jilly cannot believe her parents keep showing up at all of her orientation events. (Except, yes, she can totally believe that.) Isaac wants to be known as someone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIRRosenbaum, Bev Katz
Summary: "Is it asking too much to live a typical twelfth grade existence? Kelsey Kendler just wants to earn some money for university, hang out with friends, maybe even snag a boyfriend. But her pill-popping mom and distant dad scare off anybody she tries to bring home, making those last two things feel impossible. Her part-time ice cream shop job's a slog, but at least there she can escape her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DCB Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSMillet, Lydia
Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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Summary: Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill--the latest in a string of issues at school--they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COBMeeker, Margaret J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McKinley & Mann 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 MEE1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 305.235 MEE
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents MeekerAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUGottfred, B. T.
Summary: Everyone, including Zee's classmates, gym buddies, and even her so-called best friend assume that she is a lesbian. Everyone who takes a look at Art's nice clothes and pretty face assume that he is gay. But there is more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. What develops is a powerful connection between two people who are beautiful in all the ways they've been told are strange. As they explore...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOTSummary: It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EvWunsch, Sacha
Summary: In a world where memories can be shared but not trusted, Nova, whose parents developed the Enhanced Memory technology, finds herself questioning their motives after she meets a boy who runs a secret vlog cataloging real experiences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WUNAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "Three girls from different worlds with one thing in comon: they were born to be wild. Robin . . . with a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's where her mom hopes to strike gold--and where Robin finds nothing but trouble. Teal . . . this rich girl will do anything to get her parents'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2003
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Contents: Dick -- Strike anywhere -- Flesh tone -- Heart shaped rock -- Rear view -- Only a thing -- Eminent domain -- Some fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006