Wolk, Lauren
Summary: Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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Summary: "Fourteen-year-olds Abena and Faiza, girls from vastly different worlds, cross paths in chaotic Makola Market in Accra, Ghana, and forge a beautiful bond that changes the path of each of their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WOLLayden, Emily
Summary: "A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Curtis Sittenfeld, and J. Courtney Sullivan, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England prep school, as nine young women navigate their ambitions, friendships, and fears against the backdrop of a scandal the administration wants silenced. But as the months unfold, and the school's efforts to control the ensuing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAYSnyder, Laurel
Summary: Hi, whoever is reading this. I'm Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy. Things used to be simple--until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting funny; everyone at school thinks I'm weird; and my mom is making me start preparing for my bat mitzvah, even though we barely ever go to synagogue. In fact, the only thing that still seems to make sense is magic. See, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SNYLarsen, Reif.
Summary: Twelve-year-old cartographer T.S. Spivet, who can map anything, wins an award from the Smithsonian and travels from his family's ranch in Montana to the museum while drawing maps, charts, and illustrations of his adventures and slowly learning that some human emotions are difficult to depict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARGroff, Lauren.
Summary: The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROWillig, Lauren
Summary: September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world's most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILHolt, Victoria
Summary: A child's poem acts as a constant reminder of a past that could never be revealed in the seemingly idyllic hamlet of Harper's Green.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, 2013
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIDKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KIDMoriarty, Laura
Summary: This is the story of a 10-year-old math prodigy, Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother. Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORHopper, Laura
Summary: After learning that her seemingly-happy parents are separating, and that a popular senior is interested in her, seventeen-year-old Janey King's priorities shift from track, school, friends, and family to something more
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HOPKalpakian, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALBrichoux, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIKingsbury, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIRSchneck, Colombe
Summary: "A woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: Inseparable friends since childhood, brothers David and Michael and their neighbor Kay embark on a night of adventure during which a drug-influenced David jumps off a bridge and sets a devastating series of events in motion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBWalter, Laura Maylene
Summary: "From debut novelist Laura Maylene Walter, a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own--except that the markings on women's bodies reveal the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALMcNeal, Laura Lane.
Summary: "A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in Civil Rights-era New Orleans--a novel of Southern eccentricity, secrets, and laughter. When Ibby Bell's father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's Victorian house is like no place Ibby has ever been--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mcneal 2014Walker, Karen Thompson.
Summary: On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012