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Swanson, Matthew

Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "Set in the mid-1970s, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne, who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERN

Amos, Shawn

Summary: Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AMO

Janovsky, Timothy

Summary: "Wren Roland has never been kissed, let alone been in love, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. He didn't expect a response from Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush...but now that they're working together at their hometown's vintage...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAN

Okogwu, Tola

Summary: When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OKO

Newman, Lesléa

Summary: "Dueling baker sisters Esther and Hester meet their new neighbor Sylvester, who gladly becomes their babka tester, determining which shvester's (sister's) babka is the best"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEW

Marr, Shirley

Summary: Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC MAR

Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Summary: From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistic Day in 1918, the story follows the fate of five young people on both sides of the conflict-- each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC NIE

Zepeda, Gwendolyn

Summary: "My name is Ana. Every year, my family makes tamales for Christmas. This year, I am six, so I get to mix the dough, which is made of cornmeal. My sister Lidia is eight, so she gets to spread the dough on the corn husk leaves. I wish I was eight, so that my hands would be big enough to spread the dough just right-not too thick and not too thin."

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ZEP

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ZEP

Machias, Jules

Summary: Daniel and Ash cross paths when a pomeranian is about to be euthanized; the sensitive Dan rescues the dog and Ash offers to help on a day when they are female-presenting. As the friendship grows, Ash feels less and less able to be their full self -- sometimes male and sometimes female -- in front of Dan without knowing that both people find themselves constantly at war with their non-conforming...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAC

Green, Tim

Summary: Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRE

McEwan, Ian

Summary: With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCE

Barenbaum, Rachel

Summary: "In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Deb, Sopan

Summary: "From a New York Times reporter and memoirist Sopan Deb comes a heartwarming and charmingly funny debut novel about a box in the attic that leads one Bengali-American family down a path toward rediscovering family love, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his 60s, he finds himself iced out of his traditional Bengali community after an uncouth divorce from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEB

Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)

Summary: Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEI

Patricelli, Leslie

Summary: A toddler finds out that spaghetti is yummy, but worms--and blue crayons, sand, and other things too gross to mention--are definitely yucky when eaten.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

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DiPucchio, Kelly

Summary: "Everyone loves Bacon but letting his fame go to his head may prove more dangerous than he thought"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2015

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Sumner, Jamie

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUM

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