Marr, Shirley

Summary: Rebecca Stead's The List of Things That Will Not Change gets a "Space Oddity" sci-fi twist in this moving middle grade novel about one boy's journey to go back in time to prevent his parents' divorce. The present is the last place James wants to be. Since his parents have separated, he's been living two different lives and neither of them add up to the great one he used to have. He thinks about...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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

Kemp, Laekan Zea

Summary: Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Sonnenblick, Jordan

Summary: "When his parents stop talking to each other, Jesse tries to maintain his dream life in Pennsylvania away from the pressures of high school in NYC until COVID shuts the city down just days after his mother leaves his father, causing his two worlds to collide"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SON

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North, Phoebe

Summary: "Tells the story about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories, real and imagined, that they tell themselves to fill the empty spaces"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NOR

Coles, Jay

Summary: "There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COL

Hunter, H. D.

Summary: Black seventeen-year-old Zay falls in love for the first time, all while contending with being sent away to an alternative school after his previously incarcerated father comes home.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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Choldenko, Gennifer

Summary: When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHO

Gilbert, Kelly Loy

Summary: Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster/BFYR 2020

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Bird, James

Summary: "When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023

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Jae-Jones, S.

Summary: Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about--appease her stepmother's cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts under control-without having to deal with rumors of monsters re-emerging in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAE

Sánchez, Erika L.

Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018

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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SAN

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SAN