Enger, Leif.
Summary: Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGEnger, Leif.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2002
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Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETLarsen, 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 LARJohnson, Leah
Summary: Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to work around the clock . Not at the bakery, where she helps out old Mr. Walker on the weekends. And definitely not at school, where her best friend Abby--the coolest, boldest, most talented girl in the world--drags Ellie along on her never-ending quest to "make her mark."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHStewart, Leah
Summary: A letter from a childhood friend to whom she has not spoken in ten years and an odd legacy from her boss, elderly historian Oliver Doucet, sends Cameron on a mission to track down her old friend Sonia and deliver a mysterious package to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005
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Summary: "In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVGrossman, Lev.
Summary: As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHBoyd, Jeff
Summary: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYFoster, Brooke Lea
Summary: "In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble Irish Brooklyn neighborhood behind and ferries to glamorous Martha's Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enamored with the alluring and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Foster 2020Lee, Emery
Summary: "Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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Summary: On Agate Hill is set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to1927, and also in the present. The novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly Petree, an open-hearted and headstrong young Southern woman. The novel is framed with the letters and notes of a contemporary woman who seems almost a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1982
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Smith, Lee
Summary: Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own definition " a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a refugee girl."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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Summary: The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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Summary: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2006Lee, Susan
Summary: Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out--the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends. But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah's life seems to do--he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in common. He and all her friends are newly obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, and Hannah is not. After years of trying to embrace the American part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEBurke, James Lee
Summary: On its surface, life in Houston in the 1950s is as you'd expect: stoic fathers, restless teens, drive-in movies, and souped-up Cadillacs. But underneath lies a world shifting under high school junior Aaron Broussard's feet. There's a class war between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' as well as a real war, Korea, happening on the other side of the world. It is against this backdrop that Aaron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURLee, Marie Myung-Ok
Summary: After moving to a new suburb, a Korean American teen must fight to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community in this tragic story of bigotry and gun violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEECaldwell, Ian
Summary: "Princeton. Good Friday. 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets--to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CALBurke, James Lee
Summary: Intervening when he sees the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, Aaron Holland Broussard inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURWong, Ryan Lee
Summary: How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022