Lockhart, E.
Summary: Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LOCAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AlcLockhart, E.
Summary: Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOC1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOC
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCWyman, Christina
Summary: Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless, and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite. She already has braces, which means she lives on Advil and soft foods after each orthodontist appointment. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WYMAvachat, Arushi
Summary: As her sister's wedding approaches, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVAWeetman, Nova
Summary: When they are selected to read speeches at their elementary school graduation, an unlikely friendship develops between two sixth-graders, one popular and one a misfit, who are facing family problems and health issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEEQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUIMorris, Chad
Summary: Eleven-year-old Juniper Berry lives off the grid in the California woods with her family, but when her brother gets sick, they have to leave to get help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023
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Summary: "Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles."-- Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOLThomas, J. E.
Summary: "The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little... competitive. Okay. They're a LOT competitive. The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win. But it won't be easy. The competition doesn't just include science, technology, engineering and math. It also has arts and sports. Not Doug's best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC THOStoddard, Lindsey
Summary: Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STOHolabird, Katharine
Summary: "Angelina Ballerina's little sister, Polly, is starting school for the first time, and she feels very shy. Angelina finds a way to help Polly make friends, and she thinks up a wonderful ballet surprise to welcome Polly and all the little mouselings to Chipping Cheddar Elementary. She is the best big sister ever!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
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Summary: "When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: I need to find out how to be fancy. How do you talk and eat fancy? How do you dress fancy? and what do you do at a fancy wedding? Don't miss more adventures with Jo Jo!-from backcover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum 2022
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Summary: "In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her. If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GELGelman, Laurie
Summary: "The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom-again-for her son's fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GELGelman, Laurie
Summary: "Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom-or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max, this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA President sees her as the "wisest" candidate for the job (or oldest), not...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017