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Fate and fatalism Fiction Friendship Fiction Goddesses, Greek Fiction Gods, Greek Fiction Identity Fiction LGBTQ+ people Fiction Novels in verse Névroses obsessionnelles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Obsessive-compulsive disorder Fiction Obsessive-compulsive disorder Juvenile fictionSchlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: A novel in verse relates the story of Rhaskos and Melisto, one a common slave and the other a spoiled aristocrat, who are bound together by fate and form an unlikely friendship that crosses the boundary of life and death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Schlitz 2021Schlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHCole, Olivia A.
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLCole, Olivia A.
Summary: Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024