Williams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: There's Trina, a pretty, self-involved artist who's sure she's bringing beauty and color to the lives of everyone around her, regardless of what they really think. There's Leticia, who skates by on minimal effort; she's more interested in her cell phone, her nails, and gossip than school. And there's Dominique, an angry basketball player who's been benched for low grades. When Trina unknowingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILShaw, Tucker
Summary: New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: "Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: allí permite que sus manos le digan qué cocinar, sigue su intuición y agrega una pequeña pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ACESussman, Elissa
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Hayley Saffitz, a confident, ambitious, aspiring animation director, participates in her idol's summer program but must risk her blossoming relationship with his son if she is to prove she is as talented as the boys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEJordan, Anna E.
Summary: "The switcheroo fun of The Parent Trap meets the showbiz spirit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this timeless coming-of-age story about family, friendship, and following your dreams. When Shira and Esther first meet, they can hardly believe their eyes. It's like looking in a mirror! But even though they may look identical, the two girls couldn't be more different. Shira dreams of singing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JORMurphy, Jennifer
Summary: "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurphyLi, Charmaine Anne
Summary: "This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different--to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LISilver, Noa
Summary: Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocates from New England to the Bay Area in 2011 for a placement as an English teacher with Teach for America. Once there, she is eager to inspire a love of poetry and literature in her diverse but underprivileged students. Her own grandfather—a Holocaust survivor—was a storyteller and teacher who touched the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC SILSmyth, Ciara
Summary: A teen girl, Aideen, makes a journey from self-protectively tough to ready and willing to face her main problem: her single mother's alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMYLeavitt, Martine
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like her -- a girl filled with ideas and opinions? Someone gallant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEALee, 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 LEETheroux, Paul
Summary: "At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THEArdone, Viola
Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Children's Train comes a heartrending coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries-old tradition to win the right to control her own life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDFlinn, Alex
Summary: Britta is the bubbly drama queen. Meredith is the overachiever. Kate is the reluctant socialite. Spider is the quiet intellectual. When these four very different young women stay together for a month in the mountains, they discover that sometimes getting away from it all can only bring you back to who you really are. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Flinn 2019Sambury, Liselle
Summary: After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMDavis, Dana
Summary: Dylan and Langston used to be best friends. After he moved away, Langston became a star R&B artist. He returns for visit and stays with Dylan and her family. They start to renew their friendship--and maybe see their relationship grow into something else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DAVLee, 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 LEEDickens, Charles
Summary: Gives a description of David Copperfield's life until middle age, with his adventures and the web of friends and enemies he meets along his way. David finds career success as an author, and is a person of deep emotions. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens's own life, and it is often considered his veiled autobiography. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Easton Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICLarson, Hope
Summary: It's January 1, 1996, and high school junior Christine wants more than anything to be that cool girl everyone notices, like her gorgeous best friend, Landry. She usually hates New Year's resolutions, but this year she vows to be that shiny kind of girl--and record it all in her diary through prose, illustration, and comics. When Landry drops her, Christine is surprised to discover just how much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LARAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019