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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Dysfunctional families Juvenile fiction Families Fiction Families Juvenile fiction Family problems Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Grief Juvenile fiction Novels in verse Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile fictionEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGFipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEArango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARAWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEABurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURReynolds, Jason
Summary: During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REY (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Brunskill, Amelia
Summary: A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicion and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLIHood, Susan
Summary: In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOOMcBride, Amber
Summary: When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCBDuBois, Caroline Brooks
Summary: After a devastating tornado tears apart her home, thirteen-year-old Quinn struggles to find stability and return to who she was before, finding she has to rebuild herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUBFipps, Lisa
Summary: Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPIloh, Candice
Summary: Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. When a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ILOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ILOFarid, Diana
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARSawyerr, Hannah V.
Summary: In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAWElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHWaters, Charles
Summary: "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WATEngle, Margarita
Summary: When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: "In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ENGKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Danna Mendoza Villarreal's grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna's not sure her plan to help him remember through the foods he once reviewed will be enough to bring him back. Especially when her own love of food makes her complicated relationship with her mother even more difficult. Raúl Santos has been lost ever since his mother was wrongly incarcerated two years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEMDuBois, Caroline Brooks
Summary: Before the storm, thirteen-year-old Quinn was happy flying under the radar. She was average. After the storm, Quinn can't seem to go back to unremarkable. But her friends weren't changed by the tornado. To them, the storm left behind a playground of abandoned houses and distracted adults. As Quinn struggles to find stability in the tornado's aftermath, she must choose: between homes,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023