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Lewers, Nedda

Summary: Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEW

North, Phoebe

Summary: "Tells the story about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories, real and imagined, that they tell themselves to fill the empty spaces"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NOR

Cheng, Jack

Summary: "Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHE

Yang, Kelly

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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Parra, Jessica

Summary: Following her sister's disastrous quinceañera and her mother's sudden passing, sixteen-year-old Castillo strives to regain control of her life, but when she books a job to plan another quinceañera she finds her carefully devised plans unraveling.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024

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Walsh, Jenni L.

Summary: After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1940, young Jody copes with the upheaval of war and the challenges of keeping her family together by completing a bucket list with her dog Happy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2024

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WAL

Callen, Rocky

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she is falling for"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Torres, Jennifer

Summary: "A meteorite falls into the desert near Vega's family store while her cousin Mila is staying with them, turning the girls' summer upside down and leading to surprising discoveries and friendships"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOR

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

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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Mills, Claudia

Summary: Twelve-year-old Sonnet grapples with the loss of her grandfather's apple orchard, disrupted by a housing development, and forms an uneasy relationship with her neighbor Zeke after they discover a family secret that has the potential to disrupt Sonnet's family or bring about healing and growth.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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Hanlon, Abby

Summary: Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Kelkar, Supriya

Summary: When ten-year-old Indian American Geetanjali, part of a family of classical Hindustani music singers, believes her neighbor has become an ichchaadari naagin, a cobra that can turn human, she must overcome her fears and harness the power of her voice before the naagin changes the whole town into snakes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEL

Igharo, Jane

Summary: After the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Enore Adesuwa moves with her family from Nigeria to America, where she intends to keep a low profile her senior year, but with the help from her sister, new friends, and crush, Enore finds her voice in more ways than one.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC IGH

Novoa, Gabe Cole

Summary: Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOV

Hussain, Anika

Summary: Best friends Zara and Adnan navigate the twists and turns of fake dating, family dynamics, and cultural stereotypes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUS

Maldonado, Crystal

Summary: Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, tons of followers on Instagram. Except it's all fake. Max is actually 17-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic, bisexual Puerto Rican teenager living in Bakersfield, California. While Kat's life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max: doling out advice, sharing beautiful photos, networking with famous influencers, even making a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

Cabot, Meg

Summary: Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAB

Kinney, Jeff

Summary: "In Diper Överlöde, book 17 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley is finding out that the road to fame and glory comes with some hard knocks. When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Morris, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MOR

Leno, Katrina

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Anna Lucia Bell expects the worst from her summer vacation in Rockport with her recently divorced parents, but everything changes with the arrival of new friendships and a magical comet that lead Anna to broaden her understanding of herself, love, and friendship.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEN

Miller, Keith F.

Summary: "Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be...Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as everything in his world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIL

Li, Christina

Summary: "Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LI

Rogers, Shannon C. F.

Summary: Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend--- and then punches said best friend in the face--- she is left alone with nothing but a burning anger. As a new...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROG

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