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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CABSwanson, Matthew
Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWAMills, Claudia
Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILSchreiber, Gretchen
Summary: Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes her consider the extraordinary possibilities of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHLopez, Loretta
Summary: As Elisa, Lucia, and Alice grapple with internal struggles and hidden challenges while navigating middle school in New York City, they find unexpected friendship and support when they let go of their preconceived notions of each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers / Seven Stories Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOPMian, Zanib
Summary: "Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIAKorman, Gordon
Summary: "Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORSchumacher, Ashley
Summary: When a school-wide personality test reunites Nova with Sam--and reveals they are each other's top matches--they begin to remember why they were such close friends all those years before and why a romantic relationship between them would never work out--or so they think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHWhittemore, Jo
Summary: When Maya starts spending a lot of time with Maddie, an old friend, her friends from coding club worry she won't finish her part of the project, coding the lights and music for the winter dance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, she sees it as a chance to start over and get away from what happened at her old school--but soon an anonymous podcast begins revealing humiliating secrets about the other students, and threatening to expose Jordyn's secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOUrsu, Anne
Summary: "The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: The girls in the coding club are preparing their voting app for the school talent show, but when they discover Erin is secretly suffering from anxiety they band together to find her help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: "Spunky sixth-grader Zoe Sparks has discovered a unique way to get the laptop of her dreams--to win it! If Zoe can sell more tubs of cookie dough than anyone in her school, the laptop is hers. It's the first step to becoming a prize-winning journalist! But her win-at-all-costs attitude is starting to drive a wedge between Zoe, her best friend Felix, and her family. Zoe may be a top cookie-dough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPAnna, Holly
Summary: When Daisy Dreamer's imaginary friend, Posey, joins her at school, he nearly ruins the group project she and her friends are working on although he is trying to be helpful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANNBailey, Jenn
Summary: Henry, a first grader on the autism spectrum, attempts to navigate friendships, and sudden changes in classroom routines--like a parade on Friday instead of share time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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Summary: Navigating toxic friendships, grief, and the complexities of growing up, Nora's life takes a tragic turn when her best friend Julia dies, leaving her to unravel the secrets and lies hidden in their friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Eight-year-old Kwame is eager to start Nkonyaa School and learn calabash magic, yet none of the teachers can figure out what kind of magic is in his calabash--but when one of Kwame's new friends is possessed by an evil magic his power is revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2024
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Summary: An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
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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 CLAKahaney, Amelia
Summary: Told in alternating voices, childhood friends Syd, Rain, and Brie's final weeks of high school ends tragically when one dies in a fire, another goes missing, and the third is left to pick up the pieces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022