Arlow, Jake Maia
Summary: "Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: Ava and Gen, best friends, are heading off to their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the country. They stay in touch with texts and emails, documenting their weird roommates, self-discovery, coming out, and mental health. As each changes and grows into her new life, will their friendship survive the distance?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2017
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACALockington, Mariama
Summary: While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOCParker, Robert B.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARLim, Rebecca
Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHDairman, Tara
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICArlow, Jake Maia
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al, short for Alison, navigates an overprotective mother, growing apart from her best friend, and her first girl crush, all while her recent Crohn's diagnosis puts a knot in her stomach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARLGracia, Anna
Summary: Three Asian American teen girls look for direction in their lives as they compete against each other at an elite tennis tournament.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRAMancillas, Mónica
Summary: After her mother's sudden departure, twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez adjusts to her new life in an RV campground with her father, and finds her voice through new friendships and a love for Celia Cruz, the "queen of salsa."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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Summary: Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROJohnson, Leah
Summary: Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to work around the clock . Not at the bakery, where she helps out old Mr. Walker on the weekends. And definitely not at school, where her best friend Abby--the coolest, boldest, most talented girl in the world--drags Ellie along on her never-ending quest to "make her mark."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHMedina, Meg
Summary: For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEDVan Name, Sarah
Summary: In their familiar North Carolina beach town, Callie and her friends, Talia and Cleo, are joined by the enigmatic Polly, who introduces the idea of learning how to make themselves invisible, a plan that initially seems impossible but eventually works, leading to a recklessness that makes it increasingly difficult for the girls to return to their former selves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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Summary: "Fourteen-year-olds Abena and Faiza, girls from vastly different worlds, cross paths in chaotic Makola Market in Accra, Ghana, and forge a beautiful bond that changes the path of each of their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WOLAllen, Charlene Y.
Summary: "From debut author Charlene Allen comes a captivating YA contemporary mystery and coming-of-age story, celebrating the power of friendship, first love, and exploring the criminal justice system from the lens of restorative justice. Perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, and Maureen Johnson. In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLCollier, Nicole D.
Summary: Always turning to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies, for answers and a dose of luck, 12-year-old Maya must find the courage to write her own fortune to answer her deep-down questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLErskine, Kathryn
Summary: "Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendshipgrows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HITLowe, Mari
Summary: Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023