Elhillo, 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 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 WATPonti, James
Summary: "So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director of the FBI keeps texting you for help ... What do you do? Save your grade? Or save the country? If you're Florian Bates, you figure out a way to do both. Florian is twelve years old and has just moved to Washington. He's learning his way around using TOAST, which stands for the Theory of All Small Things. It's a technique he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PONTrueit, Trudi Strain
Summary: Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers. Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD TRUCharaipotra, Sona
Summary: At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHAJames, Anna. (Anna Lois)
Summary: The bookwandering community is at risk when an extreme group of Librarians take over the British Underlibrary. Tilly and Oskar believe that an elusive group of bookwanderers called the Archivists may be the key to restoring balance and Tilly thinks she s discovered their whereabouts: the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMWoon, Yvonne
Summary: "At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner. Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong--buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one...
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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 WOOSnider, Brandon T.
Summary: When she seizes a piece of an ancient wand from the Servants of Evil, Wonder Woman discovers that it is infused with dark magic, and during her quest for the remaining pieces she realizes that the wand belongs to the evil Circe, who must be the Servants mysterious master--but when she brings the pieces to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., she discovers that some of the people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SNISmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIBarnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BARLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Summary: Azaleah loved her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C, and is looking forward to earning extra credit by building a diorama of a tiger in his natural habitat for extra credit--but before she can even begin her task she has to solve themystery of her younger sister's favorite missing stuffed animal because her parents and older sister are too busy and Tiana is ready to throw a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIPatterson, James
Summary: "Ali Cross and his friends chase police cases while Ali is caught up in a debate about policing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: "In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATWells, Allen R.
Summary: "Join a queer family as they celebrate Black Pride in Washington, D.C. From painting posters to walking in a Pride Parade with neighbors to watching fireworks, this special day is packed with fun"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Summary: Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC to work as an codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other girl codebreakers to find the man killing Government girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATBarry, Dave
Summary: When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer finds himself in deep trouble before the plane even lands because his best friend Matt's decided the men sitting behind them are terrorists--and it's up to the boys to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2015