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Familles monoparentales Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction High schools Fiction High schools Juvenile fiction Schools Fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Single-parent families Single-parent families Fiction Single-parent families Juvenile fictionKinsey-Warnock, Natalie.
Summary: Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINMonninger, Joseph
Summary: In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MONPhilippe, Ben
Summary: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHIKatcher, Brian.
Summary: With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATLai, Remy
Summary: "Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LAISantiago, Elizabeth
Summary: Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANMessner, Kate
Summary: Believing his long-absent father is missing and leaving clues behind through geocaching, Zig, thirteen, relies on his love of electronics, a garage sale GPS unit, and his best friend, Gianna, to search for answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESThomas, Leah
Summary: Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC THOAcampora, Paul
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 ACAKlages, Ellen
Summary: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KLALee, Lyla
Summary: Mindy and her dad can't wait to compete in her school's annual family trivia night. The big prize? A year of free pizza. And she gets to be on a team with her best friend, Sally, and her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEESosna-Spear, Quinn
Summary: Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterhorn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPE[Fic]Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Sosna-Spear 2019Lee, Lyla
Summary: It's Mindy Kim's birthday, and she's having the best day ever. Not only is she having a fun party with her friends, but she's also getting the most perfect present from her dad: a puppy. But Mindy quickly finds out that cute, cuddly little Theodore is a lot more work than she thought. With some extra love (and some tasty treats), Mindy is on a mission to help the newest member of the Kim family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LEEManning, Matthew K.
Summary: When Sai Patel, fifteen, is framed for crimes he did not commit, his online friends of Drone Academy help him locate the Copycat drone and prove his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KELMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: Things are getting tense at home for Nicky and Kenny as they wait for a visit from their estranged mother. To escape, they go for a walk on the moors, taking their little Jack Russell terrier with them. But what should have been a laugh, a lark, turns deadly when the weather changes and they are caught in a blizzard. Nothing will ever be quite the same again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Lydia, feeling threatened by the attention her changing body is getting from boys and men, finds a way to take control of her own skin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: When Cara accidentally posts a rant about her father and his new wife online, it goes viral-- and catches the attention of the TV producers behind a new reality dating show for single parent families. Now Cara and her mother have been whisked away to sunny Key West where they're asked to narrow a field of suitors and their kids down to one winning pair. It's outside Cara's comfort zone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANMiller, Jessica
Summary: When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILPearsall, Shelley
Summary: When 13-year-old Josh finds out that he has to stay with his dad in Chicago for a few months, he's not too thrilled. But when he arrives at the airport, he's simply devastated. His father has become a sideburnwearing, hip-twisting, utterly-embarrassing Elvis impersonator. Josh is determined to keep his dad's identity a secret, but on his very first day at his new school, a note appears on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PEAMacGregor, Maya
Summary: An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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Summary: When seventh-grader Piper's father is hired by Chumley Prep, a school where every student seems to be the best at everything, she gets the chance to compete for the prestigious Excelsior Award.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRAMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: Life's not easy for Nicky. His mother is gone, his dad's out on bail, and his older brother, Kenny, needs looking after like a little kid. When Kenny drags Nicky out of bed one dark morning, Nicky has no idea that he is about to witness a terrible act of destruction, and the senseless killing of an innocent animal. But Nicky manages to save something precious from the disaster, and his and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024