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Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)

Summary: While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2019

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

Johnston, Aviaq

Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017

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Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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

Huerta, Lizz

Summary: "Indir is a Dreamer, descended from a long line of seers; able to see beyond reality, she carries the rare gift of Dreaming truth. But when the beloved king dies, his son has no respect for this time-honored tradition. King Alcan wants an opportunity to bring the Dreamers to a permanent end--an opportunity Indir will give him if he discovers the two secrets she is struggling to keep. As violent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022

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

O'Shaughnessy, Kate

Summary: When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Menon, Uma

Summary: "Recounting her mother's migration from India and how she came to speak two languages--Malayalam and English--a young girl shows how the gift of multilingualism can transport people across borders and around the world"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

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Hanlon, Abby

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HAN

Lewis, Kayvion

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Fipps, Lisa

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

McNeil, Gretchen

Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024

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

Gurtler, Janet

Summary: Ever since her father disappeared Shyanna's home has been a sad place, but if the twelve-year old mermaid can conquer her stage fright before the Melody Pageant, she hopes to win the contest and bring song back to her mother's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015

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Sumner, Jamie

Summary: Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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

Netz, Mo

Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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

Rice, Luanne

Summary: Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017

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Johnson, Varian

Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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McCullough, Joy

Summary: Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

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

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Summary: After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HAD

Anderson, Jodi Lynn

Summary: When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021

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

Robson, Laura Brooke

Summary: Scholarly and soft-spoken, seventeen-year-old Thea escapes from her mother's pirate ship and into the arms of a charming sailor whose betrayal forces Thea to reconsider her mother's lessons about surviving in a man's world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022

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

O'Clover, Ellen

Summary: "The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping to figure out how they fit into each other's lives, but is unaware of how much this summer will upend her carefully planned life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'CL

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OCL

Theule, Larissa

Summary: A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THE

Hitchcock, Shannon

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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

Novak, Ali

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Summary: Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared, and when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017

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Isler, Emily Barth

Summary: "Musical prodigy Rosie stops playing the violin, upsetting her ambitious mother but making room in her life for new experiences, including a glitch in space-time that lets her meet her mom as a twelve-year-old"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ISL

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