Acevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEHood, Susan
Summary: In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOOAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEEngle, Margarita.
Summary: When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENGMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MyersWolf, Allan
Summary: "In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOLSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Two sisters mourn their father's death after his plane crashes on a flight to the Dominican Republic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ACEArango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARANagai, Mariko
Summary: When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NAGPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWEverman, Cookie Hiponia
Summary: Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EVEElliott, Zetta
Summary: In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLHopkins, Ellen
Summary: After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOPFipps, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPMcCullough, Joy
Summary: A novel in prose and verse by the author of the National Book Award-longlisted Blood Water Paint follows the experiences of a teen who finds courage in the story of a 15th-century avenger when her sister's rapist is set free without prison time. "Em Morales's sister was raped after a frat party. A jury found the attacker guilty on all counts - remarkable verdict that Em felt more than a little...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCEngle, Margarita
Summary: Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Crossan, Sarah.
Summary: Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CROWissinger, Tamera Will
Summary: "Camping is fun. Until it's time to sleep. Then, Lucy wonders, what kinds of creatures lurk in the dark? With only her brother and grandpa as tent mates, will Lucy be able to face her camping fears? Includes a variety of poetic forms--from aubade to haiku--as well as writing tips about rhyme and rhythm"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WISAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACECulley, Betty
Summary: Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CULCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CULBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURDel Rosario, Juleah
Summary: Told in two voices, sisters Row and Ariana are frozen by grief over their mother's death, years before, until Ariana leaves for reasons Row does not understand. After her mother died a few years ago, Rowena and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive. When...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DELArango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022