Acevedo, 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
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
Format: text
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 ACELudwig, Benjamin
Summary: Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit ... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LUDLudwig, Benjamin
Summary: Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ludwig 2017Thorpe, Rufi
Summary: "Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOLeth, Kate
Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETRekulak, Jason
Summary: Billy Marvin's first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky. Do you remember your first love? The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine...The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune . For three teenage boys--Billy, Alf, and Clark--who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rekulak 2017Prose, Francine
Summary: A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROSLee, Lyla
Summary: Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEECatton, Eleanor
Summary: After a teacher has an affair with an underage student, a group of teenage girls gains a new awareness of their own power to attract and manipulate, and when a local drama group turns the story of the affair into their year-end show, reality and drama merge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: Sasha becomes increasingly attracted to shy classmate Duane while rehearsing for a school play only to watch him succumb to depression in the wake of parental neglect.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDFagerholm, Monika
Summary: "In 1969, a young girl makes a trip from Coney Island to the swampy coastland on the rural outskirts of Helsinki, Finland. There, her death will immediately become part of local mythology, furnishing boys and girls with fodder for endless romantic imaginings. Everyone who lives near the swamp dreams about Eddie de Wire, the lost American girl. . . . For both Sandra and Doris, two lonely,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAGMurphy, Julie
Summary: Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream—and to kiss her crush. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she’s more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MURKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KIDAveyard, Victoria
Summary: "Ambientada en un reino imaginario, esta novela nos muestra a una sociedad dividida por el color de la sangre. Por un lado está la gente común que tiene sangre roja; por el otro tenemos a aquellos que poseen sangre plateada y que tienen habilidades sobrenaturales. Estos últimos forman una élite cerrada y llena de privilegios. La protagonista es Mare, una chica de sangre roja que sobrevive en...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Océano 2020