Wang, Andrea
Summary: "A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WANWang, Andrea
Summary: Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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Summary: "When her sister, Rose, disappeared, seventeen-year-old Emmy lost a part of herself. Everyone else seems convinced she ran away and will reappear when she's ready, but Emmy isn't so sure. That doesn't make sense for the Rose she knew: effervescent, caring, and strong-willed. So Emmy returns to their Ohio hometown for a summer, determined to uncover clues that can lead her back to Rose once and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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Summary: Growing up in 1970s Ohio, Mexican American brothers Pedro and Daniel, who are not like other boys, manage an abusive home life, school, coming out, first loves, first jobs, and the AIDS epidemic, leaning on each other always and forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC EREJungkunz, Mariel
Summary: It's eleven days after Christmas and Lucía yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating Día de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three Kings to her new home in the frosty Midwest? This picture book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUNDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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Summary: Told in their alternating perspectves, nerdy Tez and daredevil Corryn try to survive one terrifying season at a haunted summer camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: After her brother's suicide, Neely works as a tour guide in the caverns where she meets beautiful, strong, confident Mila, but when a drug-fueled midnight staff party results in Mila's brutal murder, Neely must figure out who killed her - and face the possibility it might've been her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCGStamper, Phil
Summary: "Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school's first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can't be said about everyone in their small town of Barton Springs, Ohio. When Jake's dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. A few people are even concerned the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STAMcGinnis, Mindy
Summary: Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCGHaddix, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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Summary: After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: Danielle Reed and her family have just moved to Sandusky, Ohio. But there's something about their new home that makes her feel uneasy. When she finds a boarded-up door in one of the upstairs bedrooms, she wonders why it is there-- and where it could possibly lead. Soon, she finds that the door has been hidden for a reason. It leads to a place where ogres are taking over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioCraft Pub. 2002