Cisneros, Sandra.
Summary: Frustrated by a life in the slums of Chicago, Esperanza tries to escape her neighborhood and invent her own future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audiobooks 2005
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Summary: The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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Summary: Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Summary: "Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she's not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARWittenborn, Dirk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002
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Summary: It's 1983, and 17-year-old Edward Zanni wants to study acting at Juilliard, but his newly remarried father--who earns too much for Edward to claim scholarship money--refuses to pay. So, Edward enlists the aid of his creative theater pals to swindle the money from his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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Summary: Still reeling from the death of his older brother, a sixteen-year-old track star befriends a street-fighting rebel and together they search for redemption amidst the social changes of 1968.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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Summary: "Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners"—hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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Summary: "Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student intake part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "From the author of the critically acclaimed "lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations" (Harper's Bazaar) The Regulars; comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable bucket list adventure. Twenty-five-old Lacey Whitman is blindsided when she's diagnosed with the BCRA1 gene mutation:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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Summary: "Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes. Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWCarr, Brian Allen
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019