Jortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORIbura, K.
Summary: "Nobody expected a tiny little virus to change the whole world in such a big way, especially not Shayla, Liam, Ai, and Ben. But when school closes to keep everyone safe, their lives turn upside down. It is one thing to learn that the outside world isn't safe, but why does it seem that the virus is causing trouble inside their homes too?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: "A winter's day is transformed from bleak to beautiful by warm friendship and a new perspective in a gentle story that encourages the appreciation and celebration of cozy pleasures and quiet joys"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: A group of diverse kids turn to the mythical monsters from their respective cultures to help them save the only home they have ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMCuevas, Mayra
Summary: Neither Malena nor Ruby expected to be leaders of their high school's dress code rebellion. Meanwhile, the girls have to face their own insecurities and biases, as well as the ups and downs of their newfound friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community plan a surprise block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 2004
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Summary: When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVELanda, Norbert.
Summary: Big Bear, always alone, likes that he can slurp his soup, burp, and make other noises, not realizing that the rabbits across the river think the loud noises and odors are coming from a monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2011
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Summary: Quiet Amanda Mays had the time of her life at summer camp. She made a ton of new friends, including spunky Allie. She even (accidentally) let everyone think she had a boyfriend back home. What harm could it do? Alot--- because now Allie is moving to Amanda's town! But Amanda isn't the same girl she was at camp. She doesn't have a boyfriend, she's not very outgoing, and she knows that Allie will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BERCardenas, Mauro Javier
Summary: "Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends-an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright-who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARMarshall, Laura (Laura J.)
Summary: "Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston's dead. Isn't she? 1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior year, Maria seems to be everything Louise's other friends aren't. Authentic. Funny. Brash. Within just a few days, Maria and Louise are on their way to becoming fast friends. 2016. Louise receives a heart-stopping email:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGoodluck, Laurel
Summary: Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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Summary: "A young girl and her neighbor bond over a love of gardening"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Snyder 2017Snyder, Laurel
Summary: Two girls who feel alone and lost bond over their shared emotions during the summer but find their friendship tested when the realities of their home lives intrude once more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SNYKnetzger, Laura
Summary: Follows two bug friends, Stag-B and Rhino-B, as they explore their world and share adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2021
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Summary: Once the best of friends until a terrible secret tore them apart, a group of friends are suddenly brought back together under tragic circumstances and wonder if their long-ago lie is the reason for their troubles today and if someone is out to destroy them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIPSilverman, Laura
Summary: When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Silverman 2017Buller, Laura
Summary: When Rapunzel tells her friends that she needs some time alone, they decide to build a surprise tree house for her in the garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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Summary: When a stream prevents them from visiting the gardens that they love, the Disney princesses draw on each other's talents and work together to find a solution to the problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2018
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Summary: After his friends' reports about bears, Little Penguin is anxious about a new polar bear friend's visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: Garden talent and fashion trendsetter Rosetta is thrilled to be asked to design a dress for the fairy fashion show, but when she loses her sense of style, she must ask her less fashionable friends for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: "Pig makes art. Cat does not like the art. Will Cat have a change of heart?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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Summary: A century and a half after cloned dinosaurs forced humans to move into underground compounds, Sky discovers a clue to the whereabouts of her long-missing father and ventures above ground on a quest that has the potential to save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016