Fipps, 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.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Lenny follows Olivia for a school project and learns about her life with her stepfamily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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Summary: "Nobody cuts deeper than family ... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Summary: Yuki Snow wishes she were anywhere but here. She hates Santa Dolores, where her mom and stepdad just moved the family. Her BFF back home, Julio, has already forgotten his promise to stay in touch, and worse, he like likes Yuki's mortal enemy. At her new school, the kids think she's either invisible or a know-it-all nerd. The only friend she's made so far is the shopkeeper at a Japanese antiques...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: A multicultural family celebrates the traditions of two New Years--the Jewish Rosh Hashanah in the autumn, and the Asian Lunar New Year several months later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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Summary: As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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Summary: In rhyming text, when the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma's house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2017
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Summary: The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: "Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways. But is it the work of a human killer . . . or something far darker? She and her younger sister live by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe--which is why it's such a shock when Hope is taken. Desperate to get her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2023
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Summary: "What do you do when you're having an ordinary day, only to discover there's a big gray elephant (named Nathaniel) under the table? Why, you get him to help you wash the car! And the kangaroo (named Abigail) that appears under that same table can help bring in groceries. But when there are penguins in the fridge, the forks and knives are running around, and the salt and ketchup are acting up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text follow the Winks as they guide their thirty-eight mouse children through snacks, baths, stories, and other bedtime preparations, including the last-minute need for a drink of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DIPMartinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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Summary: "La Música exists in many places--in the twang of a guitar, in the beat of a drum, even in the whistling wind and the morning bird's son. She brings color and life wherever she goes, connecting people to a grand harmony. And in the town of Santa Cecilia, she is everywhere. When La Música discovers a boy with longing in his heart and no music in his home, she vows to help him find his passion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction de la Pena 2017Cohen, Leah Hager.
Summary: "A gripping, morally complex novel that asks: How much do grown siblings owe one another? At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct "free school," Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood-a world defined largely by their imaginations and the presence of each other. Decades later, then, when Ava learns that her brother is being held in a county jail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHBliss, Bryan
Summary: "Ever since her father died three years ago, Julie has had a professional wrestler run a constant commentary on her life that only she can hear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLIBerenstain, Stan
Summary: When the Berenstain family wakes up feeling grumpy, a little laughter changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2006
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Summary: After the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Enore Adesuwa moves with her family from Nigeria to America, where she intends to keep a low profile her senior year, but with the help from her sister, new friends, and crush, Enore finds her voice in more ways than one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC IGHFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: "Leslie Anne Greene Carter is the last original wife among her husband's group of cronies. They've all traded in for younger... blonder... more enhanced models. But she is proud of her status and the longevity of her marriage. Sure the spark isn't quite there the way it once was. And it would be nicer if her husband paid a bit more attention to her desires but there's something to be said for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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Summary: Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CABMoriarty, Jaclyn
Summary: Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023