Moss, Marissa
Summary: Starting her own all-girls mathlete team, Talia, who loves math puzzles and code-breaking, is determined to lead her team to victory while trying to break the social code of preteen life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSKessler, Liz.
Summary: Philippa and her fairy godsister, Daisy, are asked by the High Counsel to go on a fantastic journey together to find a missing fairy and preserve the portals that connect the fairy and human realms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KESLowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWHapka, Cathy
Summary: With just a few weeks until the wedding, Aunt Sophie's fiancé, Henry, has gone missing in the jungle. It's up to Olivia and her friends to save him. But the jungle is a dangerous place, and there's no telling what they might encounter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAPJohnston, Aviaq
Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHVelasquez, Crystal
Summary: Jasmine Arroyo loves volunteering with her veterinarian mom at the Kew Gardens Animal Shelter. When Jasmine learns that the shelter will have to turn away new animals unless it can raise funds to expand, she is determined to help in any way she can. The shelter is throwing a fundraiser and the girls decide to create a kids craft corner. They can draw pictures of all the shelter animals to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: Ava and Gen, best friends, are heading off to their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the country. They stay in touch with texts and emails, documenting their weird roommates, self-discovery, coming out, and mental health. As each changes and grows into her new life, will their friendship survive the distance?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNTravis, Lisa
Summary: "Rustle. Crunch. Rustle. Crunch. Something creeps by Jess' window in a Thai hill tribe village. Whatever it is sounds close enough to touch. The wind blows. Pebbles scatter. A shadow slithers th[r]ough the moonlight. What is this mysterious creature doing slipping into the jungle every night? Jess and Nong May are determined to find out."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Pack-n-go Travis 2019Cuevas, 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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CUEMyracle, Lauren
Summary: Winnie's thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family and even herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYRBailey, Susanna
Summary: When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAIThummler, Brenna
Summary: "Marjorie Glatt's life was forever changed the day she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. One of those ghosts was Wendell: a lonely phantom turned Marjorie's best friend. When he and Marjorie are joined by ghost-enthusiast Eliza Duncan, the three friends band together in friendship, bravery, and all things paranormal. Wendell died far too young and now must wander...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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Summary: In their new adventures, Haylee and Comet celebrate what it means to grow and change, and to take another "trip around the sun." Perfectly capturing both the worry and excitement that change brings, this sweet story reminds us of the comfort in friends and the beauty in transformation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARLarson, Kirby.
Summary: Wanting to share a tea party with a new next-door neighbor, a little girl and her doll, Bitty Baby, overcome their trepidation about making new friends with someone who is different by remembering the story about Bitty Baby and a hedgehog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LarRamée, Lisa Moore
Summary: "A friendless girl who has developed a knack for keeping her head down at school resists a red-headed newcomer who wants to make friends, before the two are paired for a class assignment that she hopes will secure her position on the debate team."--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RAMPennypacker, Sara
Summary: What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the town's librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: In 1936, at seven, Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy's family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose's were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. Ten years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose's family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Especially since Peggy's new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VANLorinczi, Balazs
Summary: Margot, a witch, and Elena, a rock musician, are both having a bad day and emotions run high during their first encounter, which could either become the start of a new relationship or curse them both to certain doom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LORDiller, Janelle.
Summary: Nine-year-old Brooke Mason has lived all her life on a ranch in the Colorado Rockies. Now she's headed to Austria with her mom. They get to stay in Schloss Mueller, an ancient Austrian castle. Even better? There's a girl Brooke's age to play with! Eva, the girl who lives in Schloss Mueller, is thrilled to meet Brooke. Unfortunately, the castle's ghost isn't quite so happy!
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorldTrek Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Diller 2013Russell, Rachel Renée.
Summary: Nikki has to hide seven ADORKABLE puppies from two parents, one nosy little sister, an entire middle school, and ... one mean girl out for revenge, Mackenzie Hollister. If anyone can do it, it's Nikki ... but not without some hilarious challenges along the way!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RUSBouchard, Natasha
Summary: "In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green BouchardRussell, Rachel Renee.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to be herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RUSCohen, Tziporah
Summary: Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer. She spends her free time helping Kate's grandmother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD COHYee, Lisa
Summary: Excited for her family's trip to Brazil, Lea is worried about going into the ocean, but when a new friend encourages her to embrace all that Brazil has to offer, fun turns to danger and she must prove to herself, and her brother, that she is brave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2016