Sinclair, Phoebe
Summary: For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SINRice, Luanne
Summary: Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION RICDarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Feeling guilty over the house fire she might have started, Farah Hajjar channels her energy into starting a creative writing club at the Magnet Academy where she is a new sixth-grader. Includes writing prompts and glossaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DARWebber, Katherine
Summary: As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents expectations, and there she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems--because Reiko has a secret: in her mind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEBSinclair, Phoebe
Summary: "For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SINNorthrop, Michael.
Summary: When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" before learning the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Summary: Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDBoorman, Kate A.
Summary: Four girls from a defunct thrill-seeking group descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a subterranean lake that local legends claim has the power to change things for those who can confront their deepest fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOOKenneally, Miranda.
Summary: To honor her dead boyfriend and cope with her grief and guilt, college student Annie trains for a marathon with athletic Jeremiah, who flirts with Annie on the trails and makes her feel alive and happy and guilty all at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KENPercival, Tom
Summary: After Finn tells his grandmother a fib, his lies continue to build up which makes Finn feel horrible until he builds up the courage to come clean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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Summary: Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WESBillingsley, Franny
Summary: In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BILHautman, Pete
Summary: "For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAUAllen, Crystal
Summary: Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends -- and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event -- one he'd promised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALLHautman, Pete
Summary: For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Max struggles with his ADHD and making mistakes, so when a mistake leaves one friend in a coma and another shutting him out, Max resolves to find out what really happened that night.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CONHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Haddix 2019Lyga, Barry
Summary: Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Lyga 2017Maddox, Jake
Summary: Twelve-year-old Addison Jones would love to try out for the track team, and she knows that she is faster than the other girls, but her single mom is working two jobs and every day after school Addison has to take care of her little brother--without telling her mom Addison and her best friend, Sofia, work out a plan that will allow her to run, but soon the strain and guilt of lying to her mother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADHenkes, Kevin.
Summary: Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HENKenneally, Miranda.
Summary: From the bestselling author of Catching Jordan comes a brand new contemporary YA you won't forget. The finish line is only the beginning... Annie hates running. No matter how far she jogs, she can't escape the guilt that if she hadn't broken up with Kyle, he might still be alive. So to honor his memory, she starts preparing for the marathon he intended to race. But the training is even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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Flake, Sharon G.
Summary: Paralyzed by guilt, eleven-year-old John Henry must come to terms with the events surrounding his Ma's near drowning and with the help of his twin sister Hattie, learn to embrace life again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLACreech, Sharon.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CREVinuesa, Victoria
Summary: Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Before her next surgery, Mia wants to meet the woman who gave her away once and for all. Kyle has always been the life of the party...that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Since then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2024