Ko, Lisa
Summary: "Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KOHarrison, Lisi.
Summary: Following Christmas break, the girls are back together, but everything seems different with the addition of Alicia's cousin from Spain who is spending the semester at Octavian Country Day School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARChern, Lina
Summary: "A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHENyman, Risa
Summary: After Rocky's dad dies and he over hears his mom admit that her story about how he died was bogus, his trust unravels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nyman 2020TerKeurst, Lysa
Summary: "Little Seed and Little Fox are facing changes and brand new circumstances and they don't like it one bit. Through this unlikely friendship, children will discover that no matter how new or fearful their circumstances, God is always with them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE TERHarrison, Lisi.
Summary: Five girls in the Clique each face challenges during eighth grade -- from the soccer field to getting the key to the secret room at OCD from a Briarwood boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Co. 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARHarrison, Lisi.
Summary: Friendships are tested when Alicia, a seventh grader at Octavian Country Day School, decides to break away from the exclusive clique led by her best friend to start her own group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HARLouis, Lia
Summary: "Sparkly and charming Natalie Fincher has it all - a handsome new husband, a fixer-upper cottage of her dreams, and the opportunity to tour with the musical she's spent years writing. But when her husband suddenly dies, all her hopes and dreams instantly disappear. Two and a half years later, Natalie is still lost. She works, sleeps (well, as much as the sexually frustrated village foxes will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC LOUBose, Disha
Summary: "A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Summary: Rumi's family has moved to a new town and he is feeling lonely and left out at school because one of the other kids, Asher, is a bully--until Sebastian joins him, drawing in the dirt under the old willow tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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Summary: When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VOBliss, Bryan
Summary: "Toby and Luke are best friends, bound by a goal of leaving their hometown for Luke's wrestling scholarship, but a series of events during their senior year will test their resolve"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLIGraff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen)
Summary: "As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRAMaclear, Kyo
Summary: Friends Julia and Simca belive you can never use too much butter and being a child forever is best, with this in mind the pair decide to create recipes for growing young that will be served to the busy adults around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart Ltd 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACRamée, Lisa Moore
Summary: Eleven-year-old Jenae doesn't have any friends, and she's just fine with that. She's so good at being invisible in school, it's almost like she has a superpower, like her idol, Astrid Dane. Then a new student shows up at school, a boy named Aubrey. The more she tries to push him away, the more he seems determined to be her friend. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RAMSo, Cynthia
Summary: "This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOSakisaka, Io
Summary: "Futaba Yoshioka has encountered her first love again in high school, but he seems different than the boy she once knew. Kou has confessed to Futaba that in junior high he liked her too, but he believes they can never return to those times. Kou continues to act both bursque and sweet. Will a leadership retreat bring them closer together?" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AOSaeed, Aisha
Summary: Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait patiently for it to be done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAESaeed, Aisha
Summary: Twelve-year-old Diana's much-anticipated visit with her best friend, Princess Sakina, turns into an adventure as they face a booby-trapped island, a forbidden visitor, and a demon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAESaeed, Aisha
Summary: When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAEKoz, S. M.
Summary: High school senior Hailey has to choose whether to risk her placement with a great family to pursue a relationship with her foster brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KOZWillard, Eliza.
Summary: Annabel is thrilled to find a red carnation at her locker on Valentine's Day. But when it turns out to be from her best guy friend, Sam, things get messy. Annabel could never like Sam that way, but her best friend, Phoebe, does!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILGraff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen)
Summary: Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRABing, Bo
Summary: When a squirrel finds a pear, he turns it into a violin and fills the forest with a sweet music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starfish Bay Children's Books 2016