Summary: Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PG-13Leth, Kate
Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETSummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREShrum, Brianna R.
Summary: "Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn't know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs is the right tutor. Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. But a flunking grade in US History is threatening her acceptance to her dream school. All she needs is the right tutor. Margo agrees to help Abbie get her history grade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHRSummary: On the verge of turning 15, Georgia sets her sights on Robbie, the gorgeous new guy at school who plays bass for the Stiff Dylans. Sadly, he is already dating her evil archrival: blonde, perfect Lindsay. With her flamboyantly dressed cat Angus and her girl posse, the Ace Gang, by her side, Georgia sets her plan in motion to nab the boyfriend of her dreams, and have the best birthday party ever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANGGerster, Michelle
Summary: "A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GERDave, Laura
Summary: A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVStevenson, Noelle
Summary: When April takes it upon herself to restore a friendship that has fallen apart, will she be in over her head as her above water friendships take a hit? After the Lumberjanes decide to learn about the mysterious Seafarin Karen thing take a turn for the strange. Between shapeshifters and strange portals causing a storm to suddenly hit the camp, this is one badge that the Lumberjanes are going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STEBrown, Alex
Summary: Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott's abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since. The seventeen-year-old spends her days stage managing the school play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over her best friend, Veronica, and failing one too many pop quizzes. She's never been sad that her father left, but she knows something is... missing. When her school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROSteinkellner, Emma
Summary: "Moth Hush is back! Moth is starting to settle into her heritage and powers, but life at school continues to be rough. Even her best friend, Charlie, doesn't entirely understand what it's like for her to always be the one who gets mocked, and things only get worse when Moth's mom starts dating one of the dorkiest teachers in the school! Then Moth gets hold of a mysterious charm that can unleash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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Summary: "With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it's time to get serious about her writing and joins the school newspaper. But even with her new friend Freddie cheering her on, becoming a hard-hitting journalist is a lot harder than Jo imagined. That's not all that's tough. Jo and her sisters--Meg, Beth, and Amy--are getting used to a new normal at home, with their dad deployed overseas and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Alley 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC GROMcCoola, Marika
Summary: "Most children think twice before braving a haunted wood filled with terrifying beasties to match wits with a witch, but not Masha. Her beloved grandma taught her many things: that stories are useful, that magic is fickle, that nothing is too difficult ortoo dirty to clean. The fearsome witch of folklore needs an assistant, and Masha needs an adventure. She may be clever enough to enter Baba...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCCStevenson, Noelle
Summary: "The mystery of history! Jen just wants a normal lesson with her cabin, teaching Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley the basic survival skills needed without any supernatural intervention. But when a blizzard hits camp, Jen finds herself separated from the girls and in more trouble than ever... until a mysterious taxidermist swoops in to save the day. Who is she and what is her relationship to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC STECopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMQuinn, Anna
Summary: "A moving, lyrical, melancholy, and spiritual novel by the acclaimed author of The Night Child, in which Sister Angeline, unwillingly sent to a radical convent and confronting her tragic past, asks the deep question, follow your heart or follow the rules? After surviving a tragedy that killed her entire family, sixteen-year-old Meg joins a cloistered convent, believing it is her life's work to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICharaipotra, Sona
Summary: "She may be a California farm girl, but seventeen-year-old Maya's vision board is all about Fashion and Fierce--the New York City women's magazine she's been reading since she was ten. As the oldest daughter of Punjabi garlic farmers, though, Maya's path is set, and it's off to Cow camp for the summer. When she lands in the New York City area, Maya learns that her cousin's girlfriend works at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHAAllison, John
Summary: Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, zpersonal experimentation,y holiday balls, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of zacademia,y they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIASummary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHOTobin, Paul
Summary: "Kirby is about to start a new school with three talking primates in tow. Unlike other students, Kirby Steinberg begins her time at Forest Edge school with a speech to the entire student body introducing her unusual entourage that's composed of three talking simians: eggheaded orangutan Chuck; Go-Go the gorilla, who is hungry and tired in equal measure; and spider monkey Knobby, who has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TOBAllison, John
Summary: "Fast friends Susan, Daisy, and Esther continue their second year at Sheffield University and these are formative times. Indeed. Education and looking ahead to the future isn't all that college holds in store for these ladies -- grocery store protests, family reunions, and even an MMORPG wedding are all on the semester's docket."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIASummary: Yuu Koito thought love would be something amazing and magical, but when a male friend asks her to date, she feels nothing. She doesn't even know how to respond until she overhears the student council president of her new high school, Touko Nanami, turning down a similar request. With Touko's help, Yuu manages to let her friend down gracefully, but then Touko confesses that she, herself, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME BLOCane, Tina
Summary: "Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CANVan Draanen, Wendelin
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 VANMcGuire, Seanan
Summary: "Gwen Stacy, the former Spider-Woman of Earth-65, makes her way to the Marvel Universe! With a cloud of infamy hanging over her head in her home dimension, Gwen now travels to the Prime Marvel Universe for super hero action ... and school?! The newest student at ESU is about to get a crash course in multiversity as she splits her time between the world she loves and the world she's just getting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GHOSummary: Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011