Filter By Subjects
Amusement parks Fiction Amusement parks Juvenile fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) Juvenile fiction Lesbians Fiction Lesbians Juvenile fiction Middle school students Fiction Middle school students Juvenile fiction Vacations Fiction Vacations Juvenile fictionFilter By Subjects
Amusement parks Fiction Amusement parks Juvenile fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) Juvenile fiction Lesbians Fiction Lesbians Juvenile fiction Middle school students Fiction Middle school students Juvenile fiction Vacations Fiction Vacations Juvenile fictionCard, Maisy
Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Card 2020Mukherjee, Neel
Summary: What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Five characters in very different circumstances-- from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-- find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAYGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Angel-Ajani, Asale
Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGArlow, Jake Maia
Summary: "Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Noel, Katharine
Summary: "Katharine Noel--the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of Halfway House--returns with a funny, wise, and moving second novel about the bond between two sisters whose stable lives are suddenly uprooted. Claire Hood has never had a typical family. When she was nine, her father fell in love with a married woman, and the two households agreed to live under one roof. Nicknamed "the Naked...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOEShreve, Anita
Summary: "In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shreve 2017Abdel Gawad, Aisha
Summary: "A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan. It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. On the precipice of adulthood, they plan to embark on a summer of teenage...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023