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Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPGreen, Holly
Summary: Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and she is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GREJohnson, Abigail
Summary: A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another. Brooke's only solace remains the ice-skating rink, where she works but no longer lets herself dream about a future skating professionally.When Brooke encounters Calvin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION JOHAldredge, Betsy
Summary: New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she’s surrounded by both when she’s snowed in at her grandmother’s home in a small Texas town. Missing latkes and reliable Wi-Fi, Hannah wanders into an old deli where she meets the only other Jewish teen around: Noah, who happens to be equal parts adorable and full of annoying, over the top festival of lights spirit that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALDSolomon, Dan
Summary: It's been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he's lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. At last, he feels like his luck might be changing. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest Wendy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOLMallery, Susan.
Summary: Skye Titan's wealthy father thinks he can still dictate his daughter's choice in men. Now widowed and a single mother, Skye isn't the yes-girl she once was. Especially since the love of her life is back in Texas after eight long years. He won't like the answers to the questions he's asking. About why she left him at the altar. And about her eight-year-old daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2009
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Summary: "After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she's finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows. Devastated and anxious for the summer to go by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOScofield, Sandra Jean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOLai, Thanhha
Summary: A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAIThomas, Jodi
Summary: "Jillian James has never had a place she could call home. so when she lands in the sleepy Texas town of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay -- except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family. Connor Larady is desperate: eh's a singel dad, and his grandmother, Eugenia, has Alzheimer's. He's the only one around to care for her,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION THOBrown, Carolyn
Summary: "Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy ... With nothing to lose and no one at home, the girlfriends impulsively accept an unexpected offer from their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMathieu, Jennifer
Summary: In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATWiggs, Susan.
Summary: In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIGGreen, Tim
Summary: Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GRECompton, Johnny
Summary: "A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMSneed, Madeline Kay
Summary: Emmy is West Texas through and through: she loves the land, she loves her hometown, she loves football, both professional and her town's high school team, the 'Stangs. She also knows she's a lesbian, and in her Southern Baptist evangelical community, that's going to be an issue, both for Emmy and her amicably separated parents, Lucy and Steve. After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNEBerg, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC Berg,Brown, Sandra
Summary: "Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn't let rules get in his way--in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology. That's why he's the first person Caroline King--who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams--asks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Brown 2010Brown, Sandra
Summary: Dodge Hanley teams up with a local sheriff to investigate a man accused of harassing a young girl--who happens to be the daughter of Dodge's former love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M BROBrown, Sandra
Summary: Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house, hitting a work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Brown 2010Berg, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERMoyer, Marsha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYPeschke, M. (Marci)
Summary: Kylie Jean Carter has been waiting for three years to become a Little Dazzler--a junior cheerleader for the high school's Dancing Dazzlers--so she can cheer for her brother's high school football team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PESTerciero, Rey
Summary: "Lucia Castillo dreams of being a hero like her grandfather. But to the people in their Texas town, he was just a strange old man who dressed up as a knight and claimed to save the world from monsters only he could see. Now years later, when Lucia and her best friend--and trusty squire--Sandro discover the town mayor is secretly a shapeshifting beast of Mexican lore, her parents think she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023