DuBois, Caroline Brooks
Summary: After a devastating tornado tears apart her home, thirteen-year-old Quinn struggles to find stability and return to who she was before, finding she has to rebuild herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUBBrunskill, Amelia
Summary: A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicion and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LAIAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEHood, Susan
Summary: In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In this prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he became the jazz music worshiping, basketball star his sons look up to. A novel in verse with all the impact and rhythm readers have come to expect from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC ALESpinelli, Eileen
Summary: Still grieving for her father, twelve-year-old Birdie struggles to adjust to many changes, including when her grandmother, her mother, and her best friends all begin dating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPIBowling, Dusti
Summary: A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REY (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Fipps, Lisa
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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Summary: Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARAGow, Robin
Summary: Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOWBaldwin, Cindy
Summary: Penny Rooney is stumped when she's given the assignment to write a poem about herself. She thinks of herself as half of a whole with her best friend, Cricket--until shes blindsided by the news that Crickets family is moving away in a matter of weeks. Then Penny and her sister see something impossible in the creek behind their house: a dolphin. Penny feels an immediate connection with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A little cat named Patches manages to push out a window screen and leave her house, chasing a falling leaf, and sets out to find a special place to call her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction AlexanderBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUREngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGLuciani, Brigitte
Summary: The reader is asked to guess what Roxanne must leave behind (ball, umbrella, book, turtle, or baby) as she tries various means of transportation to get to the beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J468 LUC SPANISHWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEARaúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILCronin, Doreen.
Summary: While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lectorum 2007
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH CROAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEBehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021