Elliott, Kate
Summary: When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: When Maggie learns that her father has a second daughter, Callie, she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with best friend Daija. They are determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood.Daija doesn't want Callie to interfere with their new Braid Girls business-- she needs the money to pay for extra ballet lessons so she can earn a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINCane, 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 CANYoon, Nicola
Summary: "The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015
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Summary: "Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MALWatson, Cristy
Summary: "This book tells a tough but realistic story about teen relationships and sexual assault and how social media plays a role in magnifying its impact. In suburban Vancouver, in a multiracial mixed-income neighbourhood, three 14-year-old friends, a boy and two girls, go to a party organized by the boy's older brother. One of the girls, who comes from a mixed-race Aboriginal/Caucasian family of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2018Collins, Ailynn
Summary: Having just moved to California, Syretia's mother enrolls her and her younger brother, Sean, in the only summer camp available: Mars or Bust, which is focusing on the Mars Curiosity rover due to land soon; Sean is thrilled by all things involving space, but eleven-year-old rock enthusiast Syretia is not really interested, until she discovers that the rover will be studying Martian geology--as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLChase, Paula
Summary: "When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: "After being dumped at the beginning of freshman year, Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to Homecoming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ABTLarson, Hope
Summary: When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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Summary: "Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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Summary: "A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's 'memoir' about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TANRedd, Tara Wilson
Summary: In order to cope with a traumatic breakup and the uncertainty of life after high school, seventeen-year-old Miho decides to complete a triathlon and with the help of her family and friends learns just how far her determination can take her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REDDilloway, Margaret.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney*HYPERION 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DILKeller, Tae
Summary: Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific process leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KELEverett, Sarah
Summary: Jessi is caught between two brothers as the three navigate family, loss, and love over the course of her seventeenth and eighteenth summers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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Summary: "Tossed back into the not-so-familiar fairy-tale world of Never After, Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends set off on another adventure . . . this time in search of Cinderella's glass slipper. Or rather, glass slippers. It turns out the classic story of Cinderella is full of lies-starting with how Cinderella herself is far from the innocent heroine everyone thinks she is. She's manipulative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022