Alessandri, 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 ALEBrown, Jennifer
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BROYang, Kelly
Summary: The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "¡Nate el grande vive a tope ! Cuando le piden a Nate que se haga amigo de un nuevo alumno, se muestra más que dispuesto...hasta que lo conoce. ¿Tendrá Nate que aguantar a un aguafiestas? ¿O su nuevo compañero será el alma de la fiesta?"-- Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RBA / Lectorum 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEIMontague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONErskine, Kathryn.
Summary: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERSPalacio, R. J.
Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espan̋ol 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: J468 PAL SPANISHMakino, Aoi
Summary: After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NOTErskine, Kathryn.
Summary: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERSSheinmel, Courtney
Summary: Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she is perfect for the role, so she rehearses her lines until she know the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SHERowling, J. K.
Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 RowPatterson, James
Summary: Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATStone, Tamara Ireland.
Summary: Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOOshiro, Mark
Summary: "After eleven-year-old David Bravo wishes for a do-over of a disastrous day of middle school, he and a shapeshifting spirit guide try to right a wrong in his past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: Starting her own all-girls mathlete team, Talia, who loves math puzzles and code-breaking, is determined to lead her team to victory while trying to break the social code of preteen life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "Warning : Big Nate is back, and the whole school's on high alert. Can drama queen Dee Dee compete with Nate's down-and-dirty gossip gathering? Will Mrs. Godfrey lighten up when she learns that she and Nate share a common obsession? And what happens after Coach John wanders into the flight path of a Nate-powered projectile? In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, the self-styled King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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Summary: "Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MCCIloh, Candice
Summary: Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. When a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: "When an Indian American boy starts school in a new classroom, one child can't pronounce his name properly. It stings, but his parents remind him that his name shows how special he is. With lush illustrations by Sandhya Prabhat, award-winning author Supriya Kelkar writes a stunning tribute to the thing that introduces us to the world -- our names -- reminding readers of the beauty in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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Summary: Cuando tanto Nate Wright como el matón Randy Betancourt se enamoran de Ruby, los altercados entre los dos resultan en sesiones de asesoramiento de pares que conducen a la amistad y a convertirse en compañeros de equipo en el equipo de frisbee Mud Bowl definitivo de la escuela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RBA Lectorum 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEIRowling, J. K.
Summary: After a terrible summer with the Dursleys, Harry is ready to begin the fourth course of study at Hogwarts, the famous school of magic and sorcery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Spanish J468 RowAngleberger, Tom.
Summary: After several Origami Yoda-related incidences, Dwight is suspended for being a troublemaker and Yoda asks Tommy and Kellen to save Dwight by creating a case file that proves Dwight is an asset to Ralph McQuarrie Middle School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2011