Kuyatt, Meg Eden
Summary: Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KUYWenzel, Brendan
Summary: Told in rhyming verse, a stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is, surrounded by grass, dirt, and water, an unchanging certainty in the world. To some animals it's a pebble, To others it's a hill, and to others, a home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2019
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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 SPANISHFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: Yasmin opted to be the director of her school play, but she is finding it difficult to keep the actors happy and the play moving forward--until she finally asserts her authority and makes the changes necessary to save the play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARSchwartz, Leanne
Summary: "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa as a haven for his followers, but to keep the devil at bay, the church sends a child sacrifice to hell's entrance every season--often poor or plain girls just like Alesta. With a head full of ideas for inventions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SCHThao, Dustin
Summary: Julie Clarke, de diecisiete años, tiene todo su futuro planeado: marcharse de su pequeño pueblo junto a su novio, Sam, ir a la universidad en la ciudad, pasar un verano en Japón. Pero entonces Sam muere. Y todo cambia. Desesperada por escucharle una vez más, Julie llama al móvil de Sam para escuchar la grabación de su buzón de voz. Y Sam coge el teléfono.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones Kiwiw 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH THASáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEEngle, 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 ENGMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENBrown, Peter
Summary: "Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters...
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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 BROGreenawalt, Kelly
Summary: In rhyming text, Princess Truly uses her strength and her magical curls to help her friends, rescue her dog from a tire swing, and win a prize at the carnival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GRERuzzier, Sergio
Summary: Rather than fulfill the expectations of his persistent companion, an animal chooses to live as himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUZCoombs, Amelia Diane
Summary: Florie's OCD and her mother's worrying have kept her from a lot of things, like having an after-school job and getting her driver's license. Now she's taking a gap year after high school, and her best friend Kacey is headed to college in Portland in the fall. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast's live show in California gives her the opportunity leave small-town Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE VANEdwards, Samantha
Summary: When Jacob is born, Samantha is excited to have a little brother, but Jacob quickly grows into a loud, chaotic, and seemingly unstoppable force. His diagnosis with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is shared by millions of kids, so why does Samantha's unruly homelife feel so uniquely difficult? As Samantha struggles to understand and survive Jacob's daily shenanigans, shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 EDWFischer, Nancy Richardson
Summary: An exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works to fulfill everyone else's needs. She's certain that her mom's bitterness and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ink Yard Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FISCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMLaure, Estelle
Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUBowman, Akemi Dawn
Summary: Ten months ago Nami escaped Ophelia and the Courts of Infinity, and found a sort of refuge in the Borderlands; she has spent her days training her body and mind so that when the time comes she will be able to navigate Infinity and rescue her captured friends, and now she has made a breakthrough, gaining the ability to enter minds without permission--the answers she needs are in Prince Caelan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWMatson, Morgan
Summary: Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATShusterman, Neal.
Summary: A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SHUWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "Jessie and Benny are participating in the Great Greenfield Bake-Off, a local baking competition for kids. But ingredients get mixed up during the competition and then the power goes out. Is someone trying to put an end to the contest?"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018