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 SPANISHThao, 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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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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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 GREVandever, Daniel W.
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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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 CAMMatson, 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 MATSánchez, Erika L.
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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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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORGratz, Alan
Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAStead, Philip Christian
Summary: Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day, he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests. -- From book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2010
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Summary: Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOBarnes, Jennifer Lynn
Summary: Ella viene de la nada. Avery tiene un plan: pasar desapercibida, trabajar duro para aspirar a un futuro mejor. Entonces un excéntrico multimillonario fallece y le deja casi toda su fortuna. Y nadie, tampoco Avery, sabe por qué. Ellos lo tenían todo. Ahora tiene que mudarse a la mansión que ha heredado, que está llena de secretos y códigos, y en la que residen los parientes del fallecido: una...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BARGriffith, Evan
Summary: "Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: Twins Raquel and Lucinda Mendoza used to be inseparable, but since their parents divorced Raquel has become bossy and obsessive, while Lucinda has immersed herself in her ice skating lessons, and the pandemic and its enforced isolation has only made things worse; but then they are sent to their father's ranch in central California and while Raquel thinks that this is a chance to get their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TORGuillaume, Jenna
Summary: The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing over vacation is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's already shaky confidence. And especially not when her best friend starts flirting with the boy she's always loved. But Maisie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GUIRowling, 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 RowForbes, Lani
Summary: "Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer--until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As 'Black Cat Whitfield,' adopted daughter of an outlaw, she's wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn't the destiny she imagined--especially as one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORCondie, Allyson Braithwaite
Summary: Seeking to avenge the murder of her true love while on a dredge ship searching for gold, fifteen-year-old captain Poe Blythe becomes the architect of new defenses designed to destroy her enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CONPeirce, Lincoln
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