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Conduct of life Fiction Family life Fiction JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues) JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Special Needs Middle schools Fiction Pigs Fiction Schools FictionEnglish, Karen.
Summary: Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ENGTownsend, Jessica
Summary: A cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world, but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks: and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC TOWLevine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)
Summary: In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: "Virgil Salinas is shy and misunderstood. Valencia Somerset is clever and stubborn. Kaori Tanaka tells fortunes and reads the stars. Chet "the Bull" Bullens is the biggest bully in the neighborhood. They aren't friends. They don't all go to the same school. But when Chet pulls an unthinkable prank on Virgil and Virgil's pet guinea pig, Gulliver, the lives of these four middle schoolers collide...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: "The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of a drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARRomain, Trevor.
Summary: "No one wants to be picked on, pushed around, threatened, or teased. With practical suggestions and humor, kids will learn to stop bullying in its tracks. Refreshed to reflect the latest research, this updated classic reassures kids that it's not their fault if they are bullied and describes realistic ways to become "Bully-Proof." It shows how bystanders can stand up for others and how to get...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2016
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Summary: Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHMonninger, Joseph
Summary: In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MONLevy, Michelle
Summary: "After his mom kills herself, Tyler shuts out the world--until falling in love with Jordyn helps him find his way toward a hopeful future"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVMarino, Nan.
Summary: "When musical prodigy, Elvis Ruby, completely freezes up on television, he is forced to hide out in the Pinelands of New Jersey and try to find his way back to the music once again with the help of a new friend"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARWillard, Christopher
Summary: "Being a teen is hard enough without anxiety getting in the way. You are changing more than ever before, not just physically, but mentally. And if you suffer from panic attacks, chronic worry, and feelings of isolation, it can be very difficult to meet your goals and succeed. The good news is that there are real, powerful ways that you can take control of your anxiety-and your life! In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, An Imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613 WILde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DELBates, Amy June
Summary: A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BATVan Dijk, Sheri
Summary: "In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk offers tools based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you regulate your emotions so you can build better relationships with your parents, friends, and peers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, and imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 155.5 VANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 158.2 VANBlackstone, Matt.
Summary: "A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAAndrews, Arin.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014
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Summary: After a brush with the law, Ben, a dyed-in-the-wool worrier, must take up a new hobby and chooses knitting, an activity at which he excels but must try to keep secret from his friends, enemies, and sports-obsessed father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC EASHesse, Monica.
Summary: "In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: "When ugly rumors and lies about Alice Franklin start after one of the guys she allegedly slept with at a party dies in a car accident, questions about truth arise in her small town"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATForte, Lauren
Summary: The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORPalacio, R. J.
Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Palacio 2019Hunt, Lynda Mullaly
Summary: Sixth-grader Ally excels at covering the fact that she cannot read, but at her seventh school in as many years she is challenged to admit she needs help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "Armond doesn't want to go to Felicia's birthday party. Parties are noisy, disorganized, and smelly--all things that are hard for a kid with Asperger's. Worst of all is socializing with other kids. But with the support of Felicia and her mom, good friends who know how to help him, he not only gets through the party, but also has fun. When his mom picks him up, Armond admits the party was not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing, Inc. 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CARCain, Susan
Summary: "The monumental bestseller Quiet has been recast in a new edition that empowers introverted kids and teens Susan Cain sparked a worldwide conversation when she published Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. With her inspiring book, she permanently changed the way we see introverts and the way introverts see themselves. The original book focused on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016