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Alienation (Social psychology) Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Juvenile fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Identity (Psychology) Fiction Magic Juvenile fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Self-confidence Juvenile fiction Students Juvenile fiction Students, Foreign Students, Foreign FictionHarrison, Lisi.
Summary: Following Christmas break, the girls are back together, but everything seems different with the addition of Alicia's cousin from Spain who is spending the semester at Octavian Country Day School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARBellacera, Carole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELTan, Shaun
Summary: "When a foreign exchange student comes to live with a typical suburban family, he brings with him a boundless sense of curiosity--and a stream of unexpected questions (which his hosts are never quite sure how to answer). But when the moment comes to say good-bye, a beautiful surprise awaits, and a gift the family will never forget"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TANFitzpatrick, Lydia
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world--the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions--is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: Pygmy--a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated killer, in this satire of American xenophobia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALYang, Kelly
Summary: "They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YANKane, Andrea
Summary: Lauren Pennington is celebrating her junior year abroad when life comes to a screeching halt. At Munich's Hofbrühaus, she engages in an innocent flirtation with a charming stranger for the length of a drink. Drink finished, Lauren leaves--only to be snatched from the streets and thrown into an unmarked van. In a globe-spanning chase, from the beer halls of Germany, to the tech gardens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bonnie Meadow Publishing LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GORMengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GORMengestu, Dinaw
Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MENMontague, 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