Gros, Kathleen
Summary: "With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it's time to get serious about her writing and joins the school newspaper. But even with her new friend Freddie cheering her on, becoming a hard-hitting journalist is a lot harder than Jo imagined. That's not all that's tough. Jo and her sisters--Meg, Beth, and Amy--are getting used to a new normal at home, with their dad deployed overseas and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Alley 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC GROVargas, Mel Valentine
Summary: It's the beginning of sophomore year, and Piedad "Piddy" Sanchez is having a hard time adjusting to her new high school. Things don't get any easier when Piddy learns that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn't even know who Yaqui is' never mind what she's done to piss her off. Rumor has it that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 MEDLockhart, E.
Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: Ruth Fitz is surrounded by activism. Her mother is a senator who frequently appears on CNN as a powerful Black voice fighting for legislative social change within the Black community. Her father, a professor of African American history, is a walking encyclopedia, spouting off random dates and events. And her beloved older sister, Virginia, is a natural activist, steadily gaining notoriety...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PINBarnes, 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 BARMarrero, Letisha
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAROda, Tomohito
Summary: "Komi is starting her second year of high school, and she's feeling a bit melancholy that all the good times of the previous year are now behind her. How can anything else compare? But when Komi runs into a girl in her new class with outrageous fashion sense crying in the bathroom, she's able to put all her wonderful friend-making experience to good use and reach out to another person in...
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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 KOMPoston, Ashley
Summary: Return to the geek-tastic world of Starfield fandom with a tale of a superstar and a superfan who swap lives in this sweet and funny companion novel to GEEKERELLA. Movie star Jessica Stone can't go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore--except that she's contractually obligated. She never dreamed she'd be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POSVan Draanen, Wendelin
Summary: In 1936, at seven, Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy's family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose's were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. Ten years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose's family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Especially since Peggy's new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VANLocke, Katherine
Summary: Csilla has felt protected by the Duna river her entire life, and especially during the Holocaust of World War II, but that magic seems to have broken when Communists took control of Hungary. When her parents are killed by the secret police, Csilla's deep feelings of betrayal and disconnection cause her to plan her escape from her unrecognizable homeland. They are posthumously exonerated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCGuillaume, 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 GUIOda, Tomohito
Summary: "The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation. Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's spring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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Summary: "Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: allí permite que sus manos le digan qué cocinar, sigue su intuición y agrega una pequeña pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ACEButcher, Kristin
Summary: No one believes her. After accepting a ride home, Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone that sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded a slut. Even Emma's best friend, Jen, doesn't believe Emma's version of events. In fact, she is angry with Emma because she feels betrayed. After all, she liked Ross first. But when Ross starts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BUTNelson, Colleen
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Delilah "Dizzy" Doucette lives with her dad and brother above their vintage record store, the Vinyl Trap. She's learning how to spin records from her brother's best friend, and she's getting pretty good. But behind her bohemian life, Dizzy and her family have a secret: her mom is the mega-famous singer Georgia Waters. When this secret is revealed to the world, Dizzy's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NELGilman, Laura Anne
Summary: Inadvertently trained by the Devil to see the clues in and manipulations of human desire, sixteen-year-old Izzy is raised to be his left hand and travel circuit through his territory west of the Mississippi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILAveyard, Victoria
Summary: "Ambientada en un reino imaginario, esta novela nos muestra a una sociedad dividida por el color de la sangre. Por un lado está la gente común que tiene sangre roja; por el otro tenemos a aquellos que poseen sangre plateada y que tienen habilidades sobrenaturales. Estos últimos forman una élite cerrada y llena de privilegios. La protagonista es Mare, una chica de sangre roja que sobrevive en...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Océano 2020
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Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENSpider, Star
Summary: "A teen tries to balance the last year of high school, a new romance and looking after her sister with mental health issues. Seventeen-year-old Penny is struggling to balance caring for Jude, her sister with mental health challenges, working part-time to help her mother with money issues and facing her final year of high school. She does not need any distractions. But then she meets Jack. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPIThomas, Angie
Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD FRENCH THOKörner, Miriam
Summary: "Coming-of-age adventure story set in the North featuring a strong female lead, her Indigenous friend, and a cast of diverse dogs all in training for the daring Arctic Quest dog-sledding competition."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KORLake, Nick
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are onboard a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come -- Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAKOda, Tomohito
Summary: "Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's time for the national health exam at Itan High, and the excitement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019
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Summary: The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation. Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Komi's family is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2021