Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: FIC AIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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[2022]., Juvenile, Quill Tree Books Call No: FIC CIS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Best friends and neighbors Isaac and Marco are opposite in looks--Isaac is tall and Marco is short--and in abilities--Isaac excels at basketball, while Marco excels at schoolwork. However, that doesn't stop the sixth graders from having each other's back and helping each other get better. Isaac wants to finally take his schoolwork seriously while Marco wants to make the basketball team to make his dad proud of him. As they each work through difficulties at home and at school, the pair learn important lessons in growing up.
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c2011., Akashic Books Call No: Sports FIC Watson Genre: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Depicts sixteen-year-old Billy Dyer as he struggles to join the small-town football team whose tradition of brutal training resembles that of the ancient Spartans. However, in the course of this situation, he discovers that his father has been blackmailed into working with Blake Rainey, the town's most powerful and wealthy man, in a land-acquisition scheme. When Rainey offers Billy a Faustian deal to rejoin the football team, Billy must accept the consequences of his choice.
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By Walton, Will2018., Adolescent, Push Call No: Teen Fiction FIC WAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
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By Walton, Will2018, Adolescent, PUSH, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: REALISTIC F WAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
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By Walton, Will2018., Adolescent, PUSH Call No: Young Adult FIC WAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
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2019., Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Historical Fic Mathieu Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1986, siblings Elena and Joaquin Finney struggle with their manipulative, alcoholic mother and look for any way to escape Mariposa Island. Elena starts babysitting for a visiting family and sneaking off with a new boyfriend while Joaquin dreams of finding his estranged father in California. Meanwhile, their mother reflects on life in the 1950s as the daughter of wealthy white Cubans who sent her to the United States during the Cuban revolution where she experienced the turmoil of being an outcast immigrant in Texas. After Joaquin makes a startling discovery, the lies and secrets that have defined their family come to light.
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By Smyth, Ciara[2021]., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F SMY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Aideen has plenty of problems she can't solve. But when she stumbles upon overachiever Meabh Kowalska having a full-blown meltdown, she sees one that she can actually fix. Meabh is desperate to escape her crushing pile of extracurriculars. Aideen volunteers to help--by pushing her down the stairs. Problem? Solved. Meabh's sprained ankle is the perfect excuse to ditch her overwhelming schedule. But when one of their classmates learns about their little scheme, more 'clients' start asking for Aideen's 'help'--kicking off a semester of traded favors, ill-advised hijinks, and even an unexpected chance at love. Fixing other people's problems won't fix her own. But it might be the push Aideen needs to start"--From the publisher's web site.
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By Smyth, Ciara[2021]., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Realistic Fic Smyth Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: With her home life spinning out of control, Irish teen Aideen turns to solving other peoples' problems when she discovers the principal's daughter having a bathroom meltdown due to burnout. Injuring the girl's ankle solves the issue, but creates a whole new set of them for Aideen when a classmate witnesses the event and also asks for her help. Soon Aideen is enlisted to help other kids with their conundrums, and learns that she isn't the only one with problems too big to solve on her own.
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2015., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC KONIGSBERG Edition: 1st ed., June 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
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2018., Adolescent, Candlewick Call No: Young adult FIC GARNER Edition: 1st ed. 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jules never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always been more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Her life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. A simple quest to find a baby picture for the senior yearbook leads to the discovery that for most of the first two years of her life, Jules lived in foster care. As Jules sets out to learn the truth about her past, what she finds is a family who loved her as their own and hoped to adopt her. Even a now-adult foster brother is overjoyed to see his sister again. When the divide between Jules and her biological mother widens, Jules finds herself on the brink of losing everything."--Provided by publisher.
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By Zarr, Sara[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: REALISTIC F ZAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Receiving a mysterious guitar the night before she leaves the city to live with her mom and new stepdad, Lou believes that if she learns how to play it, she can bring a piece of her old life home.
