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2020., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Realistic Fic Richards Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Believing her mother dead from a car accident, sixteen-year-old Johanna is being raised by her grandparents in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her father suddenly corresponds after being gone since she was a baby, revealing in a letter that her mother died of a gunshot wound inflicted by Johanna after she found an unsecured gun in their home when she was a toddler. The revelation sends Johanna into an emotional tailspin, from which she'll have to learn to forgive herself and those who lied to her.
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2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Realistic Fic Courtney Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.
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2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Chao Edition: First Simon Pulse paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
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2019., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Realistic FIC Flores-Scott Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Some hard hits take Teodoro "T" Avila down the summer before his senior year, not least of which being his beloved older brother Manny returning from tour in Iraq with severe PTSD. Desperate to save Manny from himself and to heal his family, T's fiery sister, Xochitl, tricks her brothers into going on a road trip with one another.
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2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic Fic Milanes Edition: First Simon Pulse paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Though she is really a sixteen-year-old Florida teen, Analee finds herself more comfortable as her online role-playing persona, Kiri, the night elf hunter in her favorite game, with her online partner Xolkar, a teen boy named Harris whom she has never met in person. She hides from her real-life problems and the weird thoughts in her head, until she becomes lab partners with the school heartthrob, Seb Matias. He asks her to pose as his girlfriend to make his ex jealous and Analee agrees, but the more she comes out of her shell, the more she wonders if she's making a big mistake.
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2023., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Realistic Fic Kemp Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: With the help of her cousin and their friends, Danna scours the city, searching for her grandfather's favorite foods and hoping the remembered flavors will bring back his memories.
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By Malone, Jen2020., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Realistic Fic Malone Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After the liver disease she was born with flares up unexpectedly, roller derby star Amelia, eighteen, must come to terms with the brevity of life while hoping for an organ transplant.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Turner Publishing Company Call No: Realistic Fic Moses Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In Crystal Springs, Louisiana, when sixteen-year-old James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead, he tries to run the household by himself, hiding his mother's death from the authorities, caring for his little brother, and scrounging for food until things become increasingly desperate.
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2019., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Realistic FIC Pan Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: After her mother's suicide, fifteen-year-old Leigh travels to Taiwan where she will finally meet the grandparents she never knew and come to terms with her mother's death. As she immerses herself the culture, she finds signs and hidden meanings all around her, and begins to believe that her mother has been reincarnated as a giant red bird.
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By Méndez, Matt2020., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Realistic Fic Mendez Edition: First Atheneum paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In El Paso, Fabi, her son Juan, and his best friend JD each have their own struggles as they deal with the injustices of being brown and poor in Texas. After a mistake at a party in a wealthy neighborhood, Juan and JD find themselves on the run, and decide to search out answers to who Juan's father really is. Fabi wants to stop them, but she is also struggling with the secrets of her own family.
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2019., Vintage Books Call No: Realistic FIC Weir Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Essie is the youngest daughter on a reality show about a religious family of the "fire-and-brimstone" variety. She has grown up in front of the cameras. When her family discovers that she is pregnant, they decide to marry her off immediately in a show that will send ratings through the roof. Essie pushes for Roarke from her school's baseball team, and he agrees--though he is hiding a secret of his own. And Essie begins to wonder if she can trust her secret to anyone, and what she would give up for her own freedom.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Knopf Call No: Realistic FIC Zusak Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Ember Call No: Mystery FIC Thomas Edition: First Ember edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A mysterious series of deaths involving the local high school's cheerleaders leaves the community of Sunnybrook in deep mourning. Five years after the cheerleading squad was disbanded, too grieved to be reminded of the tragic losses, the community has decided it's time to honor the young women whose lives were cut short. Monica, whose older sister was one of victims, would rather leave the past in the past, but secrets won't stay hidden forever, and slowly Monica begins to see there's much more to the tragedy than she ever imagined.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Harper Teen Call No: Realistic Fic Acevedo Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.
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2020., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Diaz Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: Realistic Fic Silverstein Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom struggles with her recent chronic illness diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges in middle school. Ricky angrily copes by cursing, skipping school, and lying to her parents. Then she meets Oliver, a childhood cancer survivor who understands being sick. Ricky comes to learn that school just might have something to teach her after all, and having a friend alongside her helps as well.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: Realistic Fic Khorram Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After his trip to Iran, Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted: he's getting along with his dad, Sohrab is just a Skype call away, he has a boyfriend, he's on the varsity soccer team, and he has an internship at his favorite tea shop. But then things start to fall apart. His grandmothers visit and Darius can't tell if they like him. The internship isn't going as well as he had hoped, Sohrab isn't answering his calls, and his father's away all the time on business. And then there's his boyfriend, Landon. Darius really likes him, but there's also Chip Cusumano, a hot guy on Darius's soccer team. Darius isn't sure what he wants, but things have to be better.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: Realistic FIC Khorram Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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2008, c2007., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: 813 .6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Random House reader's circle
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By Lukoff, Kyle2022., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic Fic Lukoff Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Annabelle Blake is prepared for sixth grade to be fairly uneventful, but everything changes when she meets Bailey, a nonbinary new student who Annabelle develops her first crush on. Annabelle thinks Bailey is super great, and she enjoys hearing about their life in Seattle, meeting their entertaining parents, and hanging out at their massive house. But Annabelle's world is turned even more upside down when her father tells her that he and Bailey have something in common. When she learns how her community is not as welcoming as she thought, she is inspired to stand up for Bailey, her father, and other members of the LGBTQ+ community.