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2008., Adolescent, Lee & Low Books Call No: Realistic FIC Delacre Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the life of Alicia, a popular sixteen-year-old, in the aftermath of a fatal car crash, as her friends, family members, and others recall key episodes that show her impact on their lives. Includes author's note about the real Alicia and how she inspired the book, as well as resources on teen grief.
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c2010., Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
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2010., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC WILES Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in the fear-laden sixties when duck-and-cover drills sent kids cowering under their desks, this novel follows Frannyas she tries to make sense of the pervading threat of nuclear devastation, sibling tension, and her place in this complex world. Contains photos, news clips, and songs from the time.
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2010., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC WILES Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in the fear-laden sixties when duck-and-cover drills sent kids cowering under their desks, this novel follows Frannyas she tries to make sense of the pervading threat of nuclear devastation, sibling tension, and her place in this complex world. Contains photos, news clips, and songs from the time.
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2010., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: The sixties trilogy Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: Set in the fear-laden sixties when duck-and-cover drills sent kids cowering under their desks, this novel follows Franny as she tries to make sense of the pervading threat of nuclear devastation, sibling tension, and her place in this complex world. Contains photos, news clips, and songs from the time.
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c2008., Adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic FIC Naylor Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.
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[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL F WEA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.
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-- M plus O forever2008., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Co. Call No: Fic Hegamin Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In parallel stories, Hannah, a slave, finds love while fleeing a Maryland plantation in 1842, and in the present, Opal watches her life-long best friend, Marianne, pull away and eventually lose her life in the same Pennsylvania ravine where Hannah died.
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2014., Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At her family's Maryland home, in a world where colonists lost the 1776 Insurrection, Sarah Parsons and her friend Jackson share visions of a different existence and, having remembered how things ought to be, plan a daring mission to set them right.
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-- Now I will tell you everything[2013], Adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Alice.Summary Note: As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
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2020., Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F BOR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: High school junior Alex has just begun dating when he begins to realize his true identity as a young woman named Sasha Masha.
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2023., Pre-adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc Call No: GN LLO Edition: First edition. Genre: Graphic novels, Graphic novels, Graphic novels, Graphic novels Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl! Avery hatches a plan to finally get her own room, all while trying to get Max to sleep at night, navigating changes in her friendships, and working on an art entry for the fair. And when Avery finds out that her family might move across the country, things get even more complicated. Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter have once again teamed up to tell a funny, heartfelt, and charming story of family, friendship, and growing up"--Page 4 of cover.
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2008., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: FIC MIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writing a diary from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl whose brothers fight on opposite sides in the Civil War.