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2007., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers Call No: Fantasy FIC Hale Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Genre: Fantasy Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on a classic fairy tale, Dashti a maid, and Lady Saren her mistress, have been imprisoned in a tower for seven years because Saren refuses to marry a man she despises. But when two new suitors appear both young women face real hope or else the possibility of life-threatening danger.
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2020., Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: GN-REALISTIC DAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Mona lives with crippling depression and anxiety. Because the dark emotions that fill her chest feel elemental and expansive, she names them her 'Matter,' which can manifest as a black hole or fog or take on a ghostlike form. But no matter what she calls it, her mental illness keeps her from fully engaging with the world around her. Therapy helps and, through various techniques like meditation, recognizing behavior patterns, and drawing, Mona slowly begins to reconnect with her friends, family, and the art she loves so much. She even breaks out of her shell and tentatively expands her social circle"--Booklist.
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2020., Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: GN Dark Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Mona Starr is sweet, geeky, and creative, but has a hard time making friends and connecting with people. When her best friend moves away, her struggle with depression becomes worse. But as Mona starts therapy, she learns to use art and writing as a way to express herself and with the help of a few persistent good friends, Mona begins to understand her depression and how she can turn her weaknesses into strengths.
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Ã2017., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Young Adult FIC STE Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She'd rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee. But when Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she's in love with Woods, Billie's filled with a nagging sadness as she realizes that she is also in love with Woods--and maybe with Janie Lee, too. Always considered "one of the guys," Billie doesn't want anyone slapping a label on her sexuality before she can understand it herself. So she keeps her conflicting feelings to herself, for fear of ruining the group dynamic. Except it's not just about keeping the peace, it's about understanding love on her terms--this thing that has always been defined as a boy and a girl falling in love and living happily ever after. For Billie--a box-defying dynamo--it's not that simple"--Amazon.com.
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By Dawson, Mike2021., Juvenile, First Second Call No: 741.5 973 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fourth-grader Lori Block doesn't care that she has to play in the "fifth quarter," a special period before her fourth-grade travel basketball team's real games begin so that the not-so-good players can practice in games against each other--she is just happy to have the chance to hone her skills. Lori pursues her passion, seeks confidence at school and at home, and hopes to one day play in the real travel basketball games.
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Ã2014., Adolescent, Keywords Press/Atria Call No: TEEN FIC FIC SUG Edition: 1st Keywords Press/ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Penny has a secret. Under the alias Girl Online, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her quirky family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse at school, her parents accept an opportunity to whisk the family away for Christmas at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. There, Penny meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly she is falling in love--and capturing every moment she spends with "Brooklyn Boy" on her blog. But Noah has a secret, too, one that threatens to ruin Penny's cover--and her closest friendship--forever"--Dust jacket.
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-- On tour2015., Adolescent, Keywords Press/Atria Call No: Teen Fiction FIC SUG Edition: 1st Keywords Press/ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can't wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah's jam-packed schedule, less-than-welcoming bandmates, and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she's really cut out for life on tour. She can't help but miss her family; her best friend, Elliot; and her blog, Girl Online. Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer?"--Dust Jacket.
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-- On tour2015., Adolescent, Keywords Press/Atria Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st Keywords Press/ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can't wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah's jam-packed schedule, less-than-welcoming bandmates, and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she's really cut out for life on tour. She can't help but miss her family; her best friend, Elliot; and her blog, Girl Online. Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer?"--Dust Jacket.
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2017., Grove Press Call No: Realistic FIC Fridlund Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Teenage Linda lives with her parents on a nearly-empty commune in northern Minnesota. Isolated at home and at school, Linda's world is jolted when one of her new teachers faces child pornography charges. And when a new family moves in across the lake and Linda is welcomed as a babysitter for their little son, Paul, Linda enters into a summer that will bring her choices and changes that affect her life forever.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Make Me a World Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC ELH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up faraway in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry. And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's . . . she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had"--Publisher.
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[2017]., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Realistic FIC Roat Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Socially shy teenager Vicky Decker begins Photoshopping herself into photos of other people and posting them on Instagram under the name Vicurious. And as her online popularity grows, she realizes that there are more socially shy people like her who are desperate for human interaction; and that in order to help them, she will have to step far out of her comfort zone.
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By Fahmy, Huda2021., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: GN FAH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not the one who knows everything about her religion or the one all the guys like. She's miscellaneous, which makes her feel like no one at all. Until she realizes that it'll take finding out who she isn't to figure out who she is"--Book jacket.
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2023., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: GN FAH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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By Fahmy, Huda2023., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: GN-HUMOR HUD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F LOC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Andi feels stranded after the loss of her mother, the artist who swept color onto Andi's blank canvas. When she is accepted to a music camp, Andi finds herself struggling to play her trumpet like she used to before her whole world changed. Meanwhile, Zora, a returning camper, is exhausted trying to please her parents, who are determined to make her a flute prodigy, even though she secretly has a dancer's heart. At Harmony Music Camp, Zora and Andi are the only two Black girls in a sea of mostly white faces. In kayaks and creaky cabins, the two begin to connect, unraveling their loss, insecurities, and hopes for the future. And as they struggle to figure out who they really are, they may just come to realize who they really need: each other.
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-- Korean pop confidentialBy Lee, Stephan[2020]., Adolescent, Point Call No: Realistic Fic Lee Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Candace Park is a quiet Korean girl who takes AP classes and plays a classical instrument. She keeps her dreams of stardom and her singing ability to herself. When Candace secretly enters a global audition to be part of a K-pop trainee program, the last thing she expects is to win a spot and for her parents to let her go. Once in Korea, Candace endures a strict routine of dance lessons, Korean language lessons, diets, and tries to figure out the hierarchies among her fellow trainees and follow the "no dating" rule, which becomes a lot harder when she meets a gorgeous male trainee. As Candace gets closer to winning a spot in a much-hyped K-pop girl group, she begins to question if it's worth risking her friendships, future, and everything she believes in.
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2019., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Teen FIC KHA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
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-- Love and lies of Rukhsana Ali2019., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F KHA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
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[2017], Henry Holt and Company Call No: REALISITIC F BUN Edition: First edition 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: FANTASY F CAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Moon's depression is overwhelming. Therapy doesn't help, and Moon is afraid that their mom hates them because they're sad. Moon's only escape is traveling to the spirit realms every night, where they hope they'll never return to the world of the living again. The spirit realm is where they have their one and only friend, Wolf, and where they're excited to experience an infinite number of adventures. But when the realm is threatened, it's up to Moon to save the spirit world. With the help of celestial beings and guardians, Moon battles monsters and shadows, and through their journey, they begin to learn that a magical adventure of love and acceptance awaits them in the world of the living, too. This story of hope shows readers that our souls blossom when we realize that we are as worthy and powerful as the universe itself"--Jacket flap.
