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-- Ten things I can see from here2020., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Mac Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Maeve, a girl who struggles with severe anxiety--to the point where she composes obituaries for herself and others in her head--goes to Vancouver to live with her sometimes-sober dad while her mom, the only person who understands her, has to go to Haiti for months for work. In Vancouver Maeve meets Salix, a girl who seems never to worry about anything, and the two begin a bumbling courtship together, which might bring even more catastrophe than Maeve could ever have foreseen.
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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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[2021]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Realistic Fic Van Name Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old June feels she is nothing without her best friend, Jess, but everything changes after she is expelled and must attend a Virginia boarding school where her grandmother teaches.
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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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[2016]., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Realistic FIC Philpot Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Homer's time with Mia is slipping away. He has never met anyone like her before, and before she leaves, he has to work up the courage to tell her how he feels. So, Homer volunteers to drive Mia up the East Coast to her new home, hoping this last chance will be the one that counts, that convinces her to stay with him. Unfortunately, Homer's kid brother, Einstein, tags along with them, and the only vehicle available is a beat-up, garishly yellow piece of junk.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books Call No: Romance Fic Clayton Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a collection of six short romance stories about black teens by various authors that are all set in contemporary New York City during a summer blackout due to a heat wave. The characters are all either on their way or eventually heading to a block party in Brooklyn and confront a mix of feelings associated with varying stages of relationships, including instant connections, reconciling a past break-up, and friendships on the cusp of love.
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By Hilb, Jessie[2018]., Adolescent, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Realistic Fic Hilb Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Overweight and pretty, high school senior Aden gets caught up in an exciting new friendship that quickly turns into unreturned love--at least on Aden's side--even while it helps her get closer to her deceased mother's heritage.
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[2016]., Juvenile, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Realistic FIC McNally Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tired of the half-truths surrounding her famous family's past, Phoebe visits her indie-rock darling sister Luna to see how she fits into a family of storytellers.
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2018., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Realistic Fic Smith Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Louise dumps her popular, jock boyfriend after he makes some insensitive remarks about his brother's Native American fiancée without regard for the fact that she is also Native American. As a reporter for her school newspaper, she finds herself working on the story of the year alongside Joey. A story that involves racism, blackmail, and bullying centered around the cast of the school play--a cast that includes Louise's younger brother.
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2020., Adolescent, Page Street Publishing Co. Call No: Realistic Fic Jaigirdar Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When teenager Nishat comes out to her Bangladeshi parents, they are less than supportive, so she hides her disappointment by throwing herself into a entrepreneurial school challenge where she creates a business showcasing henna tattoo art. A girl she has a secret crush on, Flávia, also decides to do the same business idea, which initially angers Nishat and fuels a rivalry, until she realizes that the business may be Flávia's way of telling Nishat how she feels about her. Now Nishat must decide whether to keep her lesbianism a secret for her parents' sake, or give her relationship with Flávia a chance.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Realistic Fic Buxbaum Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Abbi Hope Goldstein is photographed as a baby on September 11, 2001, holding a red balloon with a collapsing South Tower of the World Trade Center in the background. She became an internet meme, but now, fifteen years later, Abbi just wants to have a normal, unrecognized summer as a counselor at Knight's Day Camp. Unfortunately, Noah Stern, whose own life was changed forever after 9/11, comes to the camp too, and recognizes her, threatening to reveal her identity.
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2021., Adolescent, Viking Call No: Realistic Fic Ahmadi Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an encounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk.
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By Kann, Claire2021., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Realistic Fic Kann Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Winnie's plans for one last great summer before heading off to college were all coming together--she has her job in her granny's diner, getting great tips, and her loving family and "ungirlfriend" are by her side in support of everything--and then she is nominated to be her town's Summer Queen. Now she must be crowned and take center stage in all sorts of "community royal engagements," and Winnie finds she is afraid, terribly afraid, of everything. For her to salvage her summer, Winnie will have to dig deep and find her courage.
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By Gomez, Halli[2022]., Adolescent, Sterling Teen Call No: Realistic Fic Gomez Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Troy Hayes, who has Tourette syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, is done dealing with daily humiliation, pain, and loneliness. He makes a list of nine things he wants to accomplish before the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, and then he plans to complete the tenth thing--suicide. While working through the list, Troy becomes friends with Khory, who is dealing with her own pain. As Khory unwittingly helps him cross things off his list, she shows him life has much to offer.
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-- Love and olives2020., General Call No: Young Adult Fiction WEL Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her long-estranged father invites sixteen-year-old Liv Varanakis to help him film a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she looks forward to reconnecting but discovers he may have invited her to Greece for a very different reason.
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[2011], c2009., Adolescent, Scholastic Call No: Realistic Fic Stork Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: Realistic Fic Oelke Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Having recently been expelled from high school, Jane Sinner enrolls in community college, where the student-run reality show "House of Orange" feels like her chance to start over. However, it turns out that a new start isn't all she wants, or needs--a family who understands her would be nice, but maybe the growing fanbase for "HOO" can suffice for now.
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2022., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Garrett Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Josie Wright wins a contest to write a celebrity profile piece for a popular magazine and finds her life drastically changing--she is taken on a multi-city tour and gets to rub elbows with the famous and glamorous while writing about the handsome, young, new celebrity Marius Canet. However, when one young actress after another confides a terrible secret to Josie--secrets having to do with Marius' conduct with women--she has to wonder if she is in over her head.
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2019., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Realistic Fic Gilbert Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.
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2022., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: Realistic Fic Mangle Edition: First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Raised among doomsday preppers, Becca Aldaine's life has centered on planning for the worst, but when her escape plan is jeopardized, she turns to the boy she is expected to marry and hopes for the best.