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-- Are you there God? It is me, Margaret.By Blume, Judy2001, c1970., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: Rev. format ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
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[2017]., Adolescent, HarperCollins Call No: REALISTIC F MES Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Taking a hard look at the societal conventions that constrain teenage girls, Carrie Mesrobian tells one girl's story with bracing honesty and refreshing authenticity.
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[2020]., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F TEM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother--a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial--Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as 'Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls.' Soon, she finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls determined to transcend their circumstances, by any means necessary. Led by the elusive and beautiful Serena, and her aloof, secretive acolytes, Janet and Laurel, the girls decide this is the summer they will finally achieve enlightenment--and learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness. But as desire and danger intertwine, and Olivia comes ever closer to discovering what a body--and a girl--is capable of, it becomes increasingly clear that this is an advanced and perilous practice, and there's a chance not all of them will survive. Set over the course of one fateful summer that unfolds like a fever dream, The Lightness juxtaposes fairy tales with quantum physics, cognitive science with religious fervor, and the passions and obsessions of youth with all of these, to explore concepts as complex as faith and as simple as loving people--even though you don't, and can't, know them at all"--From the publisher's web site.
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2001., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC WOLFF Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it.
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c2001., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
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2019., Adolescent, Bloomsbury YA Call No: REALISTIC F WAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial microaggressions she experiences--and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate in real life, the principal shuts the club down. Not willing to be silenced, Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices--and those of other young women--to be heard. These two dynamic, creative young women stand up and speak out in a novel that features their compelling art and poetry along with powerful personal journeys that will inspire readers and budding poets, feminists, and activists.
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2020., Adolescent, Bloomsbury YA Call No: FIC WATSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends who are sick over the way their school fails to listen to their voices so they start a new club, one dedicated to writing and creating work that supports women's ideas. But when their work goes viral, fans and foes come out online and in real life, and the school administration threatens to shut them down for "instigating." They will risk everything for their voices--and those of other young women--to be heard.
