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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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[2020]., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: REALISTIC F STO Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns to uncertainty: G'ma keeps changing the license plate, dodging Scoob's questions, and refusing to check Dad's voice mails. And the farther they go, the more Scoob realizes that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--G'ma included"--Jacket flap.
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-- Darius the Great is not OK2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: 813.6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian -- half, his mom's side -- and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes. Soon, they're spending their days together, playing soccer, eating faludeh, and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city's skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush -- the original Persian version of his name -- and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab.
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2021., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Fantasy Fic Corthron Edition: First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the Jim Crow South, Evalene Deschamps tries to look after her two little sisters, succeed in school, and help her mother, while also dealing with her burgeoning magical abilities. As she comes into her powers, a dark being has shaken loose and it will take all Evvie has to free herself from the demons of her past.
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By Hughes, Kiku[2020]., First Second Call No: GN Displacement Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While on vacation in San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Kiku finds herself displaced to the Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother was forcibly relocated to during World War II. After finding herself "stuck" in the 1940s, Kiku adjusts to the harsh life of the camp and experiences how the internees managed to create a community and commit small acts of resistance in order to survive. When she eventually returns back to her time, she realizes that the lessons she learned in camp about racism and civil liberties are still relevant.
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[2017]., Juvenile, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Young Adult FIC LEN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Sky Pony Press Call No: Adventure Fic Shrum Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Hallie Jacob's grandfather becomes ill, her parents remove her from school in the middle of her senior year and they all head to Colorado to spend his last days with him. There Hallie is surrounded by cousins but family drama prevents her from hanging out with them. But when she sneaks off with them to an abandoned ski slope for a bonfire, they get caught in a mudslide. Some in their group need medical attention so Hallie and Jonah Ramirez, her cousin's best friend, set off down the mountain to get help. Now the two will have to trust each other if they want to survive.
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-- Light too bright[2018]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F MIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Arthur Louis Pullman the Third has been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. He discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman, a Salinger-esque author who went missing the last week of his life and died hundreds of miles away from their family home. Using the journal as a guide, Arthur embarks on a cross-country train ride to relive his grandfather's last week. His journey is complicated by a shaky alliance with a girl who has secrets of her own and by escalating run-ins with a dangerous Pullman fan base.
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By Chee, Traci2022., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: Historical Fic Chee Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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2022., Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Realistic Fic Hammonds Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old biracial Avery Anderson's life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to Bardell, Georgia, to live with her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. Avery's mom and Mama Letty have a strained relationship, but they won't tell Avery what caused it. Fortunately, Avery befriends Simone Cole, her Black next-door neighbor who she begins to fall for, and Jade Oliver, the White daughter of the town's most prominent family. As Avery begins to unpacks Bardell's racist past, she learns more about her own family's tragic connection to the town and about the unsolved murder of Jade's mother.