Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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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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2007., Adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: REALISTIC F MAS Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When high school junior Tessa Reynolds falls into a coma after getting hit in the head during gym class, she experiences heaven as the mall where her parents work, and she revisits key events from her life, causing her to reevaluate herself and how she wants to live.
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[2008]., Juvenile, Square Fish Call No: Young adult FIC APPLEGATE Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Realistic Fic Abbott Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Bobby Lang lives in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard with his abusive father. His life is changed when he meets a girl named Rachel who has her own share of problems. Together, the two become friends and embark on a journey of self-acceptance and redemption.
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-- Joan of Arc reimagined[2019]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F HEM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. This verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation."--Jacket flap.
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-- Moth (me)2021., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: REALISTIC F MCB Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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-- Moth (me)2021., General, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Young Adult Fiction MCB Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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[2022]., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: TEEN FIC CUL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby town. But if Rynn reconnects with her biological sister, it may drive her adoptive family apart for good."--
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[2022]., Adolescent, Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: ROMANCE F WOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren't so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end?"--Front jacket flap.
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2018., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Young adult FIC ACEVEDO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Zoboi Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F ZOB Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. "The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born." Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.
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-- Star fishBy Fipps, Lisa[2021]., Juvenile, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: FIC FIPPS Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Blink Call No: Realistic Fic Alexander Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Noah, who is white, and his best friend Walt, who is black, are determined to woo the girls of their dreams and become star athletes despite being cut from the baseball team and Sam, Noah's dream girl, having him firmly in the friend zone. When Noah finds a stash of old love letters that have the words that he's always wanted to say to Sam, he starts making artwork using lines from the letters. When his art becomes public, and hidden prejudices in the town build to a climax, Noah and Walt have to decide what love, friendship, sacrifice, and the truth mean to them.
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-- Traffic.[2015]., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC HOP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Cameron Kids Call No: SPORTS FIC FAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
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By Wilson, Kip[2019]., Adolescent, Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HISTORICAL F WIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
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By Glenn, Melc1996., Juvenile, Lodestar Books Call No: Mystery FIC Glenn Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.
