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By Brown, Echo2020., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: FANTASY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more"--Provided by publisher.
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By Brown, Echo2020., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: TEEN FIC BRO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more"--Provided by publisher.
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By Brown, Echo2020., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Call No: FIC DRAPER Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she's Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they are one of the only black families in the neighborhood. The next week she's Izzy with her mom and her boyfriend John-Mark in a small, not-so-fancy house that she loves. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they're always about HER. Isabella feels even more stuck in the middle, split and divided between them than ever. And she's is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it's also about switching identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white, and strangers are always commenting: "You're so exotic!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" She knows what they're really saying: "You don't look like your parents." "You're different." "What race are you really?" And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn't just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you're only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Young adult FIC DRAPER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police"--Provided by publisher.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Fic Draper Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
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c2005, Pre-adolescent, Knopf Distributed by Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
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2005., Knopf Call No: Historical fiction FIC PEARSALL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
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c2005., Juvenile, Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
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2013., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Angie, an overweight high school student, struggles with suicidal tendencies, bullies at school, and the presumed death of her soldier sister in Iraq. But when KC, a new girl in town, takes an interest in Angie, Angie feels the desire to do something with her life for the first time.
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2013., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: Realistic FIC Charlton-Trujillo Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Angie, an overweight high school student, struggles with suicidal tendencies, bullies at school, and the presumed death of her soldier sister in Iraq. But when KC, a new girl in town, takes an interest in Angie, Angie feels the desire to do something with her life for the first time.
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c2004., Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: Rather than go to a spiritual retreat in Oregon with her mother and brother, eleven-year-old Frances insists on staying in Ohio with her odd aunt, but she soon begins to worry that the retreat may really be a cult.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rather than go to a spiritual retreat in Oregon with her mother and brother, eleven-year-old Frances insists on staying in Ohio with her odd aunt, but she soon begins to worry that the retreat may really be a cult.
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2008., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
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c2008., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
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[2019], Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1970s Ohio, Lenny and her younger brother, Davey, who suffers from a rare form of gigantism, cope with his declining health by poring over each installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia Set.
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By Ng, Celeste2019., Penguin Books Call No: Realistic FIC Ng, Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In a perfect community based on rules, order, and conformity, a single mother named Mia and her daughter Pearl rent a house from the Richardsons. As the Richardson children become close to the mother-daughter pair, Elena Richardson begins to suspect the motives of this woman who goes against the grain, and who possesses a dark secret. And after family friends of the Richardsons enter into a fierce custody dispute over an adopted Chinese American child, pitting Mia and Elena against each other, Elena decides to investigate Mia's secrets with devastating effects.
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By Ng, Celeste2017., Penguin Press Call No: Young Adult FIC NG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
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c1999., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: TEEN FIC WAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school in the US --and her new label of 'Middle Eastern,' an identity she's never known before. But this life also brings unexpected surprises--there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude just might try out for. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is"--Provided by publisher.