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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Effie's being honest with herself, she knows just what she wants.
She wants to enjoy all the firsts and lasts of senior year with her two best friends. She wants to go to college in NYC and major in mass media so she can make sure more disabled people like her get to see themselves represented. She's never been to New York, but she can picture the person she'll be there, far from the Minneapolis neighborhood where she's lived her entire life.
And...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting and deeply moving debut--a love story in the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing--that is both a stunning exploration of the natural world and an unforgettable coming-of-age novel. Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family's peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sarah is leaving suburban Wisconsin for her freshman year in Minnesota. She has high hopes for the foreseeable future: impress her professors, meet interesting new people, stay close to her best friends and boyfriend back home, flourish as an artist, and shed her lingering high school anxieties. What seems manageable at first quickly unravels into a tailspin as Sarah's high-achieving roommate puts her to shame, her summer love dissolves, and she is...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits - the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York’s Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
143 pages, 33 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For Aella, life on Kinamen Isle is one of boredom. Spending her days fishing and minding her aunts, she dreams of life beyond the horizon. Everything changes, however, when she awakens an ancient evil within herself as it's revealed that she's the reincarnation of Xir, the serpent that almost destroyed the world. Worse yet, a fanatical religious organization has arrived on Kinamen Isle in search of Xir. As Aella is forced to fight for her life, she'll...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling...
11) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Author
Series
Farah Rocks volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifth grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend, Allie Liu, are excited to apply to the Magnet Academy. For years they've been dreaming about attending middle school there. But when new girl Dana starts bullying Farah's little brother, Samir, Farah isn't sure she can leave her brother behind.
Meanwhile, Allie is getting friendly with Dana's friends, Farah's mama and baba are stressed over work and money, and Farah's teachers don't seem to think the...
13) Forsooth
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
353 pages : 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Calvin knows he's destined to be a star... if he can just stop making embarrassing mistakes, like getting stuck on a single line--"Forsooth!"--and then falling off the stage during the school play. The summer after seventh grade, he's hoping for a fresh start. All he has to do is prove himself as an actor and fix the awkwardness with his friends that started after the play.
But nothing's going according to plan. His parents don't...
14) Manatee summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of all the amazing animal species they can find around their Florida town. When Peter meets a manatee (Discovery #95), he knows he's found something special--especially because his grandpa has been telling him enchanting stories about manatees for years.
But Peter quickly learns this summer won't go exactly as planned....
15) Sophie steps up
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Sophie Under Pressure," worried that her parents are breaking up, Sophie gets lost in an imaginary world again as she and her friends transform Fiona's tree house into a space station as a school science project; In "Sophie Steps Up," a new student in the Corn Flakes' drama group causes tempers to flare, but a Bible story helps her to pull the performers together.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
17) On the road
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady).
18) Nikhil Out Loud
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
312 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nikil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But when his mom temporarily moves them to the small town in Ohio where she grew up to take care of Nikhil's sick grandfather. Nikhil feels as out of orbit as his character.
Nikhil's fame lands him the lead in the school musical, but he's terrified that everyone will realize he's a fraud once they find out he has stage fright....
19) The Dark Place
Author
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
327 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn't ask to disappear. She didn't ask to move from Kansas City, Kansas out to the suburbs in Missouri. But she did disappear, and not only that, when she vanished from out world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother went missing.
Just as Hylee realizes this moment could offer a chance to unravel the truth about her brother, she's yanked...
20) Family meal
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...