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Pub. Date
2013.
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Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
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Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
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Pub. Date
2019
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All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together was the best one of Freddy's life, but nothing's made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, funny, and so cute, but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy's head spinning, and Freddy's friends can't understand why she keeps going back. When Freddy consults the services of a local mystic, the mysterious...
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A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, Judy should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and profound.
7) Me (Moth)
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
8) Best enemies
Author
Series
Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin M!X
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
"If any two girls know about being the best, it's Heather Fox and Jasmine King. Just ask them; they'll be happy to tell you. But every girl knows that there can only be one 'best.' Can Sasha keep the girls from turning the arena into a war zone and still snag a spot on the coveted Youth Equestrian National Team?"--p. [4] of cover.
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Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. Verdita has always been safe and secure in her sleepy mountain town, but she must find the strength to decide what sort of woman she'll become.
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Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Esi, a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid political upheaval in postcolonial Ghana, begins to question the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society that surrounds her, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectationsplaced on women"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Struggling with two mortgages when their former house does not sell, Liz and Jonathan are encouraged by a charismatic realtor to rent the house to a London couple, an arrangement that is complicated by extramarital desires and Liz and Jonathan's troubled teenaged daughter's obsession with the tenants.
13) 13 and counting
Author
Series
Friendship list volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Confronted with a divorce, a loved one's illness, and social awkwardness, best friends Kaylan and Ari organize a new motivational list of thirteen goals to achieve before the end of the new school year.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to dilapidated 1950s Marshfield, California where he is forced to fend for himself against a ring of malicious bullies.
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
529 pages ; 25 cm
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"Haunted by their tragic pasts, Nate and Maddie Graves move back to their hometown with their son, Oliver, who becomes involved with a strange boy who has a taste for dark magic that puts them at the heart of a battle of good vs evil"--
16) Yo te inventé
Author
Publisher
Diamante
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Alex emprende una guerra contra la esquizofrenia. Decide afrontar la batalla diaria de buscar la diferencia entre la verdad y los inventos de su mente."--Page 4 of cover
17) 13 and 3/4
Author
Series
Friendship list volume 4
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ari and Kaylan aren't sure how they're going to survive their first summer apart. No pool. No sleepovers. No emergency late night chats on the porch. So as Ari returns to Camp Silver and Kaylan heads off to comedy camp, they come up with a new list of 13and 3/4 ways to keep their friendship strong as they tackle everything from bias to batik and moping to matchmaking. Told in alternating perspectives, the fourth book in the popular Friendship List...
18) Hunted
Author
Series
House of Night. Original series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
With ancient evil loose in the world, Zoey's very existence is on shaky ground and so when a seductive force is revealed to her, she must find the strength to reveal the truth or lose everything that matters, including her soul.
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
609 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
20) Don't judge me
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Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Hazel doesn't like to make waves. Middle school is hard enough without causing more trouble, right? She's happy just eating lunch in the library with her BFF, writing secret haikus, and taking care of an adorable rescue tortoise. But then Hazel discovers a list that rates the girls at her middle school based on their looks -- started by her best friend's older brother. She knows she has to do something, and she can't do it alone. The wave she'll...
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