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Pub. Date
2024.
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
6) Sugaring off
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Partially deaf, seventeen-year-old Owl feels the most free hiking the forested areas around her family's New Hampshire farm, but the apperance of Cody, a magnetic young man hired to help with the sugaring off, forces Owl to make difficult decisions abouttheir relationship and her relationship with her family.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After her mother's sudden departure, twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez adjusts to her new life in an RV campground with her father, and finds her voice through new friendships and a love for Celia Cruz, the "queen of salsa."
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Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 2
Description
Set in modern Nigeria, this illustrated chapter book follows Anna Hibiscus, who lives with her large, loving family in a compound in a big city, as she escapes hair-braiding day, plays hide-and-seek during a power outage and learns about spontaneous generosity.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Description
As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
11) Nigeria Jones
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Ages 8-12.
When eleven-year-old Perpeuta promises to save her family from financial ruin, she sets off on a quest with her younger brother, a stolen horse, and a chicken in search of a valuable coin.
Author
Series
Silver Batal volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Silver Batal, a young desert-dweller, dreams of becoming a water dragon racer, and when she befriends a rare dragon that can swim and fly, she may just get her chance.
15) Alpaca my bags
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After her family decides to settle down in Colorado after months of traveling in an RV, Amelia has trouble adjusting to school and she finds comfort in caring for alpacas on a nearby ranch, but when a classmate's prank puts the alpacas in danger, Amelia will have to use all her resources to save them.
16) Bedtime bonnet
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
As family members braid, brush, twirl, roll, and tighten their hair before bedtime, putting on kerchiefs, wave caps, and other protective items, the little sister cannot find her bonnet.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Nineteen-year-old Avery plans to end her life but changes her mind when she learns an asteroid is heading towards Earth, and with nine days left to live, long held secrets begin to come out and Avery finally begins to heal.
19) The train home
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
A young girl who wishes for a place to call her own, imagines a train that takes her through the city and beyond, and she explores different places until she discovers the place she truly belongs.
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