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Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Formats
Description
After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
9) Throwback
Author
Publisher
Zando Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 355 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A Gen Z Korean American girl gets stuck in the '90s with her teenaged mother in this fresh, funny adventure full of heart, humor, and time-crossed romance"--
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."
14) Matteo
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Set in 1996 southern California, high school senior Rana Joon wants to honor her deceased best friend by entering a rap contest and living authentically as a lesbian, but feels conflicted by her Iranian family's expectations.
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.
18) 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
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family"--
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