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3) Spin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Arachne turns to weaving for solace, but when word spreads of her skill she is confronted by the goddess Athena and the two enter a weaving contest that results in transformation and redemption.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Ever since twelve-year-old Josh Kline found an antisemitic note in his family's mailbox in third grade, he has felt uncomfortable about his Jewish identity. At a new school where he's pretty sure he's the only Jew, he's hoping to just keep religion out of everything...until the morning someone sprays swastikas all over the building. That's when everything changes. In one of the school counseling groups set up in response to the attack, Josh finally...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to knowmore about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
9) Ruptured
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Phoebe navigates fear, grief, and hope for recovery about when her mother has a ruptured brain aneurysm while their family is on vacation, and right after her mother shares that she's planning to leave Phoebe's father"--
10) Love that dog
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Description
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in verse, seventeen-year-old Eliza, an environmental activist, is navigating the after-effects of a hurricane that devastated her coastal town while falling for Milo, a rich tourist who is at the center of a redevelopment that could put her communityin danger--again.
14) Wolfpack
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicision and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A story told in verse from multiple perspectives of the graduating fifth grade class of Emerson Elementary. The kids join together to try to save their school from being torn down to make way for a supermarket"--
16) Forever is now
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
17) Rain rising
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
Author
Publisher
Allida, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the aftermath of 9/11, high school sophomore Omid grapples with finding the right words to connect with his grandfather, embrace his Iranian heritage, and express his feelings towards a girl, until he immerses himself in the rhymes and rhythms of rap music and finds his voice.
19) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
20) Starfish
Author
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Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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