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Publisher
Make Me A World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her...
2) 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"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
5) Ultraviolet
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
6) I am Kavi
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War, one Sinhalese girl must adapt to a new school, a new city, and new friends, while always staying true to herself"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
418 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Description
Una novela en verso inolvidable, torrencial, esperanzadora, que redefine la esperanza. Sarai es primera generación de una familia puertorriqueña que vive en New York. Estudia octavo grado y ya puede ver con claridad la verdad, el dolor y la belleza del mundo, tanto dentro como fuera de su apartamento en Bushwick. Junto con su hermana mayor, Estrella, navega la tensión de traumas familiares, las presiones de la masculinidad tóxica y la inseguridad...
8) Mascot
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Six eighth graders outside Washington, DC, navigate through conflict and division focused on their school district's Native American mascot"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But...
10) Rain remembers
Author
Publisher
Harper, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Rain must once again find the strength to rise above. The start of the school year is bringing a lot of changes for Rain: New school. No Circle Group. No Dr. McCalla. No Miss Walia. No step team. And Xander, her older brother and superhero, is away at college. Although everyone else seems okay with change, Rain struggles to open up to her new counselor, her mom, Umi, Alyssa, and even Xander, who seems to have forgotten all about her while away at...
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Description
Krista is convinced her sister, Sadie, is possessed by a demon. It's the only plausible explanation for how cold and distant she's become since reaching high school. And it's why Krista bought the strange book online: to destroy the demon and get her sister back. But when their summoning ritual goes terribly right, Krista and Sadie realize too late that what they brought into the world hasn't come to help. Trapped in their apartment building with...
12) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
296 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.
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Description
Fables 2.0: La Fontaine à l'ère numérique.
Réinventées en vers pour le monde moderne, 'Fables 2.0: La Fontaine à l'ère numérique' transporte les fables intemporelles de La Fontaine dans le contexte digital de notre époque. Dans un monde où les pixels remplacent l'encre et où technologie côtoie l'humain, redécouvrez ces histoires classiques transposées dans l'univers digital.
Là où les serveurs deviennent des forêts, les virus, des...
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From award-winning verse novelist Shari Green comes an unforgettable story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream.
Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of...
15) Warrior girl
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Celina and her family are bilingual and follow both Mexican and American traditions. Celina revels in her Mexican heritage, but once she starts school it feels like the world wants her to erase that part of her identity. Fortunately, she’s got an army of family and three fabulous new friends behind her to fight the ignorance. But it’s her Gramma who’s her biggest inspiration, encouraging Celina to build a shield of joy around...
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