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"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
3) Lumberjanes
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Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2015-
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volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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The story follows a group of girls named Mal, Ripley, Molly, April, and Jo spending summer at a scout camp, and the strange creatures and supernatural phenomena they encounter there.
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Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father--until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on many...
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Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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342 pages ; 22 cm
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A week before she is to become a polygamist's fifth wife, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger from outside the secluded community of Clearhaven, who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will.
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"Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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A sassy style guide for girls shares insight into the fashion world and how to personalize one's appearance for best results, chronicling fashion trends throughout history while sharing practical tips from top designers and models.
10) Glimmerglass
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Faeriewalker volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
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294 p. ; 21 cm.
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Dana Hathaway, a Faeriewalker who can travel between Earth and the Faire world, finds herself at Avalon, the intersection of the two worlds, as she tries to find her father and isn't sure whom to trust when she discovers that someone in Avalon wants her dead.
11) Pretties
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Uglies volume 2
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Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
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Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
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405 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure - and to kill.
13) Towelhead
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows the life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening after moving to suburban Houston with her strict father.
14) The fits
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Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Soon after joining a dance drill team at her local rec center, an eleven-year-old girl and her new friends begin to suffer from mysterious episodes of fainting.
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Series
Faeriewalker volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 21 cm.
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Dana is invited to the land of Faerie amid tensions between her and the Seelie Queen, Titania, and she must prove her innocence in a murder plot while dealing with the affections of her boyfriend Ethan and her bodyguard's son, Keane.
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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
17) Giant days
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Series
Giant days volume 13
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
2015-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther,...
18) The lovely bones
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The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
19) Turning red
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A thirteen-year-old girl named Mei Lee turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.
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