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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...
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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...
4) 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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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
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356 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
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Unsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a pack of friends who are all just helping each other get by. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the internet is blocked (never mind traffic in and out), Rosary, California, is run by evangelicals but was named by Catholics. It's a town on very formal relations with its neighbors, one that...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2006
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128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Discusses the physical changes that occur as a teenage girl goes through puberty, covering such topics as weight, skin, height, eating habits, the reproductive system, hormones, the menstrual cycle, sex, and body image.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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356 pages ; 24 cm
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On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he?s found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand?a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region. In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed,...
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Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door.
11) The tender years
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Prairie Legacy volume 1
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The Heartwarming Return to the Legacy of Marty and Clark Davis From the LOVE COMES SOFTLY series... Twenty years have passed since youngest daughter Belinda's story in Love Finds a Home. Marty and Clark's spiritual heritage has been lovingly passed on to their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And now beloved granddaughter Virginia faces the test of her young life. Caught in that difficult period between childhood and adulthood,...
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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...
14) Girl land
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
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209 p. ; 22 cm.
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Describes the modern transition from girl to woman and discusses the changes that have taken place in the process over the past thirty years while finding that the landmarks through the journey have remained the same.
16) The fashion book
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
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.
17) Broken flower
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Series
Early spring volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 22 cm.
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