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1) Glory be
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In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
2) Grounded
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After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 22 cm.
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Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 20
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Overseeing her baby, a family wedding and her own approaching 40th birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with a warmhearted inventor only to discover his true intentions.
7) Blythewood
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Blythewood volume 1
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
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489 pages ; 22 cm
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"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--
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Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt's home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin, Ranger, involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.
11) Age of consent
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
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330 pages ; 22 cm
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Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.
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During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
13) P.S. Be eleven
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Gaither sisters volume 2
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Amistad
Pub. Date
[2013]
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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The Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn, where they adapt to new feelings of independence while managing changes large and small, from Pa's new girlfriend to a very different Uncle Darnell's return from Vietnam.
14) Family of liars
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We were liars volume Prequel
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 1
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When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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312 pages ; 22 cm
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
18) Rebound
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
19) Bag of bones
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Mike Noonan, a best selling author, is haunted by dreams about the death of his wife. Although it has been over four years since his wife's tragic death, Mike is unable to shake the grief. In an attempt to settle himself, Mike returns to his summer home. However, something dark is brewing underneath the town's surface, and Mike is about to discover it.
20) A northern light
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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