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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It's 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old etiquette handbook that guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly, her clever, headstrong teenage...
723) Foxes
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bold and brazen Jeanie has a lot to cope with. Her mom is divorced and desperate, her friends abuse drugs and alcohol, and on top of it all, she has to deal with immature Valley boys and "boring" North Hollywood High. Luckily she's got dancing, disco and her rebel gal pals to party with till she drops! But when her best friend Annie runs off to get away from her abusive, father, Jeanie has to grow up fast or lose her friend forever.
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her loneliness through her summer algebra class, the city itself, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults fail her again and again with devastating consequences. Dreamlike and beautifully paced, this lyrical debut memoir traces that harrowing summer and its repercussions throughout...
725) On a sunbeam
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Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
533 pages : chiefly color illustratoins ; 23 cm
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A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
726) If you'll have me
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who's always ready to lend a helping hand. She's introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard. An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together,...
727) Gear School
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Thirteen-year-old Teresa Gottlieb has just entered the most prestigious military academy, known to all as Gear School, to try and become one of those elite. But on top of all the usual troubles that a seventh-grader has to put up with--boys, social cliques, hellish instructors-- she also has to deal with three-story tall robots and alien invasions!"--P. [4] of cover
729) Georgia rule
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rachel is a rebellious teenager who is uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily's San Francisco home. Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return, her mother's Idaho farm. Georgia is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same. Now Georgia is saddled with raising the young...
730) This one summer
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
317 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
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Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets and heartache, and it's a good...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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"An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide. Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them,...
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