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Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
2) Crunch
Author
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
3) Keeper
Author
Series
Paul Faustino novels volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
4) The mall
Author
Language
English
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Description
With her plans for the future crushed at the start of the summer of 1991, seventeen-year-old Cassie Worthy finds friendship, love, and ultimately herself while working at the Parkway Center Mall.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Language
English
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
7) Raging star
Author
Series
Dustlands trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo and the Tonton, until she meets him and he confounds all her expectations with his seductive vision of a healed earth, a New Eden.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.
11) Isla to island
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A psychological thriller following two teen girls, one from a Texas border town hoping to outrun her past and another from Washington state who fears for her future in a public housing complex; when their worlds collide, only one girl will make it out alive"--
13) Justine: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ali is a lonely teenager living with her grandmother on Long Island and becomes drawn to Justine, a seductive but troubled cashier who takes Ali under wing, but as Ali's fixation with her grows, her inability to connect with her newfound idol leads to a series of events that will forever change their lives.
15) Wildlife
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambi-the original source of the beloved story. Most of us think we know the story of Bambi-but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. For decades, readers' images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film-an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature's innocence-which...
19) Ghost Hawk
Author
Language
English
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"When Emily Arnold receives a journal from Grandmother Lee, she begins a diary that will take her through the years and from her tiny cabin home to amazing destinations ... based on a true story"--Back cover.
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