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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
5) Revolution
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunny can't help but feel like her house is being invaded, too. She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowding her life. Things get even trickier when Sunny and her brother are caught sneaking into the local swimming pool -- where they bump into a mystery boy whose life is going to become tangled up in theirs.
7) Miracle
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rising senior and star soccer player Megan Hathaway, unable to remember the plane crash of which she was the sole survivor, feels like an empty shell and loses all interest in her life and her friends, but unlikely friends help her face life as a "miracle."
8) Hands
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
10) Nigeria Jones
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--
11) Twelve
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
12) Feathers
Author
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
13) Wild beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, hiding a terrible legacy, until mysterious Fel arrives and Estrella helps him explore his dangerous past.
14) A dog's way home
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Conspiracy of us trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Avery West learns her family is part of a powerful and dangerous secret society, and that her own life is in danger, she must follow a trail of clues across Europe.
16) Sin pareja
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out. A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone—anyone!—to go with on the big night. But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and a female classmate as a "group of friends." But the night...
17) Hummingbird
Author
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
18) The chosen one
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
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Language
English
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Fiction books in honour of Transgender day of Remembrance
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
Tricky Topics: Talking about Abuse with Children
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
Tricky Topics: Talking about Abuse with Children
Formats
Description
A fifth-grader whose best friends walked away, whose mother is detached, and whose father does unspeakable things, copes with the help of friend Sofie and anonymous letters tied to balloons and released.
Author
Series
Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tomboy A.J. loves fixing cars and hanging out with the boys, while jet-setting Kate is always dressed in the latest trends. So when they start attending the same school in the fall, they find they don?t have much in common. But when they are forced to spend the following summer together at camp, a revelation of faith bonds the girls forever.
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