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1) I, Coriander
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English
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I looked back into the room. The floor had become a sea and my parents' bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling me from far away. It lasted a minute or less. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I didn't. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone. Would everything then have been all right?
It is the night,...
It is the night,...
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English
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
4) The pick-up
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English
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When Mari and her stepsister Sierra share a ride to a music festival with two brothers, T.J. and Tyler, Mari and T.J. are instantly attracted to each other, but Mari is only in Chicago for a weekend with her father's new family, and eventually she will have to return to her increasingly abusive mother--unless she can overcome her reservations about dating and maybe arrange to stay in Chicago permanently.
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Magic misfits volume 4
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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"The Magic Misfits confront their greatest enemy in this final story told from Ridley's point of view"--
8) Braced
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English
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When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
10) Code red
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
11) In search of us
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Relates the stories of Marilyn who, at age seventeen, fell in love with James, left her stage-mother, and set out on her own and Angie, her now seventeen-year-old daughter, who returns to Hollywood seeking her father.
12) Far away
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Twelve-year-old CJ believes her mom is dead and that she can only communicate with her through her aunt, who is a medium, but when CJ finds out that her mother is actually alive, she goes on a journey to find her.
13) Hurricane child
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
14) Starfish
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped, Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
16) Being Fishkill
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill?s fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina,...
17) Little women
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English
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Anne of Green Gables: Further Reading
Books That Take Place in Another Time
Coming-of-Age Stories with a Female Protagonist
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
18) Me and Mama
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Publisher
Denene Millner Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.
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Series
Debutantes (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.
20) Two Summers
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English
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Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush--and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.
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