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1) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
4) Gift horse
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom-who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure.Gift Horse: When a mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro?s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.
6) Lost in Rome
Author
Series
Lost in-- volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lucy's plans of being a camp counselor this summer suddenly became traveling to Rome, Italy and working at her aunt's pizza shop Amore Pizzeria.
Author
Series
Goth Girl (Chris Riddell) volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The best chefs in the world come together for the Full-Moon Fete and the Great Ghastly-Gorm Bake Off and Ada's only hope is that someone remembers that it's her birthday.
8) Team awkward
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
School sports day is looming, and Anna is limbering up to be team captain. Anna is also not sporty or athletic.
10) The Night Parade
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saki Yamamoto's attempt to fit in with the local kids could prove deadly when she accidentally casts a death curse. Thirteen-year-old Saki is stuck at her grandmother's place in the boring Japanese countryside when Saki decides to astonish the local kids at the family graveyard. After invoking the curse, Saki must overcome several challenges if she hopes to survive her trip into the spirit world known as the Night Parade.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It?s not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan?s one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There?s also the matter of a strange man...
12) Mei's wild ride
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she poofs into a giant red panda!
13) Up a road slowly
Author
Series
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
2́011
Language
English
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Description
After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
Author
Series
Jo Jo volume 1
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Hello/Boozhoo-meet Jo Jo Makoons! Full of pride, joy, and plenty of humor, this first book in an all-new chapter book series by Dawn Quigley celebrates a spunky young Ojibwe girl who loves who she is. Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn-about how good Jo Jo...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of research scientists, Kim does her best to lead a normal teenaged life - going to class, attending proms, and the like. Unfortunately, the world is full of pesky master criminals and super nasty villains, compelling the high-flying, martial arts savvy Kim to kick butt on occasion in the interests of humanity and the American way. Ron is Kim's nerdish sidekick.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs,...
Author
Series
Merci Suarez volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Seventh grade is going to be a real trial for Merci Su?rez. For science she?s got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis, who expects her to be a smart as her brother, Roli. She?s been assigned to co-manage the tiny school store with Wilson Bellevue, a boy she barely knows, but whom she might actually like. And she?s tangling again with classmate Edna Santos, who is bossier and more obnoxious than ever now that she is in charge of the annual...
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