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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Planning is Zoe Rosenthal's superpower. She has faith in a properly organized to-do list and avoids unnecessary risks. Her mental checklist goes something like this: 1) Meet soulmate: DONE! 2) Make commitment: DONE! 3) Marriage: TO COME! (after college). She isn't sure which college yet, but it will have a strong political science department, since her perfect boyfriend, Simon, plans to "save the country," as his sister puts it, "and the planet and...
62) Invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain, Sara: the loner, Dayara: the tough kid, Nico: the rich kid, and Miguel: the athlete. And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same... just five Spanish-speaking kids. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help,...
63) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
64) Ride on
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
218 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Victoria has always loved horses. But riding in competitions is high stakes, high stress, and shockingly expensive. And even though Victoria's best friend Taylor loves competing, Victoria has lost her taste for it. After a heartbreaking fight with Taylor, Victoria needs a new start--at a new stable. A place where she doesn't have to worry about anything other than riding. No competition, no drama, no friends. Just horses. Edgewood Stables seems ideal....
65) It's owl good
Author
Series
Super adventures of Ollie and Bea volume 1
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
62 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ollie is an owl who wears glasses; Bea is a bunny with very big feet, and both are very self-conscious about what they see as flaws--but when they meet they help each other turn what seem at first to be problems into superpowers, and so become good friends.
66) Frankie's world
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
258 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frankie is different from everyone in her class, and she can't figure out why. She has trouble concentrating, and her classmates tease her for not having a dad at home. To try to make sense of the world, Frankie doodles her daily adventures in a journal. One day, when Frankie sneaks into her mom's room and sees her biological father's name on her birth certificate, she decides to go on a mission to track him down. Could Frankie's father be the key...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grand adventure stories often begin where you least expect, Iris knows this because she's read them all. However, as a thirteen-year-old stuck in the tiny country town of Bugden, real adventure seems a distant dream. That doesn't bother Sam, Iris' best friend. For him, catching bugs and swimming in the lake is exciting enough. But when Iris and Sam stumble upon an unusually dry river on the outskirts of town, they're led to a discovery beyond anything...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Michael and his grandmother board a train in Alabama for his first train ride, the conductor directs them to the "colored only" section. But when the train pulls out of Atlanta, the signs come down, and a boy from the "whites only" section runs up to Michael, inviting him to explore. How come Michael can go as he pleases in some states, but has to sit in segregated sections in others? Based on author Michael S. Bandy's own recollections of taking...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This astonishing, devastating debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. Ayosa is a wandering spirit- joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who...
72) Mighty inside
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants-especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere-not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two white men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane-is making...
Author
Series
Elle(s) volume 1
Publisher
Ablaze Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
91 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elle is just another teenage girl, most of the time. Bubbly and good-natured, she wastes no time making friends on her first day at her new school. But Elle has a secret: she hasn't come alone. She's brought with her a colorful mix of personalities, which come out when she least expects it. Who is Elle, really? And will her new friends stand by her when they find out the truth?"--
Author
Series
The little Paris collection volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered the opportunity for a job exchange with her Parisian friend Sophie, saying yes is a no-brainer--after all, what kind of romantic would turn down six months in Paris? Sarah is sure she's in for the experience of a lifetime--days spent surrounded by literature in a gorgeous bookshop, and the chance to watch the snow fall on the Eiffel Tower. Plus, now she can meet up with her journalist boyfriend, Ridge, when...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Edición en español.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"¡Han caído los primeros copos de nieve! Con la llegada del frío, los animales se preparan para hibernar en sus guaridas. El oso y sus amigos buscan comida en el bosque para pasar el largo invierno, pero el oso tiene tanta hambre que quiere quedarse con todas las bayas. ¿Será capaz de compartirlas son sus amigos?" --Back cover.
"A beautifully illustrated book, with a heart-warming story about friendship and the importance of sharing with others....
76) Mercury Boys
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Saskia Brown, an outsider at her new school, discovers that she can use liquid mercury to visit boys in daguerreotypes in her dreams, and soon classmates are doing the same, with terrible consequences.
After her parents' divorce and a cross-country move, Saskia Brown feels like an outsider at her new school: she's a transplant, biracial in a population of mostly white students. While visiting her only friend at her part-time library...
77) A family affair
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
Author
Publisher
Querelle Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Desire Lines, a Black teenager growing up gay in Brooklyn is captivated by a vision of life on the other side of the river, where the sparkle and glitter of Manhattan beckon. Coming into adulthood, he finds himself living in a five-floor walk-up in Hell's Kitchen just as the AIDS epidemic is hitting the city. We follow him and his group of friends as they experience the first wave of illness and death, and then accompany him on a two-year journey...
79) Clique here
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From middle-grade darling Anna Staniszewski comes the story of a girl who might just have being popular down to a science. Lily loves science and hanging out with her best friend, Katie. But after a really embarrassing incident, she jumps at the chance to switch schools. She's ready to start over. With the scientific process, anything is possible! After a summer spent coming up with theories and prepping for the switch, Lily starts her new school...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal,...
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