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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Gretchen has always been more of a "least likely" than a "most likely" kind of girl. So how does she somehow find herself living out every trope from her favorite rom-coms . . . ? The Best Friend Crush: Why is it suddenly so hard to act normal around her childhood BFF, Samuel? Must be time for a- Makeover(!): Black leather pants and some red lipstick are apparently enough to lend Gretchen the bravado to do an impromptu set at a comedy club and catch...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing bond that becomes a gripping allegory of the forces that have divided "brothers" in much of Europe since World War II. Kristof's postmodern saga begins...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What will my life be like? Will I be happy? Will I ever be able to reach the stars? There are no answers to these questions, but in this eloquent picture book Britta Teckentrup lets children know that they are not alone in asking them and gives parents an opportunity to start a conversation with their children about the questions that come up in their lives. A young girl stands on a chair to see what it's like to be tall. A boy stares towards the...
24) The dream weaver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--
25) Summer fires
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Rachel and Sylvia are faced with the tough choices of teenage life, which mirror the fires in the surrounding hillsides of their typical Italian town, as one decision or another leads to unsettled feelings and desires.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Description
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
Jack Morton has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he'd do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser's homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these two poles, the book maps Walser's outer and inner wanderings in various narrative modes. Here you find him writing in the persona of a girl composing an essay on the seasons,...
28) Private lessons
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay likes herself best when she plays her father's old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness of missing him - and from her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. After placing third in a local competition, and with hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul's world and his way of digging...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to keeping her thoughts to herself--in school, where her boyfriend does the talking for her, and at home, where it's impossible to compete with her older siblings and high-powered parents. When she mistakenly walks into a stand-up comedy club and performs, the experience is surprisingly cathartic. After the show, she meets Mo, an aspiring comic who's everything Izzy's not: bold, confident, comfortable in her skin. Mo...
Author
Series
Khourdi trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
" Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro dares to challenge convention, ignoring the taunts of peers, her mother's scolds, and her own changing body. Spirited and carefree, she loves to run until her lungs burst: to feel the strength of her lithe limbs, to relish the freedom she cherishes, to honor the friends forced by propriety to conform. Though she...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated town that closely resembles the West Bank, thirteen-year-old Joshua discovers that his world may not be as it seems; that his people may be aggressors rather than victims; and that he must stand up to his stepfather and forge his own sense of right and wrong.
34) If you, then me
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Dealing with a vindictive nemesis at Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley, Xia gets some help from her idol while trying to decide between two very different boys.
36) Dazzling
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back. It's an itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny,...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected.
Author
Publisher
Ink & Blood
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"French Vietnamese writer Line Papin's stunning English-language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without explanation from the sunshine and chaos of Hà Nội at the age of ten, the narrator finds herself adrift in the unfamiliar, gray world of France and grappling with a deep sense of uncertainty about who she is and where she...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift her Irish immigrant father gave her before he died. She finds solace in “The Kingdom,” a stand of red oak and thick mountain laurel near her home in suburban Pennsylvania, where she can escape from her large and unruly family and share menthol cigarettes and lukewarm beers with her best friend. One night, while driving home,...
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