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English
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When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner's summer isn't going the way she'd planned. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. She hasn't been able to manage her mother's growing issues with anxiety. And now she's been rejected from an art show because her work "has no heart." So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings, Abby isn't going to take any chances. Which is where the list comes in. Abby gives...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A young girl splits her time between Mommy's house and Daddy's apartment, which he shares with his partner Harry, but when Mommy picks her up on Daddy's day the girl becomes sullen, not realizing Daddy has a wonderful surprise waiting for her at home.
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Series
Publisher
Child's Play Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bea loves lions and knows everything there is to know about them. She lives by the beach, but she doesn't like sand one little bit! One day, her mother persuades her to visit the beach, where she meets a sand sculpture of a lion who is afraid of water. Their developing friendship helps each of them to overcome their anxieties, but the next day the lion has disappeared! How will Bea cope?"--Inside front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Xiaokes father planted a peach tree in his old hutong neighborhood. To Xiaoke, the tree is his brother, his peach tree brother. Now the old neighborhood is being torn down and the tree is marked for destruction. Will Xiaoke be able to save the tree in time?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lavender sees herself as the miserable but tough outsider at school, while Scarlet knows she is talented and popular, but insecure on the inside--then, on their mutual thirteenth birthday, they wake up in each other's bodies and are forced to learn what it means to walk in someone else's shoes.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was "the pretty one "and her best friend Olivia Pelham was "the smart one." Throughout high school, they were inseparable ... until a vicious rumor about Olivia-- a rumor too close to the truth--ended their friendship. Now, on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion, they're about to get together again and resume an old friendship.
Author
Series
Spirit bear volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world.
12) One true way
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc., an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Daniel Boone Middle School in the 1970s, where teachers and coaches must hide who they are, and girls who like girls are forced to question their own choices. Presented in the voice of a premier storyteller, One True Way sheds exquisite light on what it means to be different, while at the same time being wholly true to oneself. Through the lives and influences of two girls, readers come to see that love is love is love. Set against the...
Author
Series
Donut dreams volume 4
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Casey thought that coming back from sleepaway camp would mean picking up right where she left off. But when she gets home, it seems like everyone has changed at least a little bit--even her BFF Lindsay. Not only that, she made a new friend at camp, a boy named Matt. Casey can't decide for sure if she likes him as a friend, or if she like-likes him. And Casey's middle school has a tough assistant principal...her mom! With so many changes stirring...
Author
Series
Meet me on Mercer Street volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring artist Kacie spends most of her time on Mercer Street with her best friend Nisha, but one day Nisha and her family are gone, and Kacie struggles to understand the changes happening to her street and neighborhood, and what they mean for her life."--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Alone on his lot, a sturdy little house has stood for as long as anyone can remember, stoically weathering the storms. But one day, the wind brings change. One house, then another, is built off in the distance. Then a road is paved through his field, and more and more houses appear all around. The house closes his shutters to wait out this alarming development. But in the dark, the house notices he is no longer pushed by the snowdrifts or battered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Cassandra has a gift. Animals can show her what they're thinking. And she's done keeping her talent a secret. In the first volume of the Cassandra: Animal Psychic series, Cassandra sets out to help pets and their people. The trouble is, other parts of Cassandra's life are changing too. Her mom has a boyfriend she really likes, but his daughter can't stand Cassandra. And Cassandra's best friend is about to leave town. Not even her trusty dog Miss Dolly...
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