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1) Hero-type
Author
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 25
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
Author
Series
Not-so-ordinary girl trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Marylander Fiona Finkelstein tries to deal with stage-fright, missing her mother who is an actress in California, and hoping that her father, a television meteorologist, does not get in trouble when she antagonizes the anchorman.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 19
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
During fall semester of her junior year of high school, Alice decides to change her good girl image, while major remodeling begins at home and some important relationships begin to change.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Told through four viewpoints, sisters Des, Bea, Kat, and Vi, aged nineteen to fifteen, are each transformed, especially in how they see one another, in the last summer before Bea leaves for college.
As the oldest, Des shoulders a lot of responsibility for her family and their independent bookstore. Except it's hard to dream big when she's so busy taking care of everyone else. Vi has a crush on the girl next door. It makes her happy and nervous,...
Author
Series
Not-so-ordinary girl trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fiona Finkelstein does not get along with Milo, a new student in her Ordinary, Maryland, fourth-grade class, and when he starts a meteorology club she responds by trying to start a matchmaking club.
8) Just flirt
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A secret blog brings lies, lawsuits, and love to a self-proclaimed "Superflirt," a judgmental outcast, and a boyfriend-stealing bully at a struggling Maryland campground.
10) The journey back
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After breaking out of juvenile detention, fourteen-year-old Digger stops his trek across Maryland at a campground where he recovers from injuries, cares for little Luke, works with smart and pretty Nora, and begins to understand how his behavior and choices shape his life.
11) Nine days
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tenth-graders Ethan and Ti-Anna go to Hong Kong seeking her father, an exiled Chinese democracy activist who has disappeared, and follow his trail to Vietnam and back, also uncovering illegal activity along the way. Includes author's note and the history behind the novel written by the girl who inspired it.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives―someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka’s mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has...
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