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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, this middle-grade historical novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy and his best friend as they attempt to stop a wall from being built at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, that would block the view of the baseball field from their rooftops. In 1930s Philadelphia, twelve-year-old Jimmy Frank and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Grace, having turned her back on religion when her father left, now finds herself praying for help with her home and love life, and especially with whether she should help a beloved elderly friend die with dignity.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Author
Series
Riley Reynolds volume 2
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends learn how small, simple parks can be just as important and fun as fancy new parks.
Author
Series
Riley Reynolds volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends are all in for Dress Like Your Favorite Character Day, but when everyone at school asks Riley for costume advice, they discover that the key to being a costume visionary is active listening and a big imagination.
8) Polo cowboy
Author
Series
Ghetto cowboy volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet--just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia's urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, where the players are rich, white, and stuck-up--all except Ruthie, the team's first and only girl, who's determined to show the others she can beat them at their own game. As Cole...
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After she is injured in a gang shooting, seventeen-year-old Alexis Duncan's dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish, but, encouraged by new student Aamani Chakrabarti, Alexis shifts her focus to the school's STEM quiz bowl team, a group of self-professed nerds seeking their own futures outside of West Philly.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists. When the fake feud lands them a reality...
12) Claws and effect
Author
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 2
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Dominique, Eric, Josephine, and Ajay return to the Smithsonian they see that modern animals are extinct and dinosaurs have been brought back to life, so they time travel to the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition to stop this wicked plot.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"There is an unspoken agreement between the racially divided towns of Bayside and Hamilton: no one steps over the train tracks that divide them. Or else. Not until Zach Whitman anyway, a white boy who moves in from Philly and who dreams of music. When he follows his dream across the tracks to meet his idol, the famous jazz musician who owns The Sunlight Record Shop in Hamilton, he’s flung into Capri Collins’s path. Capri has big plans: she wants...
14) Same difference
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.
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