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1) Omar rising
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English
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
TAB 2023: Gunston
TAB 2023: Swanson
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
TAB 2023: Gunston
TAB 2023: Swanson
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"Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school"--
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English
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Pudge and Prejudice is an homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, transported to the fictitious Northfield Texas High School in the year 1984. After moving to Northfield with her family, Elyse Nebbit faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse’s effortlessly beautiful older sister Jayne starts dating Charlie Bingley, the captain of the school football team,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Jude Winters is dealing with ADHD while trying to figure out how to tell their old-fashioned grandparents about their nonbinary status--but now they have another problem: Stevie, a previously popular girl at school has been ostracized because she has a crush on another girl, and Jude wants to help her cope as well.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Although on opposite sides of every social hierarchy their friends and families can imagine, including race, class, and social status, popular Ash Gupta, the son of wealthy, immigrant Asian-Indian parents, and anti-social Eden Moore, whose biggest goal is to escape her family's poverty and trailer-park existence, grow close as they compete to become class valedictorian.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood, three very different girls from varying social stratums find common ground as they each make a promise not just to accept things as they are anymore.
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Series
Hagenheim volume 8
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and alone, Aladdin travels from the streets of his Arab homeland to a strange, faraway place. Growing up in an orphanage, he meets young Lady Kirstyn, whose father is the powerful Duke of Hagenheim. Despite the difference in their stations, Aladdin quickly becomes Kirstyn's favorite companion, and their childhood friendship grows into a bond that time and opposition cannot break. Even as a child, Aladdin works hard, learning all he can from...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Simran "Simi" Sangha comes from a long line of Indian vichole -- matchmakers -- with a rich history for helping parents find good matches for their grown children. When Simi accidentally sets up her cousin and a soon-to-be lawyer, her family is thrilled that she has the "gift." But Simi is an artist, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with relationships, helicopter parents, and family drama. That is, until she realizes this...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Flare is power. With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground -- and seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis wants her fair share. Ingrid doesn't have a family fortune, monetary or magical, but at least she has a plan: Rise to the top on the arm of Linden Holt, heir to a hefty political legacy and the largest fortune of flare in all of Candesce. Her only obstacle is Linden's father who refuses...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Food for Thought: Teens
Lunch with a Librarian
Titles Worth Trying: Romance [High School]
Food for Thought: Teens
Lunch with a Librarian
Titles Worth Trying: Romance [High School]
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If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. Not ideal. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. She loves art and dreams pursuing...
Author
Series
The Superlatives volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this sexy conclusion to The Superlatives trilogy from Endless Summer author Jennifer Echols, Sawyer and Kaye might just be perfect for each other-if only they could admit it. As vice president of Student Council, Kaye knows the importance of keeping order. Not only in school, but in her personal life. Which is why she and her boyfriend, Aidan, already have their lives mapped out: attend Columbia University together, pursue banking careers, and...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare, bringing single-minded ambition, narcissism, manipulation, and jealousy to new extremes in this outrageous, satirical twist on the coming-of-age novel. She's got a hot jock boyfriend in Christopher Patrick Caparelli, her best friend Stef Campbell by her side, and she's a SENIOR,...
12) Perfectly Parvin
Author
Series
Perfectly Parvin volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
For Fans of Olivia Rodrigo
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
For Fans of Olivia Rodrigo
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"Parvin Mohammadi has just been dumped--only days after receiving official girlfriend status. Not only is she heartbroken, she's humiliated. Enter high school heartthrob Matty Fumero, who just might be the smoking-hot cure to all her boy problems. If Parvin can get Matty to ask her to Homecoming, she's positive it will prove to herself and her ex that she's girlfriend material after all. There's just one problem: Matty is definitely too cool for bassoon-playing,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and big bank accounts. But Phoenix doesn't want big; she just wants home. The trouble is, she doesn't know where that is...until the Hong Kong protest movement unfolds, and she learns the city she's come to love is in danger of disappearing. Seventeen-year-old...
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