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161) Tough as Lace
Author
Publisher
WEST 44 BOOKS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lacey 'Lace' Stewart knows who she is. She's the star of her high school's lacrosse team, she's confident and brash, and she doesn't seem to worry about what other people think. Lace tries hard in school, works weekends at a coffee shop, and is counting on a lacrosse scholarship for college. She's got it all figured out. At least that's what she shows everyone at school. But underneath her brave face, she's battling deep-seated anxiety, and she's...
162) Everywhere blue
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie, who suffers from anxiety, loves music, math, and everything in its place, but when her older brother Strum disappears from his college campus, her family starts slipping away from her.
163) Not hungry
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
June is fat. June also has an eating disorder, but no one sees. When she doesn't eat, her friends and family think they see a fat girl on a diet, not someone starving herself. When June's secret is found out by Toby, the new boy next door, she is panicked. Then she learns he also has a secret. Everyone has their own little lies. -- from Amazon.
164) Junk boy
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Junk. That’s what the kids at school call Bobby Lang, mostly because his rundown house looks like a junkyard, but also because they want to put him down. Trying desperately to live under the radar at school―and at the home he shares with his angry, neglectful father―Bobby develops a sort of proud loneliness. The only buffer between him and the uncaring world is his love of the long, wooded trail between school and home. Life grinds along quietly...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
scream so that one day a hundred years from now another sister will not have to dry her tears wondering where in history she lost her voice... The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn't always hear her and tells the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America. Delving into current cultural conversations including...
166) Hourglass
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Exquisitely crafted, richly imagined, and as funny as it is moving, Hourglass is an unusual and uniquely told love story. Turning time upside down, it combs the wreckage of personal heartbreak for something universal and asks what it means to lose what you love."--
167) Coaltown Jesus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Walker shouldnt have been so surprised to find Jesus standing in the middle of his bedroom. After all, hed prayed for whoever was up there to help him, and to help his mom, who hadnt stopped crying since Noah died two months ago. But since when have prayers actually been answered? And since when has Jesus been so irreverent?" - Amazon.com
168) Manning up
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jack is at the top of his game. He's a senior running back on the football team, dominating every opponent in his way. To everyone else, Jack is totally in control. In reality, he struggles with an eating disorder that controls every aspect of his daily life. When Jack starts using steroids, he feels invincible, but will the steroids help him win the big game, or will he lose everything he's ever worked for?"--Provided by publisher.
169) Ebb & flow
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"One summer, after a long plane ride and a rotten bad year I went to Grandma Jo's. It was my mother's idea. Jett, what you need is a change of scenery. I think she needed a change of scenery, too. One without me. Because that rotten bad year? That was my fault." Thus begins the poignant story, told in free verse, of eleven-year-old Jett. Last year, Jett and his mother had moved to a new town for a fresh start after his father went to jail. But Jett...
170) Every body looking
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it’s the first time she’s ever been so far from her family—and the first time that she’s been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past—her mother’s struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father’s attempts to make a home...
171) I am here now
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1960's. Maisie's first day of high school should be exciting, but all she wants is to escape the world: an abusive mother and a father who is rarely there to help. Finding refuge in her art, Maisie meets Rachel and her mother, a painter. She catches a glimpse of a very different world-- full of life, creativity, and love-- and latches on. But as she discovers her strengths through Rachel's family, Maisie finds herself risking new friendships, and...
172) Chiara in the dark
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Chiara is gliding through her senior year with ease, with a great babysitting job, a loyal best friend, a loving Indian-Italian immigrant family, and a shot at the summer ice-skating camp of her dreams. Then, out of nowhere, she starts having violent and unwanted thoughts and obsessions. The thoughts won't leave Chiara alone, making her wonder if she's a bad, violent person. Chiara decides to get help through therapy, but the idea of talking about...
173) Blood brothers
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Calvin Johnston's secret is out. He and his brothers are tainted. Untouchable. And the bad blood flowing through their veins is threatening to kill them. So are some of their neighbors in Ashland, the "Friendliest Little Town" in Florida. The Johnston brothers are kicked out of everything--school, baseball, scouts, even church. Ashland's anger has erupted into the fireball of hate. The only silver lining is that Calvin's best friend Izzy lives 65...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society-picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups-The Call-Out also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service...
176) Little pills
Author
Publisher
WEST 44 Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Navarro never asked to be anyone's hero. If you're a hero, your sister isn't supposed to hate you. And you're definitely not supposed to get hooked on Gramma's painkillers. Even so, Charlotte's sister's friend Mia looks at her like she's some sort of hero. As Charlotte starts taking pills more and more, she has to question how it could hurt herself and others, even Mia. Is it a harmless habit or a dangerous addiction?...
177) Sick girl secrets
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Sometimes in high school, all you want is to be invisible. Being invisible might be the biggest problem of all for Natalie. She has a disability that causes chaos to her body on the inside but leaves her unmarked on the outside. She's learned to hide her pain so well that you would never guess she's not the same Natalie as she was before she got sick. But after having surgery, Natalie must return to school in a wheelchair. Now, Natalie has to decide...
178) All of me
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations." --
Author
Series
Kids under the stairs volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bellows—who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test—and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class. But these kids aren't dumb—they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them: they simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands. Soon, the kids win over Ms. J with their passion...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
As a little boy, Rubén Darío loved to listen to his great uncle, a man who told tall tales in a booming, larger-than-life voice. Rubén quickly learned the magic of storytelling, and discovered the rapture and beauty of verse. A restless and romantic soul, Rubén traveled across Central and South America seeking adventure and connection. As he discovered new places and new loves, he wrote poems to express his wild storm of feelings. But the traditional...
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