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41) Pretty
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Though she appears confident, stylish, and easygoing at school, Sophie lives a nightmare at home. When her mother's alcohol addiction spirals out of control, Sophie's Auntie Amara steps in to help. She teaches Sophie new lessons about her family and heritage, while also challenging her to rethink how she feels about friends, boys, and even her sense of place in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she lives. -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Song of the current volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Caro and Markus must decide if their love is more important than the fate of Akhaia when a powerful Archon offers to help Markos fight for the throne if Markos will marry his daughter.
45) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
47) I'm big now!
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Still adjusting to her new role as big sister, a little girl tries to stay a baby for a little longer, but when her parents lovingly affirm her big-girl status, she starts to enjoy doing things her baby brother cannot.
48) The colors of us
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. --from Amazon.
50) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Hoping to earn money for band camp tuition, twelve-year-old Enly Wu Lewis starts busking, but his mission quickly turns into a series of misadventures that change how he sees his family, his dreams, and himself.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In the Florida projects, sixteen-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school, and bring him to the brink of suicide.
56) In search of us
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Relates the stories of Marilyn who, at age seventeen, fell in love with James, left her stage-mother, and set out on her own and Angie, her now seventeen-year-old daughter, who returns to Hollywood seeking her father.
57) Brown boy joy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomishia Booker
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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58) Somewhere among
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Emma's life in Tokyo changes for the worse when she and her American mother, who is pregnant, must move in with her Japanese grandmother the summer before 9/11 changes the world.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
60) New from here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
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