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181) The moon by night
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
"As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough -- what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, an orphan taken in by the Austins two years ago, has gone to live with her legal guardian. And the rest of Vicky's family is moving from their quiet house in the country to the heart of New York City....
Author
Series
Jojo and Bowbow volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's Miley's birthday, and she's having a sparkle-themed party! It will be held at an indoor ice-skating rink, and she got custom sparkle skates from her grandma as an early birthday gift. She and her friends will skate all day! JoJo has spent weeks making the perfect glittery decorations for the rink. But when Miley breaks her ankle the week before her party, her mom has to cancel the big bash. Never fear-JoJo, Jacob, Kyra, and Grace to the rescue!...
Author
Series
Shuri (Nic Stone) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
For centuries, the Chieftain of Wakanda (the Black Panther) has gained his powers through the juices of the Heart-Shaped Herb. Much like Vibranium, the Heart-Shaped Herb is essential to the survival and prosperity of Wakanda. But something is wrong. The plants are dying. No matter what the people of Wakanda do, they can't save them. And their supply is running short. It's up to Shuri to travel from Wakanda in order to discover what is killing the...
184) Burned
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It all started with a dream. Nothing exceptional, just a typical fantasy about a boy, the kind of dream that most teen girls experience. But Pattyn Von Stratten is not like most teen girls. Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, a simple dream may not be exactly a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation. This dream is a first step for Pattyn. But is it to hell or to a better life? For the first time Pattyn starts...
185) Warrior of the wild
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An eighteen-year-old chieftain's daughter must find a way to kill her village's oppressive deity if she ever wants to return home in this Viking-inspired YA standalone fantasy from Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King. How do you kill a god? As her father's chosen heir, eighteen-year-old Rasmira has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. But when her coming-of-age trial is sabotaged and she fails the...
Author
Series
Jojo and Bowbow volume 7
Publisher
Nickelodeon/Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When JoJo introduces Kyra to her fashion designer idol, Goldie Chic, Kyra's starstruck. Kyra wants to be just like Goldie when she grows up! JoJo and Kyra quickly fall for Goldie's wild but adorable three-year-old daughter, Lacey. So when Goldie offers to give Kyra feedback on her own fashion designs in exchange for babysitting, Kyra agrees in an instant--feedback from a successful designer is invaluable, and Lacey is the cutest! After an initially...
187) You know I'm no good
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen™--she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If...
188) Freeks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Gideon Davorin's Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act. Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night. When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need...
189) Learning to breathe
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Indira Ferguson has done her best to live by her Grammy's rules-to study hard in school, be respectful, and to never let a boy take advantage of her. But it hasn't always been easy, especially while living in her mother's shadow. When Indy is sent to live with distant relatives in Nassau, trouble follows her. Now she must hide an unwanted pregnancy from her aunt, who would rather throw Indy out onto the street than see the truth. Completely broke...
190) Full disclosure
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time things got ugly. As Simone and Miles start going...
Author
Series
Devil and her love song volume 7
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"As Maria begins to recall bits and pieces of her tragic past, Yusuke tells her that he'll stay by her side and support her, no matter what. Meanwhile, Maria still hopes to reconcile with Anna, so she enrolls in the same music school that Anna attends. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like Anna wants Maria's help or friendship" -- from publisher's web site.
192) Will & Whit
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Wilhelmina "Will" Huxstep is a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy. She crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark. As she wraps up another summer in her mountain town, she longs for unplugged adventures with her fellow creative friends, Autumn, Noel, and Reese. Little does she know that she will get her wish in the form of an arts carnival and a blackout, courtesy of a hurricane named Whitney, which...
193) For Lamb
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it don a bathrobe and transform into her mom. Thrilled to discover she comes from a line of werewolves, Artie asks her mom to share everything--including the story of Artie's late father. Her mom reluctantly agrees. And to help Artie figure out her wolflike abilities, she recruits some old family friends. Artie thrives in her new community and even develops...
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Claire's best friend, Bess, moves away, she becomes the only girl left in her entire school. At first, she thinks she'll be able to deal with this -- after all, the girls' bathroom is now completely hers, so she can turn it into her own private headquarters and draw on the walls. When it comes to soccer games or sailing races, she can face off against any boy. The problem is that her other best friend, Henry, has begun to ignore her. And Webby,...
196) Big boned
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lori Palmer is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, "beach' bodies, and thigh gaps above all else, which is so not her. She misses her old school, where her artistic talent was more important to her peers than a chia smoothie recipe ever was. Uncomfortable in her own size-sixteen skin, Lori decides to survive senior year as best she can by blending into the background while she melts in the summer heat. But her plans...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She's waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don't tell them that), she's going to live it up. There's just one thing that could ruin it: Her best friend, Hailee, finding out Andrea's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words, but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows that words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chips shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken, too: he once was a child soldier, forced to do terrible,...
199) Shadow girl
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The house on Arrow Island is full of mystery. Yet, when Mei arrives, she can't help feeling relieved. She's happy to spend the summer in an actual mansion tutoring a rich man's daughter if it means a break from her normal life-her needy mother, her delinquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved. What she doesn't know is that something is very wrong in the Morison household....
Author
Series
Haunting of Sunshine girl volume 3
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Is Sunshine Griffith who she thinks she is? Now that her luiseach powers are fully awakened, and having barely survived an abyss full of demons at the end of Book Two, Sunshine must figure out who-or what-has been organizing the forces of darkness against her. Thanks to her brainiac boyfriend, Nolan, they not only unearth that Sunshine's death would trigger a calamitous event, but that all civilization depends on her survival. So when an unexpected...
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