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Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning YA contemporary novel about a Black teenager whose life is turned upside down when her white best friend becomes the latest "Becky" on the internet, and their town is left reeling from the publicity"--
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
4) Bounce Back
Author
Series
Bounce Back volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
261 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lilico's life in Japan is going well. She has great friends and is the captain of the school's basketball team. She's happy! Then comes her parents' news: they're moving to America! Before she knows it, Lilico finds herself forced to start all over. And that won't be easy with her closest friends thousands of miles away and a school bully who immediately dislikes her.
Luckily, anime-loving Nala and Henry eventually befriend Lilico. With help from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In WWII Poland, two sisters fight against the darkness engulfing their homeland, one by entering a daring network of women sheltering Jewish children and the other by joining the ranks of Poland's secret army. As Warsaw buckles under German oppression, they must rely on the courage that calls the ordinary to resist"--
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
Author
Series
D'Angelos volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tasting wine is not enough: sommelier Giovanni D'Angelo wants to create it. To put his family first, he's always deferred his dreams-a vineyard to run, a woman to marry. But a three-week vineyard tour in Italy could set him back on track. For Emma Rutledge, wine is in her blood. Intent to run the family wine business one day, she finds that the men in her family are only intent to push her out of it. But that's fine-she's got a plan. When Gio and...
Publisher
Fox Chapel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
English language edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for beginner to advanced scrollers, this must-have project guide will walk you through how to scroll saw fifteen interactive wooden toys kids will love. Using minimal tools and food-safe finishes, the featured scroll saw projects have a contemporary aesthetic and are truly unique to engage children in new and exciting ways. Also included are helpful overviews on materials and tools, including how to use sandpaper, drills, a square, a plane,...
Author
Series
Bounce Back volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma can't help comparing herself to her bright and popular older sister, Julia. Try as she might, Emma can't seem to please her mom as much as her sister does. The more Emma measures herself against Julia and others, the more pressure she feels to try to change. But trying to be as good as everyone else at everything is exhausting and frustrating.
With help from her friends and basketball teammates, as well as Lexi, the french bulldog she's dogsitting,...
10) Saving Grayson
Author
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring fiction story from the bestselling author of War RoomGrayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to right a terrible injustice-he just can't remember what it is.Convinced of the importance of his mission, he embarks on a journey to the small West Virginia town of his childhood hoping he can put...
11) We still belong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Shaindy Goodman feels awkward, over-looked. Across the street and in another league, elegant Gayil, lives the life of a queen bee, gorgeous, liked and admired, the perfect Bais Yaakov Middle School girl. Even her school uniform looks chic. So it's more than a shock when Shaindy sees Gayil in the window looking at her and holding a sign with five little words: want to know a secret?
Gayil's found a way to break into their school after hours; and asks...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate...only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics. Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
James Henry hasn’t been the same since that fateful night at the lighthouse when his momma went into the sea. Now months later, he is barely able to leave the house without having a panic attack, and talking to people, well, that’s just too hard. His feisty twin sister Hattie intervenes on his behalf again and again—protecting him from neighborhood bullies and an uncle who just wants him to snap out of it.
But it's 1939, and without a local...
Author
Publisher
Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nothing has gone right for Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting, he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions within...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What if you switched places with your cat?
After falling prey to her friends' bullying one too many times, Poppy makes a wish for an easier life--and it comes true in a very unexpected way: she swaps bodies with her cat, Mitten Man.
Mayhem ensures as Poppy attempts to navigate the wilds of the wilderness as a cat. Now not only can she understand all animals--grasshoppers speak in rhyming couplets that only foretell doom--but she has to rescue a turtle...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Maddie and Chloe have always been best friends--until last year, when Chloe's popularity and budding fame as an actor left Maddie in the dust one too many times. Their friendship is over, and they're both ready to move on. But when the girls arrive at theater camp, they discover that the universe isn't ready to let go of this friendship just yet: they're cabinmates, and each of them has to spend the summer with her ex-best friend. Is it time to try...
19) Good Different
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Selah knows her rules for being normal. And she always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to tear off her normal person mask the second she gets home from school and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it.
Until the...
20) Witness: stories
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see?
In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with, stand up for, care for, and remember...