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2018.
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314 pages ; 22 cm
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"In Makersville, Indiana, people know all about fifteen-year-old Ronney--he's from that mixed-race family with the dad who tried to kill himself, the pill-popping mom, and the genius kid sister. Can Ronney figure out a way to hold it together as all his worlds fall apart?"--
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"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm
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Teens Naima Rodriguez, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and Dew Brickman, who has social anxiety, bond over their mutual loss of both parents.
Naima Rodriguez is trying to manage her complex OCD and GAD as she grieves her father, her hero-- a fallen Marine. She wants everyone to back the-eff off while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her. Dew Brickman...
8) Mirror Girls
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
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Dog whisperer volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
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216 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal Maine home, and as she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange psychic connection.
11) Learned by heart
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant,...
12) What lane?
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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125 pages ; 22 cm
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"Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement." --
13) Fractured Path
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Series
Mirror (Disney Hyperion) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In San Francisco in 1965, eighteen-year-old Blake Estancia searches the city for magical relics tied to her family's curse, reclaiming her dormant abilities along the way and barely managing to keep a step ahead of a murderous secret society.
14) Gigi and Ojiji
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
16) Miracle's boys
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Pub. Date
2000
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133 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
17) New from here
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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361 pages ; 22 cm
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Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
18) A duet for home
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"It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together...
19) All together now
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Eagle Rock trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
20) The way of love
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Willamette brides volume 2
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Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured on his ship, she uses her skills to tend his wound, and a friendship grows between them. Andrew admires her strength and willingness to...
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