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(0)Julie Halpern
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Language
English
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Description
Julie Halpern's Maternity Leave tells the profane, profound and just plain funny story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby but her maternity leave proves otherwise.
Thirty-six-year-old Annie Schwartz-Jensen is a middle school teacher on maternity leave-a time she imagined as uninterrupted, blissful bonding with her baby. Instead she is dealing with her body leaking from every possible orifice, a baby who won't sleep, a husband...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Anna Bloom has just come home from a three-week stay in a mental hospital. She feels...okay. It's time to get back to some sort of normal life, whatever that means. She has to go back to school, where teachers and friends are dying to know what happened to her, but are too afraid to ask. And, Anna is dying to know what's going on back at the hospital with her crush, Justin, but is too afraid to ask. Meanwhile, Anna's parents aren't getting along,...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the first day of Lillian's summer-before-college, she gets a message on her cell from her sort-of friend, Penny. Not only has Penny faked her own kidnapping, but Lil is the only one who figures it out. She knows that Penny's home life has been rough, and that her boyfriend may be abusive. Soon, Penny's family, the local police, and even the FBI are grilling Lil, and she decides to head out to Oregon, where Penny has mentioned an acquaintance. And...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Anna Bloom is depressed–so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here, she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her.
But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn’t supposed to be about
making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it?
In her fiction...
But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn’t supposed to be about
making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it?
In her fiction...
6) Meant to be
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where the name of one's meant to be mate appears on one's chest at age eighteen, Aggy must decide whether to trust the phenomenon or follow her heart.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit the wild nerd yonder and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tenth graders Eliana and Dmitri could not be more different. He's an outgoing, self-confident drummer in a punk band called Unexpected Turbulence. Eliana is introspective and thoughtful, and a movie buff who is living with depression. Dmitri quite literally falls for Eliana when he sees her in gym class and slams into a classmate. The pair then navigate the ins and outs of first love. Exciting, scary, unexpected, and so much more difficult than they...