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"Secretly hooking up with popular cheerleader Karla Ortega, who repeatedly snubs him in public, multicultural geek and nerd club member Cameron Carson meets Mackenzie Briggs, who isn't afraid to be herself, and unexpectedly bonds with this girl who accepts him for who he is"--
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English
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English
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"An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world"--
5) Chlorine sky
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Harlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with marriage prospects but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting an arranged marriage with him.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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In this historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood, three very different girls from varying social stratums find common ground as they each make a promise to not just accept things as they are anymore.
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holly Mathews lives at a retirement home for the super wealthy that her mother manages on expensive Mercer Island, but when she meets Malik Buchannan, grandson of one of the residents, she allows him to think that she just visiting, so he will accept heras belonging to his A-list world--it is just supposed to be a summer fling, but soon she finds herself falling in love.
11) Two boys kissing
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
12) Wonder
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Series
[Wonder series] volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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NYT - Children’s Middle Grade
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade E-Book
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade E-Book
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
13) How we roll
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After developing alopecia, Quinn lost her friends along with her hair, and after an accident, former football player Jake lost his legs and confidence, but the two help each other believe in themselves and the possibility of love.
14) Calling Ukraine
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Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday in 2018, John Turner accepts a job offer from an old college friend to move to Ukraine to teach customer service agents there how to sound American, but with no knowledge of the language and struggling to understand the culture and customs, he finds himself in a romantic entanglement with disastrous consequences.
15) Firefly Lane
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the 'coolest girl in the world' moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all--beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be, but they make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable....
16) Not a unicorn
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Language
English
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Eighth-grader Jewel has all the usual middle school problems (crush on an unattainable boy, ex-BFF), but the thing that is making life a torment at school is the horn growing out of her forehead, which cannot be removed simply; she has two friends she can depend on and an invisible unicorn companion, but she would really like to be normal in time to read her essay in regional French speaking competition--and maybe she has found a doctor who can do...
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With many different disabilities, these kids talk about their challenges and hopes for the future, including the importance of acceptance and accessibility so they can live their best lives.
18) In 27 days
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Hadley Jamison meets a man who identifies himself as Death at Archer Morales' funeral, he gives her the opportunity to go back in time and prevent Archer's suicide, which she accepts.
19) School squad
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Series
Popularity pact volume 2
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Picking up where The Popularity Pact: Camp Clique left off, the second book in this exciting duology finds former best friends Bea and Maisy preparing for the new school year. Bea kept up her end of the bargain, getting Maisy "in" with the girls at camp. Now it's Maisy's turn to fulfill her promise to ingratiate Bea with the popular girls. When Bea is accepted into this new inner circle, she begins to lose sight of what true friendship is all about....
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English
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Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The ... result is [this book], a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant...
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