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301) Sun keep rising
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When rent increases put a teen mom at risk of losing her home, she resorts to a dangerous game to keep her family afloat. But all games have consequences, and this isn't one she can afford to lose. A gripping story about race, income instability, and the strength it takes to survive"--
302) Pritty
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the verge of summer before his senior year, Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be--tough, athletic, and in charge--Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American South
Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for "colored music" and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And, when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia,...
304) I was born for this
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Ark, a boy band, is the center of life for super-fan Fereshteh (A.K.A. Angel) Rahimi, transgender front man Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, and friend and bandmate Rowan, but their relationships become complicated when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's grandmother dies, she comes to realize there may be more...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Marty Pierce leaves small-town Kentucky for London, hoping to explore his sexuality and find work playing oboe, but homesickness, anxiety, and his dwindling savings worsen even as his dreams are coming true.
308) Voices
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
309) Loss of Innocence
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver were an inspiring and culture-shifting event in the history of LGBTQ2S+ culture and visibility. That Vancouver Summer is a fiction which takes place in the midst of an event which is reconstructed with careful detail by an author who was there. This is a story of self-discovery and romance for young adult readers today -- but it will also engage adult readers of historical fiction, sports fiction, LGBTQ2S+ fiction,...
312) The summer book club
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore’s summer book club—devoted entirely to romance novels—and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you’ve always wanted to be.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xvi, 220 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly. At first she is...
315) The cat's table
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the cat's table--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of insignificant adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury....
316) Fangirl: 2
Author
Publisher
VIZ Originals
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cath just wants to hang out with her twin sister and write fanfiction. But now that they're in college, her sister doesn't have time for her. And life keeps pulling Cath further and further out of her shell. For the first time ever, Cath has her own social circle. There's Nick, her handsome classmate who wants her to write short stories with him... And then Levi, who keeps showing up when she isn't looking for him... Actually...maybe Cath's circle...
317) Break this house
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally...
318) Healer and witch
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their medieval French village, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines...After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use magic to heal her mother's grief brooks tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves her village in search of a teacher"--
319) Powwow summer
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"River is teased about her indigenous heritage as a young girl, and she struggles with her identity. When she travels to spend the summer with her indigenous father and grandmother, she finds out what it means to be an 'urban Indian.' On her family's nearby reserve, she learns about the lives of indigenous people. River discovers a deep respect for and connection with the land and her cultural traditions. The highlight of her summer is attending the...
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