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1) The squad
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
270 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"It's eight grade and Christina and her besties, Megan and Leanne, are once again going through the brutal trials of cheerleading tryouts. This year, Christina feels more confident: She dresses in her own style and has amazing friends, even her first crush. But what if the girls don't all make the squad? Worse than that, Christina learns her parents' marriage is collapsing. Suddenly, her family, her future, and her identity seem in total freefall....
2) Ready or not
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
329 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"With senior year finally behind them, Cassie and her three best friends are on their way to what's next. Like their parents, the crew has always been inseparable: there's Marcy, the artist, for whom style is self-expression and sarcasm is a love language; Aaron, the future lawyer, whose good humor balances out his competitive streak; Nico, the musician, whose flirtatiousness, obliviousness, and recent interest in a rising senior are becoming increasingly...
3) Leap
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
295 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
A coming-of-age graphic novel following two dancers at a conservative performing arts school--exploring friendship, first love, and what it means to fall out of step with your own dreams. Ana has been studying contemporary dance since she was little, but her heart isn't in it anymore. Instead her focus is on Carina--a beautiful, ambitious ballerina whose fear of being outed keeps Ana in the closet and their fragile relationship from seeing the light...
Author
Series
Eat your heart out volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
102 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Blanca is running away. Away from her mother--the overbearing and strict Reina--and her mother's narrow idea of what shape Blanca's life should take. While Reina finds Blanca's dream of pursuing fashion design a wasteful flight of fancy, Blanca sees possibility . . . and she knows if she doesn't leave now, she might never. Of course, following your passion isn't easy, and when Blanca arrives in New York City without a job or a roof over her head,...
6) Skip!
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
249 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Jay often feels that like they are a nobody. Beah, on the other hand, is fierce, charming, athletic--and OBSESSED with the street skipping art, Double Dutch. But Jay's friendship with their new bestie Beah is intense, both in and out of Double Dutch. As Beah and Jay help each other grow into the people they will become, it challenges their friendship and their own identities."--
7) Girlmode
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Description
"The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and no guidebook on how to be a girl, that isn't going to be easy. Enter Mackenize Ishikawa. She's the girl all girls want to be and all boys want to be with--and,...
8) A-Okay
Author
Series
A-okay volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm
Description
"A-Okay by Jarad Greene is a vulnerable and heartfelt semi-autobiographical middle grade graphic novel about acne, identity, and finding your place." -- Amazon.com.
9) Brownstone
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Description
In the summer of 1995, almost-fifteen-year-old Almudena is sent to live with her estranged Spanish-speaking father, and together they renovate a brownstone and build a relationship while Almudena navigates the Latin American side of her heritage for the first time.
10) The new girl
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with this funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel about change. Goodbye, old life... Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania -- the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first period. As if things weren't difficult enough! Now Lia...
11) Ash's cabin
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change. Even Ash's family seems to be sleepwalking through life. The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa Edwin. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin, deep in the California wilderness. Did he ever build it? What if it's still there, waiting for...
12) Turning twelve
Author
Series
Growing pangs volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
235 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Katie turns 12 and finally has her first crush, but growing up is much more complicated than Katie thought it would be"--
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