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Pub. Date
[2023]
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290 pages ; 22 cm
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While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected.
Hi, whoever is reading this. I'm Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy. Things used to be simple--until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting funny; everyone at school thinks I'm weird; and my mom...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Gracie feels like a minor character in her own life story--until a mysterious journal turns her fictional stories into reality. It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different. Shy and awkward, she has trouble fitting in at her new school, she's still reeling from her parents' divorce, and her grandmother Katherine's Alzheimer's is getting worse. So when Gracie finds a blank journal in Katherine's vanity drawer,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amy, Ty, Jack and Tim sacrifice Christmas at Heartland to save starving horses trapped by and avalanche in a remote mountain area, in the process bringing together and town and a family divided by a long-ago tragedy.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
483 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue.--
They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
225 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Middle schooler Yuna, born in America to Korean parents, struggles with feeling too Korean to fit in with her American peers at school. Frustrated with her fractured life and desperate to fit in, Yuna makes a wish on paper stars to return to Korea so she might feel normal somewhere. When the unexpected death of her halmoni (grandmother) makes Yuna's wish come true, Yuna is wracked with guilt and feels more fragile than ever as she realizes she also...
11) Enlighten me
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
137 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"When Bình fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat. That means no talking--and no video games!--for a whole weekend. Could things possibly get any worse? However, when a nun gathers all the kids to tell them...
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Series
Akane-banashi volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations (black& white) ; 20 cm
Description
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
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Series
Shonen note volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
Regionals are getting closer, Tomoya's parents refuse to stop arguing, and the stress is building up beyond what he can bear. When he takes it out on Yutaka, a mysterious wandering flautist may have some helpful advice.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 15
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While baby-sitting for practical joker Betsy Sobak, Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's pranks and wants to quit the club, prompting Kristy and the other baby-sitters to teach Betsy a lesson.
16) Next stop
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
249 pages, 15 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Pia is a soft-spoken middle schooler whose life is turned upside down after the loss of her younger brother, followed by her parents' decision to move to a new town. In an effort to get her mind off of the troubles at home, Pia goes on a bus tour with a family friend, stopping at weird and wacky roadside attractions. The final destination: a mysterious underground lake. The locals say it has magical powers; Pia won't admit she believes in it, but...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
211 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
"Vladimir's voice has begun to change, and he is losing the ability to sing in the soprano style he so loves. Anatoly takes him to Kawami in the hopes that Yutaka can help him. Meanwhile, the residents of Kawami are troubled to find their city has approved the construction of the industrial waste disposal facility..."--provided by publisher.
18) Constellations
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
In 1980s Troy, New York, nonbinary teenager Claire's stint in court-ordered rehab may be exactly what they need to unpack all the bad they have experienced--if they can stay sober in a world seemingly never made for them.
19) Stacey's mistake
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
153 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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When her friends from the Baby-sitters Club come for a visit in NYC, Stacey realizes they feel out of place in the big city and must find a way to keep the weekend from becoming a complete disaster.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (389 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams₂s years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago, all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore." --
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