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A story that begins where too many others end, this stunningly written and unflinchingly authentic tale of love, loss, and hope will touch fans of All the Bright Places and Girl in Pieces.
Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future’s supposed to look like.
Some days the pain feels as fresh as that
...6) Code red
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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233 pages ; 22 cm
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Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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422 pages ; 22 cm
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After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
10) Girl on the line
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Pub. Date
2021.
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344 pages ; 21 cm.
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Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Jeet es nuevo en la ciudad y está un poquito solo. Para combatir su soledad, él y su madre empiezan a hacer de volunarios en un refugio de animales local. Allí, Jeet hace una nueva amiga: ¡una alegre perrita, Choco! El mundo de Jeet está a punto de hacerse mucho mejor.
13) Forever friends
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Jeet is new to town and a little lonely. To combat this, he and his mom start volunteering at a local animal shelter. There, Jeet makes a new friend in a happy puppy, Fudge! Jeet's world is about to get a whole lot better. Kids and adults alike will delight in this level 2 emerging reader, the first in a series about a young Sikh boy, his 'yummy' sidekick puppy, and their adventures in volunteerism and play."--
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Series
Ladybug Girl volume 10
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Description
"While at the farmers' market with her mama, Ladybug Girl spies some rescue dogs and, together with the Bug Squad, finds one of them a forever home, vowing to return again to help the others"--
15) Lola at last
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Pub. Date
2023
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383 pages ; 22 cm
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"Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record--and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her:...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they decide to help the new animal shelter with their own talents, Mae raises money to buy cat food with a lemonade stand and April writes a letter to the newspaper to encourage adoption"--
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