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1) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are...
Author
Language
English
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1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race...
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Winnie counts down the days until she begins high school, but turmoil in her relationships with Lars, Dinah, Cinnamon, and her family provide Winnie with a distraction that allows her to ignore her own issues.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 14
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1990, c1935
Physical Desc
177 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite attempts against their lives, Frank and Joe accept a case involving the most powerful man in a small town in Georgia and an allegation of piracy and smuggling.
5) Ten
Author
Series
Winnie years volume Prequel
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winnie celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
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Language
English
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Description
Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of...
7) Breathless
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
9) Sneak thief
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gifted thief Hush finds that she needs to change her ways to stay out of trouble, so when she is assigned to a job at Miz Tromp's Nursery, she learns that she is capable of taking away the pain of others, and teams up with her new friend Desiree to heal her town.
10) Each tiny spark
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.
13) Jackpot
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan, can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize."--
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
16) The Ravens
Author
Series
Ravens (Kass Morgan) volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Loner Vivi Deveraux is thrilled to join Westerly College's Kappas, who are secretly witches, until she meets perfect, polished Scarlett Winter, who will stop at nothing to be the sorority's next president.
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