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Author
Series
Curlfriends volume 1
Publisher
LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eager to make a good first impression at her new middle school, thirteen-year-old Charlie does her best to fit in until she meets a group of diverse Black girls who show her the importance of authenticity.
2) Slugfest
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"--
3) Shark teeth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
5) Unstuck
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
7) Emmett
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old self-absorbed Emmett navigates love and relationships in this queer retelling of Emma.
8) Art club
Author
Publisher
LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
"After the art programs are cut at his school, Dale Donovan recruits talented artists to create an after-school art club"--
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy. That is, judged on her merits--not on her transness. But there's no road map for being the first trans girl at an all-girls school. And when she tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she's thrust into the center of a larger argument about what girlhood means and whether the club should exist at all"--
Author
Series
Broken tower volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rat Evans, nonbinary heir to one of the oldest magical bloodlines in New York, doesn't cast spells anymore. For as long as Rat can remember, they've been surrounded by doorways no one else sees and corridors that aren't on any map. Then one day, they opened a passage and found a broken tower in a field of weeds--and something followed them back. When Rat is accepted into Bellamy Arts, all they want is a place to hide and to make sure they never open...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only meant to help Sterling realize she's dating a jerk, and maybe...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Carman.
15) Wandering stars
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
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