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61) Pablo & Birdy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Pablo, nearly ten, has many questions about his origins and how he arrived at Isla as a baby, but finding the answers may mean losing his lifetime companion, Birdy the parrot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
66) 10,000 dresses
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bailey longs to wear the beautiful dresses of her dreams but is ridiculed by her unsympathetic family which rejects her true perception of herself.
67) The Belles
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world"--
68) I like myself!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, a little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance.
69) Forbidden
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her heart...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin they believed dead.
71) The girl before
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband yells to her is to say nothing. In chapters that alternate between past and present, the novel slowly unpeels the layers of Clara's fractured life. We see her growing up, raised with her sisters by the stern Mama and Papa G, becoming a poised and educated...
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile for the last half of senior year in a new school. Then fellow student Nathan...
73) The lost girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they are separated for the first time since birth, Iris and Lark struggle with insecurities over their individual identities at the same time things begin to go missing around town.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ; col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A duckbilled dinosaur, accidentally raised by fierce tyrannosauruses who would eat duckbills if only they could reach them, tries to be like his "family" but finally gives up, runs away, and finds a real home with others of his kind.
Author
Publisher
Melissa de la Cruz Studio/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When four teens discover the dead body of influencer Summer Cartwright, they must piece together the truth behind her online persona to find out who killed her."--
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...
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