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22) Heart bones
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Language
English
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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
23) Wintergirls
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Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
24) White girl
Author
Publisher
Sono Nis Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
235 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
25) Control freaks
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are a little... competitive. Okay. They're a LOT competitive. The minute Principal Yee announces an epic competition for the golden B-B trophy, seventh-grader Frederick Douglass Zezzmer knows he has to win. But it won't be easy. The competition doesn't just include science, technology, engineering and math. It also has arts and sports. Not Doug's best subjects... With only a week to go, Doug launches a quest...
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's time for a big celebration in Mindy Kim's family: Dad and Julie are getting married! Mindy can't wait to be the flower girl, wear her new hanbok, and officially welcome Julie into the family" --
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new love is blooming--for better or worse--in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiance, David, to her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.
Author
Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 10
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production...and to make peace with the past. As if that's not...
32) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick, Julies, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
Series
Other One volume 1
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her husband dies at his surprise party, Tess gets a bigger shock when she learns he had a secret family. Now she and her uptight daughter, Cathy, must get to know playful Marilyn and her daughter, Cat.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 20 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Stop by our video ice cream shop and listen to realistic advice from teens who have made their step-family situation work for them. Just like blending ice cream ingredients to create an interesting new flavor, blending the personalities and lifestyles of two families takes know-how, experimenting and patience.--Kanopy.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Abi moves with her father and new stepfamily into an eerie old house, something magical makes her books more real and brings a not-so-imaginary friend to stepbrother Louis.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Beloved novelist Marcia Willett continues to captivate readers with her inspiring novels about family, friendship, and love. In Postcards from the Past Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly...
38) Any other family
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family? Though they look like any other family, they aren't one--not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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After her mother's attempted suicide, thirteen-year-old Anna goes to live with her father and his new family, and learns to navigate the shifting loyalties of middle school friendships.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
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