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822) What stays buried
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthday. And with only a few weeks left, children have started going missing. When Calista meets The Tall Lady--an angry spirit with a grudge against Calista, her family, and the entire town--she knows she's found the ghost responsible for the disappearances. It's up to Calista, the only one who can see The Tall Lady, to stop her. If she doesn't, Calista...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Nevertheless, Youssef is keeping a secret: he sees...
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Formats
Description
Told through four viewpoints, sisters Des, Bea, Kat, and Vi, aged nineteen to fifteen, are each transformed, especially in how they see one another, in the last summer before Bea leaves for college.
Vi has a crush on the girl next door, but Cece has a boyfriend, so it's not like her feelings could ever be reciprocated, right? Kat lands the lead in the community theater's summer play, but her ex and his new girlfriend are cast too. Bea and her boyfriend...
826) When we make it
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
A first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader, Sarai can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella she...
827) Preacher's boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013, 1999.
Description
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
828) Blue period: Vol. 10
Author
Series
Blue period volume 10
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Yatora prepares for the first-year show, where he'll have to pass an open review from intimidating professors and celebrity guest lecturers. To make matters worse, the self-directed nature of the assignment is more stifling than freeing, and he's no longer sure: Does he even like art? Why did he ever start? An all-nighter in Shibuya may hold the answer, but Yatora's not with his usual boys ..."--Provided by publisher
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Description
"Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of "situationships", players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Maya has reservations about transferring to a hearing school after studying in a school for the deaf for years, but grows closer to Beau Watson, the student body president, who starts learning sign language to communicate with her.
831) Art boss
Author
Series
Piper Perish volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Artist Piper Perish has moved from her hometown of Houston, Texas, to New York City. Her days are spent exploring; her nights are filled with painting. It's her lifelong dream come true ... Except life in the city isn't as glamorous as it looks from afar. Piper's high-pressure work as an assistant to a famous modern artist takes away time from her own art. And Piper's new friend Grace, a budding activist, has Piper beginning to wonder if making great...
832) Magisterium
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In the twenty-second century Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project which will allow him to penetrate the Rift and retrieve Glennora's mother; but now that he has suceeded the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both, and Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Rift to escape them.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn't commit. Come Home Safe explores the pain, the truths, and the hopes that come with growing up as a person of color in America, as well as why "the talk" and discussions about social justice are so important in the community. This engaging YA novel from ABC News legal analyst Brian Buckmire is told in a way that can help foster conversations about what it means to navigate today's world,...
834) John and the hole
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A coming-of-age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Akari finds herself attracted to Kazuomi even though he's very different from her usual type, but he seems completely uninterested in love. When Rio learns that Akari likes Kazuomi, his state of mind makes Yuna's heart ache."--Back cover.
836) The poet X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Set amidst the breathtaking beauty of Oxford, this sparkling debut novel tells the unforgettable story about a determined young woman eager to make her mark in the world and the handsome man who introduces her to an incredible love that will irrevocably alter her future-perfect for fans of JoJo Moyes and Nicholas Sparks.
American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she's finally made it...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Gracie feels like a minor character in her own life story-until a mysterious journal turns her fictional stories into reality. It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different. Shy and awkward, she has trouble fitting in at her new school, she's still reeling from her parents' divorce, and her grandmother Katherine's Alzheimer's is getting worse. So when Gracie finds a blank journal in Katherine's vanity drawer,...
840) Blue period: Vol. 8
Author
Series
Blue period volume 8
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. Popular guy Yatora realizes he's just going through the motions to make other people happy and finds himself in a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling... CITYSCAPE After a disappointing first assignment, Yatora is encouraged by Maki and is determined to move forward. His next assignment is a scenery of Tokyo....
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