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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: 'You exist too much, ' she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes...
62) Girls' softball
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"This title highlights five important softball skills and five top female athletes who have perfected those skills. Tips for improving each skill are perfect for young athletes looking to improve their game. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a diagram, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Powerpuff girls volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Professor Utonium invents a superhero suit and starts fighting crime along with the Powerpuff girls, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.
64) Glass sword
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
66) River's End
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Series
Description
Anna Larson's daughter, Lauren, became pregnant while she was at college and decided to keep the baby, Sarah, but life had not been easy for them. When Sarah was only sixteen years old, she ran away from home. It is now Sarah's eighteenth birthday and neither Anna nor Lauren have heard from her in all this time. Anna is certain that her granddaughter is dead. But suddenly, Sarah shows up at the Inn at Shining Waters, a mere shell of her old self....
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Series
Description
"Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in the much anticipated new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Bringing Up Boys by parenting expert and best-selling author Dr. James Dobson was, and continues to be, a runaway hit, selling more than 2 million copies to date. Now, Dr. Dobson presents his highly anticipated companion book: Bringing Up Girls. Based on extensive research, and handled with Dr. Dobsons trademark down-to-earth approach, Bringing Up Girls will equip parents like you to face the challenges of raising your daughters to become healthy,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the game of love, young men and women weigh what they need from the opposite sex against what they need to find in themselves - Any way they know how. Bear witness to twelve unique trysts as relationships go either right or wrong, and teens fall in and out of love with surprising, often funny, always on-point results--Cover.
72) Caught
Author
Description
Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband's death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer's innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer's alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer's next victim.
73) Dana's valley
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2001
Description
New Look for a Bestselling Author's Mother-Daughter Collaboration Erin Walsh thinks her family is as close to perfect as it can be. When one grim diagnosis is all it takes to shake her family to the core, she wonders if they can ever go back to they way they were. Erin's attempts to go about life as usual feel empty and as each member of her family seems to struggle alone, she is about ready to give up on God. However, Erin has yet to learn that God...
74) Ginny Moon
Author
Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager-she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit...different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
Author
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A sensitive, detailed and informative guide to female puberty, invaluable for young girls and parents alike, tackling key subjects from physical changes to buying their first bra. Bright, stylish original colour illustrations and diagrams reveal everything young girls need to know about the changes they experience as they near puberty.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Venus Black, a straitlaced, straight-A student is the last person anyone would expect to get in trouble, but when she is arrested for committing a shocking crime, it is clear that there was more going on in Venus's world than anyone knew. When she is released from a juvenile detention center five years later, she assumes a new identity in the hope of escaping the pain of her past, the mother that disappointed her, and her criminal...
77) Swimming
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A ferociously original novel, sparkling with wit and blazing with emotion, from a gifted new novelist. A spectacular debut about the rise of an Olympic champion -- a novel about competition, obsession, the hunger for victory, and a young girl with an unsinkable spirit struggling to stay afloat in the only way she can. When we first meet Pip, the extraordinary heroine of Nicola Keegan's first novel, she is landlocked in a small town in the center...
78) Winners: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
Paralyzed by a tragic chairlift accident, seventeen-year-old competitive skier Lily struggles with the loss of her Olympic dreams before meeting a young man, Teddy, who has overcome his own devastating injuries to pursue an enriching life.
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Maria lives in a remote village in Burgundy, where she learns that she has a gift for communicating with nature. Hundreds of miles away in Italy, Clara discovers that she possesses a stunning musical genius and is sent from the countryside to Rome to develop her preternatural abilities. Barbery's The life of the elves tells the story of two children whose extraordinary talents will bring them into contact with magical worlds and malevolent forces....
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