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The first book in the New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series
When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls...
When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls...
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
JEF - Science Fiction (Young Adults)
MCL - John Newbery Medal
JEF - Science Fiction (Young Adults)
MCL - John Newbery Medal
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"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
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Marin, a star pupil and editor of the school paper, is mentored by her English teacher, Mr. Beckett, but when he takes things too far and she tells the administration, she finds that no one believes her and she uses the newpaper to fight back, finding unexpected allies among her classmates.
67) Love, Jacaranda
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2020.
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First edition.
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English
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As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate this...
68) Caprice
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2022.
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First edition.
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English
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After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never...
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Sabriya has her whole summer planned out in color-coded glory, but those plans go out the window after a terrorist attack near her home. When the terrorist is assumed to be Muslim and Islamophobia grows, Sabriya turns to her online journal for comfort. You Truly Assumed was never meant to be anything more than an outlet, but the blog goes viral as fellow Muslim teens around the country flock to it and find solace and a sense of community. Soon two...
70) Meet Yasmin!
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In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.
71) The hungry place
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[2020]
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A pony with a mind of her own and a girl with a spine of steel find in each other the remedy to their loneliness.
72) Clem and Crab
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2020.
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American edition.
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A girl helps a crab with plastic wound around its claw while she is cleaning up a beach, and ends up inspiring others to take care of the beach as well.
74) Oh, Baby!
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Katie accidentally switches places with her best friend's baby sister, and must figure out a way to explain how the baby was able to talk without letting anyone know what really happened.
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Zoey and Sassafras volume 7
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English
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In the seventh book, Zoey and Sassafras are excited to enjoy their summer with their magical friends. But . . . why is everyone so grumpy? A bunch of bad days one after the other lead Zoey to suspect that something more is afoot. It's up to Zoey and Sassafras to solve the mystery before they end up with one bummer of a summer!.
76) Midnight howl
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2011.
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While staying on a ranch in Montana with family friends, Marisol begins to fear that she might be living with a werewolf.
77) The mosaic
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2017.
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English
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A teenage girl is assigned to do community service for a reclusive former Marine and the two form an unusual bond.
78) Zombie invasion
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Minecrafters Academy volume 1
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[2016]
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Lucy is invited to study at the prestigious Overworld Academy, which offers her the opportunity to learn all of the secrets of the Overworld. She's sad to leave behind her friends Henry and Max, but its time for her to have an adventure on her own.
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2014.
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First edition.
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English
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When their usual summer plans are upended by their big sister's wedding, triplets Dawn, Darby, and Delaney struggle with their dislike for the groom-to-be, a sentiment that compels them to reunite their sister with her fun-loving ex.
80) The hired girl
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
JEF - Jewish Heritage (Young Adult)
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
JEF - Jewish Heritage (Young Adult)
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
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Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
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