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1) The ledge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Nick tries to adjust to his new reality after a surving accident leaves him paralyzed."--Provided by the publisher.
2) Lucky strike
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Relocating from London to New York City with her family in the aftermath of her mother's death, Kitty struggles to adjust to a different culture, before an unlikely friendship inspires alternate perspectives on how to keep her mother's memory alive.
4) Stay with me
Author
Series
Come back to me volume 2
Pub. Date
2016,
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Didi Monroe believes Zac Ridgemont is the love of her life, but when Didi grows very close to wounded marine Noel Walker during her internship at a military hospital in California and then tragedy strikes, Didi must decide if her and Walker's love is worth fighting for.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean leaving all her loved ones behind, and embracing an uncertain future.
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion; she must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes.
10) Coming up Cuban
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Four children from very different backgrounds...learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed after Fidel Castro's rise to power"--
Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.
12) My flawless life
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner. Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong--buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one woman nearly dead. Now Hana's reputation is ruined and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a small town in the 1990s, this is the story of a girl on the edge--of a breakdown, of family secrets, of learning who she really is. Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents' dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in. Convinced that she is destined to follow her mother's path, she creates a plan to escape her...
Author
Series
Top secret diary of Celie Valentine volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition, reinforced trade edition.
Language
English
Description
Celie is facing major changes in her life, including adjusting to a new school, making new friends, helping her sister, and getting used to having Granny's nurse in her house, and turns to her diary to record her troubles.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves-which is strange, because she wasn't interested...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Luca's entire identity and future are entwined around dance until he loses his performing arts scholarship after a debilitating injury. Gutted and demoted to public school attendee, the only bright spots in his new future are two friends he quickly makes, but knowing that one is gorgeous, popular, and avowed heterosexual, Luca can't help feeling he is setting himself up for another heartbreak.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"On the morning of the dedication of the new children's library in Belle Beach, Long Island, eleven-year-old Julie Sweet and her six-year-old sister, Martha, find a baby in a basket on the library steps. At the same time, twelve-year-old Bruno Ben-Eli is on his way to the train station to catch the 9:15 train into New York City. He is on an important errand for his brother, who is a soldier overseas in World War II. But when Bruno spies Julie, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On top of all that, Evvie's magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation--a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. And as Evvie's talents...
19) Hungry ghost
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at...
20) Finally seen
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When ten-year-old Lina Gao steps off the plane in Los Angeles, it's her first time in America and the first time seeing her parents and her little sister in five years! She's been waiting for this moment every day while she lived with her grandmother in Beijing, getting teased by kids at school who called her 'left behind girl.' Finally, her parents are ready for her to join their fabulous life in America! Except, it's not exactly like in the postcards:...
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