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61) Ana on the edge
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old figure skater Ana strives to win her competitions while learning about gender identity--Ana's own and that of a new friend--and how to navigate the best path forward.--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julian notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julian gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume, a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...
63) The Wicker King
Author
Series
Wicker King volume 2
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Best friends August and Jack struggle to cope as one spirals into madness.
August and Jack have never lived in the same world. August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varisty rugby team - but their intense friendship goes way back. It's something they keep for themselves, and they rely on each other for survival. When Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations, August decides to help Jack the only way he knows...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three young female employees work together to stop the Wild Nights Bookstore and Emporium from closing.
Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she is in love with him. Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it is her. Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. When the clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they are expecting the hours to drift by the...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying...
Author
Series
Winner bakes all volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"To stop his relationship from going sourdough, the least-popular contestant on Britain's favourite baking show must work through his anxiety and fears in order to find happiness. Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster: though he's passionate about his academic career, his severe self-doubt has trapped him in a cycle of indecision-until his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations in hopes of pushing him out of his comfort zone. Paris initially...
67) Llama Glamarama
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When he stumbles upon the Llama Glamarama, a carnival of music and dancing, Larry, who marches to the beat of his own drum, finally finds the courage to be who he really wants to be.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-olds Noa, DJ, and Jenny awake on a spaceship, unaware of how they got there or what is coming, but soon Noa and DJ are falling in love.
When Noa closes his eyes on Earth and wakes up on a spaceship called Qriosity just as it is about to explode, he's pretty sure things can't get much weirder. Boy, is he wrong. Also trapped aboard Qriosity are DJ and Jenny, neither of whom remember how they got onboard the ship. Together, the three face...
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rebelling against the role others believe she should conform to, Billie McCaffrey struggles with her feelings for two of her friends.
As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey would rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee. When Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she's in love with Woods, Billie realizes that she is also in love with Woods...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"It was love at first sight when Nakamura met his classmate Hirose. The two became friends after the shy and awkward Nakamura finally worked up the nerve to speak to him, but being so buddy-buddy with your crush is a whole new kind of torture! Can he keep it together and not scare Hirose off?!"--Page 4 of cover
71) The 57 bus
Author
Language
English
Description
"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best selling authors to debut authors.
An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators. The collection includes stories of interstellar war, a journey to Persia, a dating debacle. The teenaged characters reflect diverse colors, genders, and orientations--...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers/Dutton Children's Books, imprints of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
75) Out of the blue
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ten days after Jaya Mackenzie's mum dies, angels start falling from the sky. Smashing down to earth at extraordinary speeds, wings bent, faces contorted, not a single one has survived. Hysteria mounting with every Being that drops, Jaya's father uproots the family to Edinburgh intent on catching one alive. But Jaya can't stand this obsession and, struggling to make sense of her mother's sudden death and her own role on that fateful day, she's determined...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads, an imprint of Feiwel and Friends and Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this young adult novel, Alice, afraid of explaining her asexuality, has given up on finding love until love finds her.
Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating ... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with...
Author
Series
These witches don't burn volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
High school senior Hannah and her new girlfriend, Morgan, are the Witches' best hope for stopping the Hunters, who are now nationwide, from destroying magic for good.
Hannah Walsh should be focusing on classes, hanging out with her best friend, and flirting with her new girlfriend, Morgan. But surviving a murderous Witch Hunter doesn't exactly qualify as a summer vacation, and now the rest of the Hunters seem more intent on destroying her magic than...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For thirteen-year-old Rachel, summer is meant to be a time of long days of swimming at the lake and hanging out with her best friend, Micah. And this year she has a summer job, taking care of the animals at the small hobby farm across the road. The chickens and pig are challenging, but she loves looking after the gentle horses and goats, and especially the adorable baby steer. At home, though, things are complicated. Her parents seem more worries...
Author
Series
These witches don't burn volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks.