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1) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Language
English
Description
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
5) Hummingbird
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted"--
7) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela RamÃrez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Language
English
Description
"While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future."--|cProvided by publisher.
9) Finally seen
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 3
Language
English
Description
A year after August's death, Jamie and Charlotte are manipulated into reforming their detective team by someone who wants to see them suffer. Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can't seem to fall for. Charlotte is on the run, from Lucien Moriarty and from her own mistakes. No one has seen her since that fateful night on the lawn in Sussex-- and Charlotte...
13) Also
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An ode to the way memories allow us to be in many places at once, [Also] is a powerful exploration of being present as well as looking back. Perfect for Mother's Day, birthdays, or graduation, this modern classic is by Ezra Jack Keats Honor-winner E. B. Goodale."--
14) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--
Author
Language
English
Description
Marya Lupu's parents has always believed that her older brother Luka is destined to be a sorcerer and make the family's fortune, so when the day he is tested turns into a disaster, and the Guild declares that he has no magical talent, they find it easier to blame Marya for upsetting the test than admit the truth, and she is sent to the Dragomir Academy, a school for wayward girls--but a school where she finds friendship and ultimately discovers her...
18) Project F
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Several hundred years in the future, in a world where fossil fuels are no longer used as a power source, a thirteen-year-old boy named Keith joins a jet pack project that will give people the ability to fly."--
19) Nigeria Jones
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--|cProvided by publisher.
20) Drawing Deena
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When aspiring artist Deena's anxiety reaches a breaking point, both she and her mother learn the importance of asking for help, and that, with the right support, she can create something truly beautiful."--Provided by publisher.