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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable 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--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
6) Mosquitoland
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
7) Raybearer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
10) Mujercitas
Author
Publisher
Editorial Ink
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
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Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
14) Saturday
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Today will be special. Today will be splendid. Today is Saturday! This is the day Ava and her mother cherish. Saturday means: storytime, salon time, picnic time, and this week ... The Best Puppet Show Ever! But what happens when life doesn't exactly deliver on its promise? Join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together. --
15) Moonflower
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Kimi Nakamura loves fashion, and designing clothes, jewelry, and accessories for her friends, but her mother, a professional graphic designer with a long list of clients, wants her to be a serious artist, and is furious when she discovers Kimi has dropped her fine arts class; so Kimi is relieved to be able to visit her normally estranged grandparents in Kyoto during spring break--but what begins as an escape becomes a way to learn about her mother...
17) Maid for it
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
20) Throwback
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all- American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the ’90s . . . alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal...