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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
43) The fallen hero
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Determined to prevent the war her brother Alex is provoking, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu and her half-dragon friend, Ren, seek help from the New Order, warriors based in Manhattan's Chinatown, and from the Monkey King.--
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English
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It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl.
When the authorities catch up...
When the authorities catch up...
Author
Series
Western mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton inherits a valuable deed and must hide from a gang of desperados.
Author
Series
Animal rescue team volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chaos ensues when Keisha's father brings an escaped alligator home to Carter's Urban Rescue, but it gets out of the bathroom while Grandma is guarding it.
49) Marina's muumuu
Author
Publisher
Piñata
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Marina has always dreamed of having a colorful muumuu, the traditional dress of the Hawaiian people, and finally goes to the bustling downtown with her grandmother to buy the fabric.
50) The barbarian
Series
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
How perfectly charming: a Cairo guide named Jamil has returned Diana Standing's lost Pekinese. She doesn't know that Jamil stole the dog so he could get close to the beautiful tourist.
51) Shallow graves
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Language
English
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Description
After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
53) Liberty Biscuit
Author
Publisher
Trafalgar Square Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Kip rescues a one-eyed white donkey and his two horse companions from an abusive owner, and, with the help of her Grandpa Joe, she works to gentle the hurt and frightened animals.
Author
Series
Shadow volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"The sequel to Wake of Vultures, where a rich, secret world is hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome made a leap -- not knowing what she'd become. But now her destiny as the Shadow is calling. A powerful alchemist is leaving a trail of dead across the prairie. And Nettie must face the ultimate challenge: side with her friends and the badge on her chest or take off alone on a dangerous mission that is pulling her inexorably toward the fight of...
56) A quiet teacher
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Greg Abimbola is a language teacher at the prestigious Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh. Only that's not his real name . . . or the only secret he's hiding. When the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg is determined to avoid attention. That is until the closest person to a true friend Greg has is arrested for the murder. To prove her innocence, Greg will reluctantly emerge from the...
57) Blended
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English
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Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
58) Indigo blue
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control }or his touch. Despite the hatred between their peoples, Loretta and...
59) Gigi and Ojiji
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Language
English
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Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji-Japanese grandpa-to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?
60) Rebels like us
Author
Publisher
Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Forced to move to a small southern town halfway through her senior year, mixed-race teen Agnes struggles with culture shock and endeavors to keep her head down before discovering that her high school holds segregated proms.
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