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1) Firefly Lane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
Author
Series
How to build a girl volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero. Two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?"--‡cProvided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who found something wrong with every place she's ever lived," takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus a bus to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning debut novel, Esi, a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid political upheaval in postcolonial Ghana, begins to question the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society that surrounds her, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.
10) Broken wings
Author
Series
Broken wings series (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies--Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend--help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them. Recklessly, he confronts the good-ole-boy responsible for Aubrey's...
13) Ginny Moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door.
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Emery Matterson's life has been broken for a while. First, she lost her twin sister to an incurable autoimmune disease, then her father left, then her mother fell apart when Emery herself was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her sister. The only option for Emery seems to be to move in with the father she hasn't seen in ten years, and start over. Enter Kaiden Monroe, the brooding athlete who has baggage of his own. Kaiden makes Emery feel...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams...
18) Olivia Vendetta
Author
Publisher
Stanké
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"« C'est un cliché, mais je rêve depuis des années d'assommer mon passé à coups de pelle dans face pour enfin faire la paix avec mes vieux démons. Un ambitieux programme pour des retrouvailles organisées dans une cabane à sucre. » De retour d'exil, Olivia renoue avec de vieux amis, mais surtout avec de douloureux souvenirs, en marge du conventum soulignant les vingt ans de la fin de son secondaire. Toutefois, cette réunion à saveur nostalgique...
Series
Lovesick Ellie volume 4
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"#PinkNewWorld. As Ellie gets to know the bratty boy behind handsome Ohmi's smooth-spoken facade, she falls harder and harder for him. In spite of misunderstandings during Sports Day, the two reconcile and confirm each other's feelings in the end. Ellie relishes in the fact that she gets to keep Ohmi to herself and fellow classmates are talking to her more -- including cheeky and aloof Kaname. Meanwhile, tensions grow awkward between Sara and her...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Fed up with being hopelessly single, high schooler Erika makes up a boyfriend to fit in. When her lies start to unravel, her schoolmate Kyoya offers to be her pretend boyfriend--for a price. With no other choice, Erika finds herself at the mercy of a blackhearted prince! But is Kyoya truly as blackhearted as he seems? Erika's heart is aflutter after seeing a new side of Kyoya. But if she confesses her love to him, she risks destroying everything...
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