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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
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
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
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated...
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