Oh, Axie
Summary: Cello prodigy Jenny's goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncle's Los Angeles karaoke bar, it's clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure-- before he disappears without a word. Three months later, when Jenny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHOstertag, Molly
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends ... who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OSTAllen, Charlene Y.
Summary: "From debut author Charlene Allen comes a captivating YA contemporary mystery and coming-of-age story, celebrating the power of friendship, first love, and exploring the criminal justice system from the lens of restorative justice. Perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, and Maureen Johnson. In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLPacheco, Josae Emilio
Summary: "This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.' A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACMandelbaum, Becky
Summary: "2016. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas has not only been the target of anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is also for sale, due to hidden financial ruin. Ariel, living a new life in progressive Lawrence, and estranged from her mother for six years, returns to her childhood home - and finds her first love, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANWalsh, M. O. (Milton O'Neal)
Summary: A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WALMoriarty, Laura
Summary: This is the story of a 10-year-old math prodigy, Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother. Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORNicholls, David
Summary: "From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NICImperioli, Michael
Summary: After the loss of both his father and grandfather, sixteen-year-old Matthew moves from Queens to Manhattan with his mother. There he learns to navigate a new school, a new neighborhood and a neighbor upstairs, Lou Reed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IMPAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIRooney, Sally
Summary: "At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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Summary: Rani Kelkar never lied to her parents-- until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in-- his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art-- make him her mother's worst nightmare. When Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAJNiven, Jennifer
Summary: Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NIVGordon, Gia
Summary: "The end of Daya Keane's junior year in Escondido, Arizona, is anything but expected. And it starts when her longtime swoon-worthy crush, Beckett Wild, actually talks to her at a party neither of them should've been at. But as Daya's best friends, Stella and B'Rad, are quick to point out, smart, cute, artistic Beckett is also the poster girl for the wildly popular youth group at Grace Redeemer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORStuart, Douglas
Summary: "The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEStarler, Brina
Summary: "L. M. Montgomery' classic tale, Anne of Green Gables, gets a romantic, charming, and hilarious modern adaptation, set in New York City. After an idyllic girlhood in Avonlea, Long Island, Anne has packed up her trunk, said goodbye to her foster parents, Marilla and Matthew, and moved to the isle of Manhattan for grad school. Together with her best friend, Diana Barry, she' ready to take on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo is a Protestant while James is Catholic. Against all odds, they become friends and eventually lovers. They dream of finding somewhere they can belong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STUTrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Ambitious teen Nella, the daughter of an Italian family from a small Pennsylvania village, aspires to live in society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves mysteriously disappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRIBurke, James Lee
Summary: Intervening when he sees the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, Aaron Holland Broussard inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burke 2016Woodfolk, Ashley
Summary: A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually destructive partners in crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOPeterson, J. C. (Jenny)
Summary: "Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record--and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETMcBride, Amber
Summary: A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path. Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted. Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he comes from, maybe he'll be able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCBDwyer, Kristin
Summary: Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when a rash decision throws Ellis's life--and her relationship with Easton-- into chaos she's forced to move halfway across the country, far from everything she's ever known. Now Ellis hasn't spoken to Easton in a year, and maybe it's better that way; maybe eventually the Easton shaped hole in her heart will heal. But when Easton's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DWYBulla, Michael Gray
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Gael, a trans boy, learns to let his walls down while finding community, discovering his sexuality, falling in love, and navigating difficult family situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023