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Marr, Shirley

Summary: Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC MAR

Gemeinhart, Dan

Summary: In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

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Brockenbrough, Martha

Summary: Frank the cat is happy at home with his two humans until they bring home a puppy who disturbs his entire way of life, so after running away and finding out how unwelcoming the world outside is he makes his way back to where he belongs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRO

Gemeinhart, Dan

Summary: In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2022

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Lamouche, Sandra

Summary: "Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and the sounds of the drum. But when he starts going to daycare, he doesn't feel like he belongs. Nikosis cries every time his mother leaves him in the unfamiliar environment until, one day, she and the teachers use drums to help Nikosis find connection and comfort. Inspired by her son's experience--and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAM

Desierto, Derek

Summary: Wishing for a family, Oddbird, who has always been on his own, discovers that all families don't look the same, and sometimes the families we choose are where we belong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DES

Crow, Katrine

Summary: "What do you do when you feel like you don't fit in? Find something that makes you stand out"--Page 4 cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flowerpot Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CRO

Anyakwo, Diana

Summary: It's 1990, and Lily is a sixteen-year-old girl living in Manchester, England. It has been five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with her mother and siblings for the anniversary. As cold rain thunders on the British streets, Lily flashes back to her childhood in Lagos. The biracial daughter of a Nigerian father and an Irish mother,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IgKids 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANY

Arango, Andrea Beatriz

Summary: Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARA

Yamasaki, Katie

Summary: A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YAM

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YAM

Smith, Briony May

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A mischievous fairy born to a family of wrens sets out to find her "real" family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2024

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Garber, Romina

Summary: After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GAR

Lai, Remy

Summary: "Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LAI

Fox, Kate Allen

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: On the shortest day of the year, communities come together to celebrate and savor every ray of light.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FOX

Morrow, Bethany C.

Summary: "Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she's famous, stylish, gorgeous--and she's an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Everyone loves her--until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world. Dragged by the media, and canceled by her fans, she feels that no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC MOR

Jean, Emiko

Summary: After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEA

Anderson, Sophie

Summary: Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

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Kaylor, Serena

Summary: "A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAY

Kim, Dan-ah

Summary: Nari's home feels a bit too full and a little too loud for Nari. Sometimes she wishes she lived somewhere else. Maybe a garden, or on a boat, or under the sea, or back in time, or even up in the sky with the stars. When the train rumbles by her window, she wants to jump on board. Where could it take her? The possibilities stretch far and wide as Nari's dreams.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KIM

Summary: "In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOU

Vitalis, Jessica

Summary: "When her unconventional parents finally agree to settle down in one place, twelve-year-old Cayenne's dreams come true, but the reality of fitting in is much harder than she imagined"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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Farid, Diana

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FAR

Brockenbrough, Martha

Summary: Frank the cat has it good. Then his people bring home a box with a puppy inside. A puppy who doesn't know the rules of naps, and slobbers and tackles and barks. This won't do. Frank will just have to find a better home.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BRO

Long, Loren

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: A forgotten school bus finds joy and purpose in the most unexpected places.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024

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