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Filles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Girls Fiction Girls Juvenile fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction Mères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Novels in verse Pères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesseJohnston, Aviaq
Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHLowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWFajardo, Kat
Summary: "Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceañera for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Bridget spends a day at work with her father, Sergeant Murphy, and learns what an important job being a police officer is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden book 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCACallender, Kacen
Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALHourigan, Erin
Summary: A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOUAlston, Bria
Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALSNyoko, Mel
Summary: A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NYOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYOPolacco, Patricia
Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction PolaccoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINFipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPPastis, Stephan
Summary: Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PASAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACENetz, Mo
Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NETLee, C. B.
Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEERoe, Monica
Summary: Twelve-year-old Emmie is working to raise money for a tricked-out wheelchair to get serious about WCMX, when a mishap on a poorly designed ramp at school throws her plans into a tailspin. Emmie loves her close-knit rural town, but she can't shake the feeling that her goals, and her choices, suddenly aren't hers anymore. With the help of her best friends, Emmie makes a plan to get her dreams off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ROEElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCLiu, Marjorie M.
Summary: "Zuli is extraordinary--she just doesn't realize it yet. Raised by mystical bird spirits in the branches of the Great Tree, she's never ventured beyond this safe haven. She's never had to. Until now. When a sinister force threatens the life-giving magic of the tree, Zuli, along with her guardian owl, Frowly, must get to the root of it. So begins an adventure bigger than anything Zuli could've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIULiao, Jenny
Summary: Chinese American Zia helps her mom tell her classmates about her job as a seamstress through translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIAGriffith, Evan
Summary: Holly Foster knows better than to get attached to people and places. Yet, when she is sent to her uncle's house in Arden, Vermont, she finds herself drawn into a fight to protect a grove of trees from being torn down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRIMurphy, Julie
Summary: Barbara "Bunny" Binks comes from a long line of Barbaras, that started with her mother and grandmother. She loves putting her hair up in "bunny buns," playing with her rabbit Ralph, and eating marshmallows. Then one day, she participates in her favorite marshmallow eating contest at field day called "Chubby Bunny," and her classmates start teasing her. But with a little help from her grandma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MURWeiner, Andrew
Summary: To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WEI (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Ramée, Lisa Moore
Summary: From the award-winning author of A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramee, comes a hilarious and heartfelt young middle grade novel, in the vein of Judy Blume, about friendship, fitting in, and the ups and downs of middle school. Sure to resonate with fans of Rebecca Stead, Meg Medina, and Kelly Yang. Eleven-year-old Kylie's friends seem so much more mature than she is. And with middle school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024