Halpern, Julie
Summary: "Tenth graders Eliana and Dmitri could not be more different. He's an outgoing, self-confident drummer in a punk band called Unexpected Turbulence. Eliana is introspective and thoughtful, and a movie buff who is living with depression. Dmitri quite literally falls for Eliana when he sees her in gym class and slams into a classmate. The pair then navigate the ins and outs of first love....
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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 HALKirsch, Vincent X.
Summary: Archie and Zack are inseparable, both in elementary school and outside it, but Archie is having trouble telling Zack about his love, so he writes a letter, from A. to Z.; in fact he writes a lot of letters, but they do not sound right so he hides them, and though his other friends, Zelda, Zinnia, and Zuzella, find the letters, they all understand who the letters are really for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIRSortino, Anna
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOROstertag, 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 OSTIrving, A. J.
Summary: "An LGBTQ-inclusive story about understanding your peers, your feelings, and yourself, The Wishing Flower is a love letter to longing, belonging, and longing to belong. Birdie finds comfort in nature and books, but more than anything she longs for connection, to be understood. At school, Birdie feels like an outsider. Quiet and shy, she prefers to read by herself, rather than jump rope or swing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE IRVMcBride, Amber
Summary: Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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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 MCBKarp, Marcelle
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Jazz worries when her best friend Macy displays obsessive behavior over an ex-boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KARMills, Emma
Summary: Aurelie is an overworked, under-appreciated apprentice at Basil's Bakery. She values the stability the job offers, so she keeps her head down and doesn't dare to dream big-- until a stranger walks in and hands her a set of Seeking stones. In a country where Seeking was old-fashioned even before magic went out of style, it is a rare skill, but Aurelie has it. The bounty hunter, Iliana, needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Diviision. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: "When Kenny and Nicky rescue a rook left for dead, Kenny is determined to keep it alive. Nicky doubts the scruffy bird will make it, but then Nicky has plenty else to worry about. This time, it's not his dad or Kenny who needs help--his dad's sorting his life out and Kenny's busy making plans with his new best friend. Now it's Nicky's turn to struggle--with a school bully, his first love, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCGCoombs, Amelia Diane
Summary: Florie's OCD and her mother's worrying have kept her from a lot of things, like having an after-school job and getting her driver's license. Now she's taking a gap year after high school, and her best friend Kacey is headed to college in Portland in the fall. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast's live show in California gives her the opportunity leave small-town Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COOSmith, Cynthia Leitich
Summary: When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIMcLemore, Anna-Marie
Summary: "Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCLSumner, Jamie
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Ellie finds herself faced with first love and learning to let go as her friendship with best friend Bert starts to turn into something more, and her beloved grandfather loses his battle with Alzheimer's disease"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMMafi, Tahereh
Summary: A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAFOh, 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 OHWoodfolk, 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 WOOShrum, Brianna R.
Summary: "Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn't know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs is the right tutor. Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. But a flunking grade in US History is threatening her acceptance to her dream school. All she needs is the right tutor. Margo agrees to help Abbie get her history grade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHRAllen, 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 ALLLyu, Sarah
Summary: Welcome to Meadowlark, Long Island--expensive homes and good schools, ambition and loneliness. Meet Chase Ohara and Lia Vestiano: the driven overachiever and the impulsive wanderer, the future CEO and the free spirit. Best friends for years--weekend trips to Montauk, sleepovers on a yacht--and then, first love. True love. But when Lia disappears, Chase's life turns into a series of grim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LYURoehrig, Caleb
Summary: "Verona, Italy. Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Romeo dreams of a quiet life with someone who loves him just as he is. But as the heir to the Montague family, he is expected to give up his "womanly" artistic pursuits and uphold the family honor -- particularly in their centuries-old blood feud with a rival family, the Capulets. Worse still, he is also expected to marry a well-bred girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROEDåsnes, Nora
Summary: Twelve-year-old Tuva struggles with how to become a teenager, friendship, and falling in love with another girl in this graphic novel set in Norway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hippo Park 2023
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Summary: "In the beginning, Owen's story was blank . . . then he was befriended by Lily, the aspiring author who helped him find his voice. Together, the two have spent years navigating first love and amassing an inseparable friend group. But all of it is upended one day when his school's administration learns Owen's secret: that he was sexually assaulted by a classmate."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMEBuchta, Heather
Summary: High-school senior Alexa Brooks is trying to forget about her former potential boyfriend, Carson Knight, who is now a heartthrob actor renamed Cayden McKnight, so when a school assignment brings them together, Alexa must enter the world of bright lights to try to make amends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BUCSalvatore, Steven
Summary: Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he's plagued with the belief that he's not enough for anyone: he's recovering from an eating disorder and suffers from body dysmorphia fueled by his father, and can't quite figure out his gender identity. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022