Arango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARAChung, Arree
Summary: After breaking up, the colors must re-evaluate what it means to be a family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHUChung, Arree
Summary: Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE CHUWinston, Sherri
Summary: When Maggie learns that her father has a second daughter, Callie, she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with best friend Daija. They are determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood.Daija doesn't want Callie to interfere with their new Braid Girls business-- she needs the money to pay for extra ballet lessons so she can earn a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINFreeman-Haskin, Leah
Summary: "Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school's spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons ... By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she'll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to cheer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2023
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Summary: "Marigold "Goldie" Vance is curious, quick-witted, and dreams of becoming a world-famous detective. She lives and works at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel in Florida, with a whole slew of characters: her dad, Art, the manager of the joint; Cheryl Lebeaux, Goldie's best friend; and Walter Tooey, the hotel detective. Her mom, Sylvie, works nearby at the Mermaid Club. While life at the Crossed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RIVSmith, Ronald L. (Ronald Lenard)
Summary: After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji-Japanese grandpa-to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE IWABryant, Elise (Elise M.)
Summary: "Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYMaclear, Kyo
Summary: Soon after a young girl arrives in Japan, she, her grandmother, her aunties, and some cousins celebrate cultural traditions together while visiting a bath house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACMeshon, Aaron.
Summary: A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESIwai, Melissa
Summary: Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Joyful young narrators celebrate feeling at home in one's own skin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOYFlores-Scott, Patrick
Summary: Told over the course of forty-eight hours, seventeen-year-old Tony heads back to his old life in Des Moines, Washington after being released from a youth detention center, but toxic old relationships and unforseen challenges make staying on the straight-and-narrow nearly impossible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLOBaker, Kylie Lee
Summary: In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAKDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DRATamaki, Mariko
Summary: In this contemporary retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, a queer, half-Japanese disco superfan, moves to a town that seems too small for her big personality and where she becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MDLC Studio 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMMcGovern, Kate
Summary: "Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother committed suicide, she turned into a bird and flew to her native Taiwan. On her journey to find her mother, Leigh must face her family's past and move towards a future of forgiveness and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PANJones, Kelly (Kelly Anne)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown is finally settling into her new home and her new role as keeper of some highly unusual chickens--chickens with secret superpowers! But the arrival of two new magical chickens for her flock and some unusual eggs to be incubated and hatched (what will their superpowers be?), plus an impending inspection from the Unusual Poultry Committee (who even knew this existed?)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: "Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique--and even more surprised when she learns their secrets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKGibney, Shannon
Summary: Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GIBZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBChari, Sheela
Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022