Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBJohn-Kehewin, Wanda
Summary: "In this young adult novel, fourteen-year-old Eva Brown is coping with difficulties at home and at school, most significantly her mother's alcoholism. When Eva's nohkum (grandmother) is hospitalized, her mother struggles to care for Eva and her younger brother. After Eva's brother wanders away, he is sent to live with a foster family and Eva finds herself in a group home. Furious at her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHNoël, Alyson.
Summary: Features "Laguna Cove", in which Anne relocates to Southern California where she learns to surf and make new friends, and "Cruel summer", in which Colby's priorities change after a summer on a Greek island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NOEAcevedo, 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 ACEElston, Ashley
Summary: After using their family business to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. When Owen and his mother receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge, he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ELSMilledge, Sas
Summary: Orla O'Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo Manalo's attic is taken over by a poltergeist! And to make matter worse it appears that the cause is Mamo, or her mislaid bones that is. Can Orla shoulder the responsibility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022
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Summary: Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books 2023
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Summary: Stella Grant likes to be in control, even though her out-of-control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. Now she needs to keep herself away five feet away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Then she meets Will Newman, another boy in the hospital and exactly what Stella needs to stay away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LIPAcker, James
Summary: Sebastian Villeda is over it. Over his rep. Over his bros. Over being "Bash the Flash," fastest sprinter in South Jersey. His dad is gone, his mom is dead, and his stepfather is clueless. Bash has no idea what he wants out of life. Until he meets Sandro. Sandro Miceli is too nice for his own good. The middle child in an always-growing, always-screaming Italian family, Sandro walks around on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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Summary: "Since Zilan entered the world of royal alchemists, she has learned firsthand that alchemy comes at a price. She has lost her family and her beloved prince in her search for justice against the evil Empress. All Zilan wants now is to find some way to bring them back. Resurrection is her specialty, after all. In search of Penglai Island, where the infamous myth says life can be fully restored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BAKStocker, Shannon
Summary: "When Twyla begins struggling with health issues the doctors dismiss as minor, she finds herself searching for answers on her own, while also dealing with friendship fallouts and the lingering effects of her mother's death as she navigates her freshman year of high school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blink
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOArnold, Elana K.
Summary: From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARNBlake, Kendare
Summary: Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. Her sisters are not dead but in hiding, and dealing with repeated visitations by a specter that may be the fabled Blue Queen, whose bony finger pointing out to sea urges them to return to Fennbirn. Jules, too, is being urged on to Fennbirn but in the role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BLAOstertag, Molly Knox
Summary: High school senior Magdalena Herrera already has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding--until the return of her childhood friend, Nessa, forces her to face her secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC OSTLockhart, E.
Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSTBenway, Robin
Summary: After getting pregnant at sixteen and putting her baby up for adoption, Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, goes looking for her biological family. She finds an older brother and younger sister, but she struggles to find the balance between her cautious joy at discovering two brand-new family members and the gaping loneliness that lingers in the space her daughter once held.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENSambury, Liselle
Summary: When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMMikail, Nadia
Summary: With the world about to end, seventeen-year-old Aisha and her mother set out on a road trip to find her estranged sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIKSambury, Liselle
Summary: While struggling with her new role as Matriarch, Voya has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future, and with a newfound sense of purpose, she vows to do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and prevent the destruction of them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMContos, Andrea
Summary: Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they haven't been friends since the party last month. The night Sophie's boyfriend, Garrett, disappeared. Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows something no one else does: Garrett left that party with Nora. Then Sophie starts receiving messages from someone who claims to be Garrett, promising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CONGlaze, Amanda
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old witch Nev Blackwell reckons with a terrible inheritance when a stranger arrives at her ancestral California mansion with a dark warning"--
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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 GLAFahmy, Huda
Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 FAHColbert, Brandy
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023