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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
142) Small Mercies
Author
Description
Mercy lives in modern-day Pietermaritzburg, South Africa with her eccentric foster aunts-two elderly sisters so poor, they can only afford one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eying their house. And that same house suddenly starts falling apart-just as Aunt Flora starts falling apart. She's forgetting words, names, and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school so nobody notices her. But when a classmate frames...
143) The goose egg
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Henrietta the elephant's serene life is disrupted when a baby goose comes to stay, but after Goose finally leaves, Henrietta no longer enjoys the quiet.
144) Waking Ben Doldrums
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Frida Bellows lives in a big house made up of four apartments. Every morning, she gets on her father’s shoulders and taps on the ceiling with a broomstick. This wakes her neighbor, a student named Ben Doldrums who knocks on the wall to wake the Mercredis, who in turn knock on the floor to wake the Reynolds. Frida likes this morning tradition. It makes her feel like she’s part of something big. Things change, however, when Ben stops getting out...
146) Trail of crumbs
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In this young adult novel, Greta and her twin brother are abandoned by their father and stepmother, and Greta struggles with the confusion and shame she feels after being raped"--
147) Rule of threes
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Future interior designer Maggie, a sixth-grader, focuses on an upcoming design contest to cope with friendship and family troubles, including having Tony, a half-brother she never knew existed, move in.
148) My two blankets
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When ghoulish creatures kill twelve-year-old Asha's guardian, her dying words launch Asha on a quest to stop an ancient evil, and along the way, she uncovers shocking secrets about the family she never knew and begins to find her place in the world as she discovers her own untapped powers.
153) Keeping it real
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family, seems like a good way to spend the summer--until she meets...
154) Pride puppy!
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
"A rhyming alphabet book featuring a family who have lost their dog at a Pride parade."--
155) The uninvited
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
156) The tiny mansion
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Twelve-year-old Dagmar and her family spend a summer living off-the-grid in a tiny home parked in the Northern California redwood forest, next door to an eccentric tech billionaire and his very unusual family.
157) Home again
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Summer has come to Fernwood Forest, and the staff of the Heartwood Hotel must trust each other as they contend with their biggest challenge yet"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"For decades, Utah's polygamous families have sought to remain out of sight and out of mind. Men in particular risk prosecution and economic blacklisting when their multiple marriages become known. But now, Joe, Alina, Vickie and Valerie Darger will open up their lives in this personal book-length account of their lives. An attractive, suburban family that look like your average American, they live in the suburbs of Salt Lake City with twenty of their...
159) El blanco
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After the death of her aunt, Emily finds that her life has been a lie and she has to search for the truth about where she came from and who she is.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This is Mabel's house . . . and this is also Mabel's house.
New routines, rules, and bedrooms: after her parents' divorce, Mabel's new living situation has her feeling topsy-turvy. As she learns to adjust to having two different houses, she struggles to understand her anxiety and frustration. But a weekend caring for the class pet helps Mabel realize that having more than one home isn't such a bad thing after all. Mabel and Izzy the Iguana make...