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2022.
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Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
Parisa Naficy, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela Gonzales, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability. Despite...
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As long as the pool party goes according to my plan, and I can get rid of the pimple on my chin in time, then everything will be fine. I just can't spend another summer as some big joke. I'll show everyone that I am new and improved. I let out a deep breath and tighten my grip on the bike. Everything will be better after the pool party. It has to be.
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2023.
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To boost her college applications, seventeen-year-old Eloise, a loner girl struggling with her mental health, volunteers at a senior support center where she meets a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy who challenge her to step out of her comfort zone.
Eloise Deane is grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year hoping to get accepted to USC and move to California. To score a scholarship she desperately needs...
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Maybe Marisol volume 2
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"One of Marisol's least-favorite things is gym class--especially when Coach Decker announces that they will be playing kickball--so Marisol and her best friend Jada ask the best (and stinkiest) athlete they know--Marisol's big brother Oz--for help"--
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Mihi ever after volume 1
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When she and her new friends discover a portal to a fairy tale realm, Mihi Whan Park finally gets her shot at being a princess, but she must decide where her loyalties lie when her friends want to go home.
8) Mixed up
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2023.
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"Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father"--
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Invincible Girls Club volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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While volunteering at an animal shelter, Lauren and her three best friends--Ruby, Myka, and Emelyn--plan a cupcake adoption event to help older dogs find a home, but the big day does not go as planned.
12) Flora's wish
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A young mouse learns how to grieve and honor her best friend, a dandelion named Lion who helped her be brave.
13) Art with heart
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Invincible Girls Club volume 2
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Emelyn and her three best friends use positive words and art to fight back against bullying at school.
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"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
15) I am not alone
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Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
16) Window fishing
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2023.
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Amir bonds with Rudeday, his downstairs artist neighbor, over a game they invented.
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Frances and the monsters volume 1
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"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and the city itself, are doomed forever"--
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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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"Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can't have sex. After two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. To win him back, Monique teams up with straight-laced church girl Sasha--who is surprisingly knowledgeable about Monique's condition--as well as Reggie, the misunderstood...
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Zara's rules volume 2
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2022.
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English
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"After Zara's bike goes missing, her parents insist on her earning money to pay for it, so she and her friend Naomi turn their red wagon into The Treasure Wagon and try and sell some old knickknacks found in her family's basement."--
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