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First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together was the best one of Freddy's life, but nothing's made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, funny, and SO CUTE ... but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy's head spinning - and Freddy's friends can't understand why she keeps going back. When Freddy consults the services of a local mystic, the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different. Josiah and Deja are finally seniors. It's their last season at the Patch, their last shift together--their last good-bye. Josie's ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. (He's the melancholy...
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English
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Unimaginable loss yields to the power of human connection in this simple, moving story from the filmmakers of the eponymous Oscar-winning film. An elegy on grief. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated short by the same name, If Anything Happens I Love You is a young adult graphic novel that follows two parents as they reckon with the loss of their young daughter, Rose, in a school shooting. Readers follow Rose from above as she watches her parents...
5) Illegal
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English
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"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
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Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Brooke and her friends have a plan. A plan so big it might change their entire lives. A plan that involves low-key copyright infringement, minor automobile theft, and a secret business that runs strictly on cash. What they don't plan on are Brooke and Kelly's new romance, Melissa being caught in the middle, or Maggie suddenly feeling left out. These four friends will have their relationships tested, their morals questioned, and their deepest insecurities...
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First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks,...
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Publisher
Cicada Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Benji and his grandma, Bubbe Rosa, are gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. As they wander the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, Bubbe struggles to reconcile the world of her memories with the new realities that surround her. A powerful and affecting story of Jewish identity, of generational divides, of tolerance and acceptance and of a restless city and its inhabitants"--
9) Hey, kiddo
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In kindergarten, the author's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But his family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of his life. His father is a mystery - he doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. The author lives with his grandparents - two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children...
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