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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Offering wisdom for everyone, along with colorful original illustrations, arcade icon Pac-Man shares a collection of his most famous inspirational and feel-good quotes.
62) Maybe
Author
Publisher
Compendium, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"You are the only you there every has been or ever will be. You are unique. Just the odds of you being here at this exact place and this exact time are so great and so rare that they will never happen again. This is a story for everything you will do and everything you could be. It's for who you are right now, and it's for all the magical, unbounded potential you hold inside." -- from book cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret space: the abandoned but majestic mansion across the street....
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sara and Nadine have been like two halves of the same person, but when Nadine skips a grade and begins high school first, Sara must discover who she is without Nadine.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
McKenna and her best friend planned for over a year to defer their freshman year of college to hike the Appalachian Trail all the way from Maine to Georgia, so when her friend backs out McKenna embarks alone on a physical and emotional journey that will change her life forever.
66) Smiles to go
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense, but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sally O'Malley is an orphan working at a mineral spring hotel in the woods of central Oregon--that is, until she's chucked out like chewed-on chicken bones, due entirely to an unfortunate incident with a pig and some church ladies. And so Sally decides to head west to the sea. Glorious, she's heard. Fierce, she's heard. Why not see for herself? Before long Sally encounters a dangerous bobcat--and that's just the first day! Safe in the knowledge that...
68) Isabel in bloom
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel is the new kid in her San Francisco middle school. It's the first time in many years that she'll be living with her mother again. Mama's job in the US allowed Isabel and her grandparents to live more comfortably in the Philippines, but now Isabel doesn't really know her own mother anymore. Making new friends in a new city, a new country, is hard, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school means Isabel will begin to...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When three high school friends experience breakups on the same night, a fourth writes "The Break up Code," which all agree to follow as they try to get over the bad relationships and get back in touch with themselves and one another.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspiring young boys to be as gentle as they are strong, this beautiful book explores the tumbles and triumphs of childhood. New York Times bestselling author Hilary Duff fills the pages with wishes for her own son and encourages boys everywhere to embrace all that life has to offer them.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the end of her senior year at Minnesota's Le Sueur High School through her first year as a physics major at Columbia University, Molly Swain finds the inner strength and good friends to help her cope with huge challenges, including learning that the boy she loves is gay.
72) Eb & Flow
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ebony and De'Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior--to their families, to each other, and ultimately to themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Billy has spent his almost-sixteen years with four cardinal points--Mother, Christ, Bible, and Home-school--but when he sets off on a wild road trip to find the father he thought was dead, he learns much about himself and life.
74) Vinyl moon
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from him, and from the California...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 1200L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well.