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1101) What I like about me
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing over vacation is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's already shaky confidence. And especially not when her best friend starts flirting with the boy she's always loved. But Maisie's got something to prove. As she writes down all the ways...
1102) Where you'll find love
Author
Series
Zen pig volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Zen Pig starts this adventure with a story on finding love, Is it hard to find? What does it even look like? Come, let Zen Pig show you" -- Page [4] cover.
1103) What happens next
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Advanced picture book told through first-person narrative and graphic novel style panels. What Happens Next is a raw, realistic story told by an unnamed protagonist who feels different from everybody else, like she doesn't quite fit in. Bullied by a girl at school, our narrator gives a terse script of the related facts and emotions. At school the next day, the narrator confronts the bully by spinning her "weirdo" obsession with science into an opportunity...
1105) Half-minute horrors
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.
1106) Poseidon's Peak
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Before the Black Pearl, there was a teenage stowaway named Jack Sparrow...Having recently been betrayed by his last remaining crewmate, Jack finds himself all alone on perhaps the most dangerous quest of his young life. Jack is on a mission to find something he's not even sure exists--a treasure of unimaginable proportions. But there's a band of pirates who are also searching for the treasure. Will they, or Jack, find it first?
1107) Mr. 60%
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Matt Nolan is the high school drug dealer, deadbeat, and soon-to-be dropout according to everyone at his school. His vice principal is counting down the days until Mr. 60% (aka Matt) finally flunks out and is no longer his problem. What no one knows is the only reason Matt sells drugs is to take care of his uncle Jack, who is dying of cancer. Meet Amanda. The overly cheerful social outcast whose optimism makes Matt want to hurl. Stuck as partners...
1108) Didn't see that coming
Author
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
1109) The great treehouse war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
After her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Recently, top pros have been performing well past a previously considered prime: World-class athletes such as Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, is winning competitions in his fifties; Tom Brady can beat players half his age. But what about the rest of us? Steven Kotler has been studying human performance for thirty years, and taught hundreds of thousands of people at all skill levels, age groups, and walks of life, how to achieve peak...
1111) Shattered
Author
Series
Amanda project volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Amanda Valentino went into hiding, Nia, Callie, and Hal were shocked to learn that everything they thought they knew about her was false, even her name. But from the clues she leaves behind, they discover the danger that forced her to lie and then drove her underground. Despite the risks, her friends are determined to help Amanda. Following their latest lead, Nia unearths a series of mysterious symbols scattered throughout town. It's a code...
1112) The Summer Queen
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"As a new coven, Aziza, Leo, and Tristan faced evil and triumphed. All that’s left is to put their lives back together, a process complicated by the fallout from painful secrets, the emotional and physical scars they now carry, and the mysteries that still haunt them. But with the approach of the solstice comes the arrival of strange new visitors to Blackthorn: the Summer Court, a nomadic community of Fair Folk from deep in Elphame. They’ve journeyed...
1113) I'll tell you no lies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
New York, 1955. Eighteen-year-old Shelby Blaine and her father, an Air Force intelligence officer, have just been wrenched away from their old life in West Germany to New York’s Griffiss Air Force Base, where he has been summoned to lead the interrogation of an escaped Soviet pilot. Still in shock from the car accident that killed her mother barely a month earlier, Shelby struggles with her grief, an emotionally distant father, and having to start...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Like most young children, Mimi loves Christmas time, so much so that she doesn't even mind the bitter cold. But while her friends plan to ask for skates, sleds, coats and boots for Christmas, Mimi wants a straw hat, new sandals, a polka-dot bathing suit, and maybe even a beach ball. Mimi especially looks forward to her annual parranda, the Puerto Rican version of Christmas caroling. But when she learns that her family won't be able to go to Puerto...
1115) Surprisingly Sarah
Author
Series
Emmie and friends volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Told from alternating points of view, this story about friends, crushes, and drama follows best friends Sarah and Leo as their friendship is put to the test when Sarah wants to ask Leo's friend Ben to the school dance"--Provided by publisher.
1116) Una cancion para ti
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
"La regla de oro de Remy es no enamorarse nunca, jam�s, bajo ninguna circunstancia. Es una chica inteligente y muy popular, pero teme involucrarse en una relaci�n y siempre decide cortar antes de que la cosa se ponga seria. Sin pretenderlo, es una rompe-corazones, como su...
1117) The absinthe underground
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In the Belle Époque city of Severon, Sybil Clarion and Esme Rimbaud, best friends with a secret crush on each other, find themselves drawn into a risky heist proposition from a mysterious Green Faerie named Maeve, which could offer financial security but may endanger their carefully constructed lives.
After running away from home, Sybil Clarion is eager to embrace all the freedom the Belle Époque city of Severon has to offer. Instead, she’s traded...
1118) Year on fire
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"What secrets will people keep--or reveal--to protect those they love? This novel, set against the frightening backdrop of an encroaching fire season, sparks reflection about friendship, the allure of romantic love, and loyalty to family. Can a single kiss change everything? It was a year on fire. They fell in love. Someone was bound to get burned. The Spark: Just days before the start of junior year for twins Arch and Immie and their best friend,...
1119) The Chaos
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Toronto sixteen-year-old Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy.
1120) Lost in Rome
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Lucia "Lucy" Rossi thought she was going to be a camp counselor for the summer, but, thanks to a very fortunate twist, she ends up in Rome, Italy, helping out at her aunt's restaurant, Amore Pizzeria. Lucy can't wait to see some ruins, eat all the gelato she can, and maybe say a few buongiornos to some cute Italian boys. But Lucy arrives to Italian trouble. Her aunt is in danger of losing her business, thanks to a flashy new pizzeria down the road...