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21) Juego de niños
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A Damián le gusta la música; a Mercedes, la pintura, y a Marcos, la escritura. Les encanta jugar juntos. Pero hay algo que les preocupa: pronto se irán a una nueva casa. Juego de niños es un canto de amor a la creatividad, al cambio y, en definitiva, a los niños que han tenido que dejar su país en busca de un futuro mejor. Back cover.
Danny loves music; Molly loves painting; and Marcus loves writing. And they all love playing together....
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically...
23) Windfall
Author
Language
English
Description
Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts. Through it all, Teddy and Alice have leaned on each other....
24) The moon within
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion; she must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes.
25) Haven's secret
Author
Series
Powers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Ellie McFadden has intuitive gifts. She can sense what other living things are feeling and talk to animals. Too bad she can't connect with her twin sister, Parker. Parker McFadden has kinetic gifts. She can cause shocks to the earth and produce heat energy that explodes from her body like fire, especially when she is angry. The sisters aren't aware of the legacy they inherited from their mother until, on their thirteenth birthday, two mysterious relatives...
26) Stay with me
Author
Series
Come back to me volume 2
Pub. Date
2016,
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Didi Monroe believes Zac Ridgemont is the love of her life, but when Didi grows very close to wounded marine Noel Walker during her internship at a military hospital in California and then tragedy strikes, Didi must decide if her and Walker's love is worth fighting for.
Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The kids discover their beloved Mr. Terupt is moving away at the end of the school year and begin hatching plans to make this year unforgettable.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Cash Carter, the young, world-famous lead actor of the hit television show Wiz Kids, is a favorite of the tabloids and paparazzi, who take notice of his every move. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked when he actually accepts their invitation. Getting a taste of the spotlight, this unlikely crew takes off on a journey of narrow escapes from photographers, not-so-glamorous mishaps, and surprise turns. But...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can. It's not the first time they've been apart, but Jane's determined it willbe the last. Twelve days out in the boonies of Three Boulders makes Jane miss Pop more than ever. But as the days go by, she realizes that family is more than who you're related to--and that a home...
30) Monarch rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean leaving all her loved ones behind, and embracing an uncertain future.
32) Redeeming 6
Author
Series
Boys of Tommen volume 4
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Aoife is absolutely unwilling to give up the boy she loves, so she is determined to save him from self-destruction. She becomes trapped in a world she doesn't understand, but her heart is stronger than what's trying to drag her down. Aoife will never give up on Joey, no matter how much is stacked against them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While recovering from a game-related concussion, football star Isaiah wonders what his life would be like without the game.
Football saved Isaiah's life, giving him structure and discipline after his sister's death tore his family apart. When he suffers a concussion on the field, Isaiah wonders what his life would look without football. All his friends are on the team, and Isaiah knows they can't win without him. There's also the scholarship offer...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A group of nine high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.
To hone his writing skills and learn more about the power of words, Darrian enrolls in Mr. Ward's class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important to say, and in sharing...
36) The hive
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's the near future -- the day after tomorrow -- and the government has shut down online bullying once and for all. With BLINQ, its new social media platform, users can "like" or "share," but they can also "condemn" posts -- and if condemns reach a certain level, users can exact punishment from the original poster in real life. No more anonymous trolling! Instead... hive justice. Seventeen-year-old Cassie McKinney is angry at everything. She's just...
37) Coming up Cuban
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Four children from very different backgrounds...learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed after Fidel Castro's rise to power"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pack your bags and join Tabitha and Fritz as they journey across the world to switch lives.Tabitha the cat is tired of her easy, coddled life. An adventure across the world might spice things up! Fritz the elephant dreams of celebrating his birthday with an exciting voyage to a faraway place. So after the two connect online via Lair-bnb, they pack their bags and head across the globe to trade places. Will Fritz love the city life? Will the rain forest...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year-old Samantha Littlefield and her older sister, Caitlin, are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. Sam wants nothing more than to go back to the way thing were...before she spoke up. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Sam falls in love with the animal characters, especially the charming trickster fox, Ashander. Then one day Ashander...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after his mom’s unexpected diagnosis, as Evan’s plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer . . . Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she’s headed to performing arts college in LA, a star on the...
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