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83) Here we are now
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
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While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Clara Starling lives a life of dull rules...until the day Uncle disappears, leaving Clara alone in his old mansion. When streetwise orphan Peter and his rescue cat arrive unexpectedly, the children seize the chance to live by their own rules. But when the pair's wild romps through the halls of Braithwaite Manor reveal a single, worn ballet slipper, they are hurled into a mystery that will lead to London's glittering Royal Opera House and the unraveling...
86) Wild pitch
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Robbie Hammond, the Dulaney Orioles' pitcher, has to persevere through a losing season"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
88) Final word
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Series
The Winterton deception volume 1
Language
English
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"Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known."--
89) The breathless
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English
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Mae Cole is determined to uncover who is responsible for her sister Roxanne's mysterious death. Ro's boyfriend, Cage, disappeared that night-- and shows up exactly one year later with no memory of the past year. The search for answers takes a terrifying turn when Mae starts to dig up long-buried secrets about her family's dark past-- and the fact that maybe, just maybe, Ro isn't lost forever.
90) The lost year
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
91) Even if we break
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English
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Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for three years, but each is hiding secrets and the game itself seems to turn against them.
92) Ophie's ghosts
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English
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"Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie learned she can see ghosts. Now Ophie and her mother are living in Pittsburgh with relatives they barely know. In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place, Mama has gotten Ophie a job as a maid in the same old manor...
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English
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Hoping to find some distant relatives as a birthday present for her father, Dana has a DNA test run and is surprised when the results indicate that she has a half brother, Brandon.
Dana Fields plans to surprise her father with the results of a DNA test. He never knew his parents, and she hopes to find him some distant relatives for his birthday. Instead, Dana discovers a half brother her age-- and his very existence means her parents' happy marriage...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
96) Under their skin
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
98) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, "Sunny Side Up" is at once a compelling "problem" story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world. " --
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After she is sent to her grandmother's orphanage in Maine when her father becomes a fugitive from the law in 1940s America, Augusta Neubronner has to deal with her classmates' suspicions over her German name and tries to find comfort in playing in the orphanage band.
100) Scumble
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English
Description
Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
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