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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear...
Author
Series
Adventures of the Flash Gang volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Pittsburgh, orphaned Lewis Carter and his ragtag gang of friends face new dangers and challenges when their hideout is threatened by floods and people experiencing homelessness start mysteriously disappearing from the streets. As the gang goes all out to investigate, the evidence once again seems to implicate the steel tycoon who had Lewis's father killed.
244) Echo on the bay
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new police chief plays audience for the locals, who routinely approach him with bottles of liquor and stories to tell. As the city council election approaches, and as tongues are loosened by drink, evidence of rampant corruption piles up-- and a long-held feud between...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The teenage children of a convicted serial killer try to prove his innocence when a true-crime podcast reinvigorates interest in the case. Their fate intersects with cults, killers, cops, and convicts on the backroads of West Virginia in one brutal, unforgettable crash"--
In a poor West Virginia town decimated by the opioid epidemic, teenagers Henry and Jane have it worse than most. Their father is Hollis Lusher, a convicted serial killer known...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
Author
Series
Newspaper Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A group of kid reporters fight for their right to run a newspaper in the second book of the middle-grade Newspaper Club series from an award-winning author."--Provided by publisher
248) Everywhere blue
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie, who suffers from anxiety, loves music, math, and everything in its place, but when her older brother Strum disappears from his college campus, her family starts slipping away from her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
375 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him 'Bugs Bunny,' and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected--until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded by enemies. Ten long...
250) Needlework: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums....
251) The fragile edge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Vega straddles two worlds-- the hardscrabble Bronx where he grew up as the child of a Puerto Rican single mother, and the upscale, mostly white, suburban county where he now serves as a police detective. Yet despite his sense of never belonging, he's a good and decent cop-even if the multi-million-dollar civil suit he's facing says otherwise. His own troubles take a back seat when Vega learns that a court officer has just been shot and killed...
252) Joy, to the world
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Joy, a twelve-year-old transgender girl, fights for her right to cheer in Texas.
Joy, a twelve-year-old trans girl, just moved to Texas with her mother and older brother. Her family has accepted Joy as the girl she is early in her transition, with little fuss, leaving Joy to explore her love of sports, competition, teamwork, school spirit, and worship. But when she is told she's off the cheerleading team, Joy wants to fight for her right to cheer....
253) Fire becomes her
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where magic can be bottled and power sipped, seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis tries to rise in society on the arm of Lindon Holt, but when she agrees to spy on his father's political opposition in exchange for his approval, she begins to question where her true allegiances lie.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George...
255) Some kind of hate
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm, he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish friend, Jake. But when things turn violent, Declan must figure out what he actually stands for.
After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, Declan Taylor accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice -- a contemporary middle grade novel full of spunk and activist heart. Manuela Mani Semilla wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala, a place that has always been more of a mystery than an answer. Mani can't imagine leaving behind Las Nerdas, her band of misfit friends,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she's in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna's Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn't think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents' insistence that she "broaden her horizons" and try something new--something that isn't art. But when Glenna's Portraits falls on hard...
258) The thud
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
123 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Noel's mother has a stroke, his world is turned upside down. Especially when a man comes, who tells Noel that he can't stay in the only home he's ever known. He has to move from his apartment and his city to some kind of care facility, in a town he's never heard of. For the first time, Noel is on his own. Who can he trust? Who can he love? There is a village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is largely populated and run by people with developmental...
259) No somos de aquí
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
398 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estado Unidos. En este impresionante retrato de tres vidas injustamente destrozadas, basado en hechos reales, Jenny Torres Sanchez resalta el sacrificio de los migrantes en la frontera sur a través de una narración vívida y conmovedora."--
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And...
260) Viva's voice
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the day she was born, Viva's voice has always been the mightiest in the room. But when Papi's bus driver union goes on strike, quiet Papi is the family member who must speak up. He feels nervous, but Viva's strength gives Papi the courage he needs to find his own powerful voice.
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