A. S King
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English
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"When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board"--OCLC.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access...
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English
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"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Glory no sabe qué hacer con su vida. Marcada por el suicidio de su madre, atrapada en una amistad que se desintegra, a punto de graduarse pero sin planes en perspectiva, alberga un temor secreto: seguir los pasos de su madre, como predicen las estadísticas. Hasta una extraña noche en que Glory adquiere la capacidad de asomarse al futuro. Cada vez que mira a una persona, ve a sus antepasados y a sus descendientes. Ve acontecimientos del pasado...
8) Dig
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
9) Switch
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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520 "Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets--and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process"--
"Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy...
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens becomes his personal secret, which he believes needs to be protected from pretty much everybody.
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
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Amazon.com
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Restricted to Kelley cardholders only. Meet the all-new Kindle, now with a built-in adjustable front light so you can read indoors and outdoors and at more times of day. Purpose-built for reading, Kindle features a glare-free touchscreen display that reads like real paper, even in direct sunlight. These Kindles come loaded with all the Kindle eBooks the Kelley Library has to offer- over 300 to choose from! Everyone will find something to read and...