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1) Asperfell
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Series
Asperfell trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Only the darkest and most dangerous of Mages are sentenced to pass through the gate to Asperfell. Not one has ever returned. Never did Briony dream she might set foot in the otherworldly prison of Asperfell. She was, after all, neither Mage nor criminal. She was simply her father's little whirlwind--fingers smudged with ink, dresses caked with mud--forever lost in a book or the spirit-haunted woods surrounding her family's country estate. But Briony...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a history grad student, follows her thesis advisor from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a fresh start. There she befriends seventeen-year-old Honor, who sparks a familiar passion within her. Feeling that she can't...
4) Mermaids
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A teenager follows along as her mother moves from town to town--and man to man--in this coming-of-age novel: “Both hilarious and tragic . . . a radiant debut.” -- The New York Times Book Review The inspiration for the cult-classic film starring Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, and Cher, this novel is narrated by Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old helplessly dragged by her mother from place to place, brief affair to brief affair. When they settle...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future where a smart young woman who questions the new world order is accused of being a terrorist -- an intense, unputdownable read by the author of The Girls Taking place over the course of 48 hours in 2024, This Little Light draws readers into a universe of born-again Christians and celebrity worship where abortion is once again illegal and both religion and surveillance run amok. Heroine Rory...
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Language
English
Description
Giovanna's pretty face has changed - it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Where must she look to find her true reflection and a life she can claim as her own? Giovanna's search leads her to two kindred cities that fear and detest one another - the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. Adrift, she vacillates...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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The What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Girls Written by experienced educator and her daughter in a reassuring and down-to-earth style, The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Girls gives sensitive straight talk on: the body's changing size and shape; the growth spurt; breast development; the reproductive organs; the menstrual cycle; body hair; diet and exercise; romantic and sexual feelings; and puberty in the opposite sex. It also includes...
8) Last Breath
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home--and after that shocking night, Charlie’s world was never the same. Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those with no one else to turn to. So when Flora Faulkner, a motherless teen, begs for help, Charlie is reminded...
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Francie, who has been traveling through Europe for more than five years, now finds herself resentful upon returning to her Midwest hometown Jefferson to deal with a family crisis. When she gets home, Francie confronts a crisis of her own . . . all of her old friends are married or otherwise leading what they deem as exciting lives. There may be no place like home, but compared to Europe and the liberating skills she has learned as an artist, she struggles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Francie Nelson is charming, saucy, and spoiled. Her father thinks it would be a good idea for her to see how other people live-in this case, the other people are the English. So she packs up and, with heels dragging the whole way, travels to what looks, at first, like the land of gloom. Her British fog lifts when she meets some boys. If only she didn't feel so dumb and dumpy in Fairfields' school uniform! But, like her English hosts,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After her sojourn in England, vivacious Francie Nelson strikes out on her own-but this time she's not reluctant to do it. Her goal? To become a famous artist. Unfortunately, after she unexpectedly ends up spending a year in Portugal, she is required to serve as companion to her ailing Aunt Lollie. Alas, the art lessons she so longed for must be set aside. Oh, but wait! Maybe there's hope. Not to be thwarted, the headstrong and impetuous Francie manages...
12) The Chaperone
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Hendrix's dystopian society is somewhat of a Handmaid's Tale for YA, and offers a dark world with a glimmer of hope."- Booklist, STARRED review
Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules:
Deflect attention.
Abstain from sin.
Navigate the world with care.
Give obedience.
Embrace purity.
Respect your chaperone.
Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone....
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The scene is a small town in Maine in the 1950s. Louisa Fisher, called "Fish" by her friends, yearns for true love. She also wants to be a writer, hoping for a bestseller before she is twenty. Unnerved by the boys at school with their leering question "What Do Cowboys Like?", Fish is afraid to show ignorance and makes up for it with fanciful flights of prose in the novel she is secretly penning.
14) True grit
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Language
English
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Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A Truly Yours Digital Edition. . .Her husband's death left a huge hole in Kelly Coyle's heart and a vacancy in the lives of her three daughters, too. So when Kelly's furnace broke down, God sent the perfect man for three jobs. Harold Smith knows it will be a challenge, but he can't wait to take on the roles of husband and father in a house of girls. But when Kelly's oldest daughter drops a bombshell on their wedding day, Kelly begins to fear that...
16) Virtual Silence
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ginny, Sharon, Terri, and Bev are all senior honor students in high school in a rural community in upstate New York. They hardly ever cut school, but on the day that they do--driving south to New Jersey--they find themselves in the wrong spot at the wrong time as an unemployed loner goes on a shooting spree. Those who return home face the nearly impossible task of making sense not only of the act, but of their own lives.
Author
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
God will give you blood to drink. . .An ordinary teenager finds out what witch-hunting is all about?in her own everyday world.Deliverance ?Delli? Willis, a normal, almost-sixteen-year-old, finds herself dreaming wild dreams about a girl in 1692 who is also named Deliverance. And then, to Delli?s amazement, the stuff of dreams appears in her classroom unit on the Salem Witch Trials! Is it just a coincidence when 1692 Deliverance finds herself entranced...
18) The Lies We Tell
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
You can never escape your past ... ' The Lies We Tell has a sense of tension and skewed reality from page one. Delightfully creepy and skilfully plotted ... it's a can't-wait-to-get-back-to-it book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.' Hilary Boyd, author of Thursdays in the Park. 'After a dramatic opening, The Lies We Tell develops into an intriguing story full of slow-burning suspense.' Sophie McKenzie, author of Close My Eyes and Here We Lie. The last...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
What's happening to my body? Is this normal? This fact-filled journal and activity book makes it fun for girls to find answers to their many questions about the physical and emotional changes that accompany puberty. With quizzes, checklists, games, and illustrations throughout, My Body, My Self for Girls also includes journal pages and lots of personal stories addressing girls' concerns, experiences, and feelings during this new stage of their lives....
20) Being a Girl
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Being a girl is awesome. It can also be really, really hard. And no one knows that better than girls who are going through it right now. From BFF's to Mean Girls, selfies to self-esteem, pimples and periods and peer pressure, Being a Girl tells it like it is. Friendly, funny, reassuring, and totally honest, this is the book mothers will wish they had had when they were younger, and the one girls will turn to again and again.
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