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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Obie knew his transition would have ripple effects. He has to leave his swim coach, his pool, and his best friends. But it's time for Obie to find where he truly belongs. As Obie dives into a new team, though, things are strange. Obie always felt at home in the water, but now he can't get his old coach out of his head. Even worse are the bullies that wait in the locker room and on the pool deck. Luckily, Obie has family behind him. And maybe some...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives. And even then he can't stop searching. Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is planning for his life. When he learns instead that his...
83) Bouyancy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Thai
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test. Spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling his family, Chakra travels to Bangkok to make his fortune....
84) The Quiet Girl
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
85) White Girl
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back. Starring Morgan Saylor (*Homeland*). Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of the "Directors to Watch" award at the **Palm Springs International Film Festival**. *"WHITE GIRL is the powerful feature debut of a filmmaker with original vision and clear...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **Palm...
87) Virus Tropical
Publisher
Stray Dogs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Born in a not-so-conventional family, Paoloa grows up between Ecuador and Colombia and finds herself unable to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world, she will have to fight against prejudice and struggle for her independance while universe is struck by a series of crisis. Nominated for a Crystal Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**, Winner of an Audience Award at **SXSW Film Festival**. *"This light reflection on...
88) The Other Lamb
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women, teenage Selah lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. When her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970's, in a sleepy Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and James Woods star in Sofia Coppola's feature debut. Nominated for the Golden Camera Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own." - Moira MacDonald, **Seattle Times***...
90) Sugar Kisses
Publisher
One World Digital
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Nacho has a crush on Mayra, the daughter of the leader of a gang of thieves and street vendors, La Diabla. Nacho and Mayra discover love and the first steps into adulthood, despite Mayra’s mother.
91) Palo Alto
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction that centers around a shy young girl (Emma Roberts) on the cusp of an illicit relationship with her soccer coach (James Franco). Nominated for Best Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*"Palo Alto" is a delicate tapestry of suburban gothic, romance and realism, with a surprising...
92) What Richard Did
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Richard (Jack Reynor) is a popular young man with a bright future but when a drunken brawl after a house party ends with deadly consequences, his perfect life is changed forever. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of five awards including Best Film at the **Irish Film and Television Awards**. "*What Richard Did is an engrossing and intelligent drama that throbs in the mind for hours after the final credits.*"...
93) Camp Arrowhead
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After a tragedy Sophie attends a summer camp where she joins the archery team, forming a strong bond the other girls. Along the way, Sophie’s coach, Percy, helps her come to terms with her loss in an unexpected and magical way.
94) Head On
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Over a 24-hour period, 19-year-old Ari confronts his sexuality and his Greek background. Ari is obsessed with sex and has sexual encounters with multiple people, most of them gay, and attempts to fulfill the sister of one of his best friends. At the same time, he is facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual and drug taking activities.
95) Teen Spirit
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, TEEN SPIRIT is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **SXSW Film Festival**. "*"Teen Spirit,"...
96) Moss
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this coming-of-age tale set in the American South, Moss is an isolated and troubled young man who embarks, on his eighteenth birthday, on an unexpected adventure never to be forgotten. For Moss, whose mother died while delivering him, the day means freedom, especially from his father, whom Moss believes resents him for his very existence. However, it will take more than this milestone day to set him free. During a chance encounter with a woman...
97) From Nowhere
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Three undocumented teenagers are just about to graduate high school in the Bronx. But unlike the everyday problems of New York adolescents, these three live with the threat of being discovered by the authorities and deported. When one of their teachers connects them with a lawyer to help them get their papers, the teens start to dig into their family histories to assist their immigration cases. Winner of the Audience Award for Narrative Spotlight...
98) Inbetween Girl
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After being blindsided by her parents' sudden divorce, 16-year-old artistic, sardonic Angie Chen turns to secret hookups with popular jock Liam behind the back of his adored social media influencer girlfriend Sheryl. As Angie contends with her parents' divorce and her secret fling with Liam, she comes to discover what she wants and who she wants to be.
99) Fitting In
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This irreverent coming-of-age comedy follows 16-year-old Lindy, who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition. The news upends Lindy’s plans to have sex, her views on womanhood and sexuality, and her relationship with her mother. Most importantly, it changes her own relationship with herself. FITTING IN is a semi-autobiographical feature written and directed by Molly McGlynn.
100) Fig Tree
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
עברית
Description
Mina is 16 years old. The Ethiopian Civil War has been underway her entire life. She lives with her brother and grandmother in a humble house with newsprint for wallpaper. Her family is Jewish and is planning to flee Ethiopia for Israel, where Mina's mother awaits their reunion. But this plan leaves out the person Mina loves most: Eli, her Christian boyfriend, who lives in the woods so as to evade being drafted into Mengistu Haile Mariam's army. Mina...
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