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Lei volume 1
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Anna must dig deep into her Hawaiian roots in order to save her best friend and her island from an angry fire goddess
12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best...
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's celebrated Gender Freedom Model, Gender Magic is essential reading for anyone who yearns to step into their fullest self and imagine a life beyond gendered binaries. Whether you're transgender, non-binary, cisgender, or still exploring, this compassionate and practical guide will help you experience your gender in fresh ways by teaching: -How to move from anxiety, self-doubt, and fear to a confident, proactive state of mind....
63) Criss cross
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love
64) Tell me my name
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Fern's life spirals out of control after troubled former child star Ivy Avila arrives on Commodore Island, ultimately forcing Fern to take agency over her own existence
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Language
English
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After lying on her college admissions, seventeen-year-old Jasmine needs to win her senior class election, but the Iran Hostage Crisis explodes across the nightly news and her opponent begins to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school causing Jasmine to reconcile with her identity in way she never has before
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
67) Four
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior
Author
Series
Anzu the Great Kaiju volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"All great kaiju are born with a super power to strike fear in the heart of the city. But Anzu is different. Instead of mayhem, he likes May flowers. Instead of striking fear, he prefers to be sincere. Can Anzu find a way to make his family proud and stay true to his kind self?"--
69) One jar of magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Joining her family in her community's annual New Year's Day magic-capturing ceremony, a 12-year-old girl who has always been lucky captures just one tiny jar of magic, revealing the true nature and beliefs of her loved ones
70) Talons of power
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring
Author
Series
Saints and misfits novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year
73) Muddle & Mo
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Muddle, an enthusiastic little duckling who asks a lot of questions, and Mo, a not very adventurous white goat who has a lot of patience, are best friends, but Muddle is confused about what type of animals they both are
Author
Series
Rose (Holly Webb) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With help from a mysterious ghostly mirror which once belonged to her mother, Rose seeks to discover who her real family is. Were they full of magic too, like her?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lavender sees herself as the miserable but tough outsider at school, while Scarlet knows she is talented and popular, but insecure on the inside--then, on their mutual thirteenth birthday, they wake up in each other's bodies and are forced to learn what it means to walk in someone else's shoes
Author
Series
Shugo chara volume 5
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Amu and her Guardian Characters have found a home at an elite school. But now two new Guardians have been chosen, and each has a secret. One is more complex than Amu thought, and the other may be out to betray the Guardians to the evil Easter Corporation!"--P. [4] of cover
77) UnSouled
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees
Author
Series
Shugo chara volume 7
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"All the time they've been battling the Easter Corporation, Amu and her friends have never known which side mysterious bad boy Ikuto has been on. Now Ikuto is in trouble and has only one place to hide: Amu's house! Will Amu finally learn Ikuto's secret?" -- from publisher's web site
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The Ark, a boy band, is the center of life for super-fan Fereshteh (A.K.A Angel) Rahimi. Transgender front man Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark, even if fame only amplifies his severe anxiety. The fans accept that he's trans, but keep matching him with his friend and bandmate Rowan. When Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her
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