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1) Pardalita
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know each...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Nikki Grimes's beloved novel in verse Garvey's Choice is now a graphic novel, imaginatively and dramatically illustrated by Little Shaq artist Theodore Taylor III"--
Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading—anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight,...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Language
English
Description
"Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Even though their feelings are mutual, Akari and Kazuomi can't get their timing right. Rio realizes he likes Yuna, but he suspects his friend Agatsuma likes her too"--
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Language
English
Description
"Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Yuna and Rio have started dating, and Akari and Kazuomi are growing closer. But now that Akari's ex-boyfriend wants her back, will Kazuomi find the right time to tell Akari how hefeels?"--
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman's first brush with desire against the backdrop...
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself. Heartstopper is about friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Nat enough volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Natalie has just arrived at summer camp and soon realizes it isn't anything like the brochure. Instead of spending the summer with her best friends, Zoe and Flo, Natalie is stuck with her ex-BFF, Lily, and someone even more annoying than the endless mosquitoes: Millie Flatbottom. Even worse, she's constantly pushed out of her comfort zone and forced to come face-to-face with some of her greatest fears. Although summer camp isn't at all what Natalie...
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 9
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years... Poison has tainted the flavor of a high-ranking government agent and they are after Amy! Amy and Oliver survive the drone attack and hide at the dance, hoping for safety in numbers. Little do they know, a rogue agent of the First Contact Project is closing...
9) Blue flag: 5
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
VIZ Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
Returning from summer break Taichi and Futuba continue to transition their friendship into something more, but when Mami starts being friendly with Taichi, Futuba begins feeling anxious.
10) Rizos
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Marlene ama tres cosas: el arte, a su adorada t�ia Ruby y pasar el tiempo con Camilla, su mejor amiga. Pero su mam�a piensa que se deber�ia enfocar solamente en sus estudios y en madurar; y esto �ultimo implica alisarse el pelo todos los fines de semana para que se vea "presentable" y "bueno". Pero Marlene odia ir al sal�on y no entiende por qu�e nadie a su alrededor piensa que sus rizos naturales son bonitos. Despu�es de algunos desaf�ios...
11) Blue flag: 8
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Viz signature edition.
Language
English
12) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
13) Blue flag
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]-
Edition
VIZ Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
"An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them. For some reason, Taichi Ichinose just can't tolerate Futaba Kuze. But at the start of his third year in high school, he finds himself in the same homeroom as her, along with his childhood friend and school sports star Toma Mita. But one day Futaba opens...
14) Twins
Author
Series
Twins volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only two classes with her sister! Maureen and Francine are...
15) Break
Author
Series
Click volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her friend...
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
17) The talk
Author
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 4
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"To Amy, everyone has a flavor. For instance, Doctor Kim is like chamomile tea with lemon. Amy is finally feeling that she's made a true connection with the mysterious, flavorless Oliver, but their entire relationship is rattled--possibly forever. Amy struggles to come to terms with that friendship ending and reaches out to an old friend. She'll discover that the help of friends from all points of her life makes everything better."--Provided by publisher....
19) Hard Times
Author
Language
English
Description
Hard Times depicts the lives of ordinary people during the industrial revolution in England. Dickens brings several characters to life and weaves an interesting story about their interactions with each other. Most of these characters are poor and they live in a pollution ridden town where the economy is based on coal production.
20) Kidnapped
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of a sixteen-year-old orphan who was kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escaped and became involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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