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"Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies-Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend-help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them. Recklessly, he confronts the good-ole-boy responsible for Aubrey's...
22) Chula the fox
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Publisher
Chickasaw Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After a surprise attack on a hunting party leaves Chula, a Chickasaw boy living in the Homeland during the turbulent eighteenth century, without his beloved father, Chula finds himself thrust into the challenging world of a Chickasaw warrior. Haunted by his father's restless spirit, Chula looks to his Uncle Lheotubby to help him become a warrior. Despite his youth, he is determined to join the men who seek retaliation, as he vows to avenge his father....
23) Patchwork
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Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--
24) The ever after
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English
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In the magical world of the Trylle, Ulla Tulin continues her search for family and discovering of secrets in the legendary First City, but is held hostage by the Alvolk and spends time trying to regain her memories. Nestled along the bluffs of the forested coast lies the secret kingdom of the Omte--a realm filled with wonder ... and as many secrets. The Ever After closes the last trilogy of the long-running Trylle series.
Ulla Tulin's journey to...
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Series
Wingfeather saga volume 1
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English
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"Janner Igiby, his brother, Tink, and their disabled sister, Leeli, are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they will need all their gifts and all that they love to survive the evil pursuit of the venomous Fangs of Dang, who have crossed the dark sea to rule the land with malice. The Igibys hold the secret to the lost legend and jewels of good King Wingfeather of the Shining Isle of Anniera."...
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Series
Omte origins volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When Ulla Tulin took her internship at the Mimirin, the only mystery she thought she'd have to solve was that of her birth parents. After a girl named Eliana gets kidnapped while in her care, Ulla knows she has to find out the truth of who Eliana really is--and the only way to do that means traveling to the Omte capital, the place she suspects her mother is from. Ulla didn't expect that when she arrived she would discover the identity of a Skojare...
27) Crossing
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English
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The death of Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend Agim--who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality--gives him hope for the future. Together the two decide to leave everything behind and try their luck in Italy. But the struggle to feel at home--in a foreign country and even in one's own body--will have corrosive effects,...
28) Lone wolf
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
So many people think Akela is a wolf that she starts to believe them, but after exploring the world outside her home, she returns to her pack, the Parker family.
29) My shape is Sam
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Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a place where jobs are based on shape, Sam, who looks like a square but longs to roll like a circle, discovers his true, unique shape.
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
31) The best at it
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English
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Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
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2023.
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English
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After a disastrous promposal at a party, seventeen-year-old Theo has an existential crisis in an empty bedroom, but as the night progresses, various classmates also seek refuge from the party, and Theo finds he is not as alone as he thinks he is.
33) Rick
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends and discover his own identity, which may just be to opt...
34) Thunder Boy Jr
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name... a name that is sure to light up the sky.
Author
Series
How to be a supervillain volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old do-gooder Victor Spoil gets a job at the library, he uncovers a plot by the librarians to hypnotize all the adults of the world.
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English
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2021].
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English
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"Forced into a parallel reality by dimension-hopping enemies, Serenity, a brilliant but awkward teen, must impersonate her alter-ego as a resistance leader, or else lose all hope of returning to her own world."--Inside front jacket flap.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen...
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2016.
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English
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Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action--life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a secret, thrilling power she doesn't get to experience much at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty...
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