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2) Toasty
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Toasty, a piece of toast, believes he is a dog deep down in his crumbs, but realizes he is very different from all the other dogs.
3) The meadows
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone hopes for a letter--to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to burn even brighter. When Eleanor is accepted at the Meadows, it means escape from her hardscrabble life by the sea, in a country ravaged by climate disaster. But despite its luminous facilities, endless fields, and pretty things, the Meadows keeps dark secrets: its purpose is to reform students, to condition...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great celestial peacekeeper of the three systems, a terrible secret lies buried. The daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. When she meets Joshua, a mortal boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, a Disciple from a persecuted religious minority, Freida is compelled to break ranks with the gods...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can't remember. Stripped of his true name, he yearns to recover his identity. Atia would never dream of allying with someone like him, but when she breaks a sacred law and the Gods send monsters to hunt her, Silas offers...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer before senior year. Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia. At her job in the local nursing home, she meets Lena, an eighty-year-old lesbian woman, who tells her stories about what it was like growing up gay in the 1950s and 60s. As Claire becomes more confident in her identity, she is caught between two loves: Sophia, and Pen, a new girl. --
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jason Sloane and his seventh-grade friends are the first to sign up for a strange new club that monitors school security footage, but when the new computers show the club members themselves as unlikable high school seniors five years in the future they scramble to solve the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men; my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness"--
14) Huda F cares?
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
15) Rainbow!
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2024]-
Language
English
Description
Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press, a division of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously illustrated debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West"--
"Before Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog in November of 2016 from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived in a snowy place. But there, he could own land, realize his dream of being an artist, and start a family--the Millennial dream. Over the next...
17) Skip!
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: January 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Description
"Jay often feels that like they are a nobody. Beah, on the other hand, is fierce, charming, athletic--and OBSESSED with the street skipping art, Double Dutch. But Jay's friendship with their new bestie Beah is intense, both in and out of Double Dutch. As Beah and Jay help each other grow into the people they will become, it challenges their friendship and their own identities."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries' plan...
20) Big
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
More Lists...
Description
"Once there was a girl. She had a big heart and very big dreams. And it was good. Until it wasn't. The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning and bestselling creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out...
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