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Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
24202) Ten: a soccer story
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys' game."
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wicked funny and hella gay, it's time for Taylor Parker to come out about a lot of things. Taylor Parker has always been a funny girl--but when she is accepted as a finalist for a diverse writers' internship at Saturday Night Live, it turns her life upside down. If she wants a shot at winning in a little more than a month, Taylor will have to come out about both of her secrets: She wants to be a comedian...and she's a lesbian. With a mom who gave...
24204) Mia Mayhem rides the waves
Author
Series
Mia Mayhem volume 11
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mia Mayhem learns some important things about herself and her abilities during a family vacation to the beach.
24205) The body in the ballroom
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"President Teddy Roosevelt's daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated. Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin's bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she'd never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom. And such an opportunity presents...
24206) One scandalous story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and thirteen days that tarnished American journalism
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
24207) A spoonful of murder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather dies, fourteen-year-old amateur detective Hazel Wong and her best friend Daisy Wells travel to Hong Kong, where the girls find themselves framed for murder and tangled up in a family mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The essays in this book cover a variety of Brenner's encounters with people around the world. "The Target" tells of Brenner's encounters and interviews with Malala Yousafzai, both before and after the attack. "After the Gold Rush" is a September 1990 article about Donald and Ivana Trump, and their rocky relationship. Brenner also takes us into the lives of Roy Cohn, Richard Jewell, and others. The 2018 motion picture, A private war, is based on the...
24209) Speed of life
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Crystal must choose between her dream of becoming the first college student in her family, or keeping a promise to her twin sister, Amber, to raise together the baby one had in high school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation -- in Little Rock and throughout the South -- and an...
24213) Ghosting: a graphic novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
145 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Diana Prince is used to being the best in everything in school, but to beat her foe she will have to rely on her friends to help her combat this newly dangerous menace.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miep Gies, who as a girl was a refugee during World War I, recognized that the world had once again become a dark place. Especially in danger were Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, like her boss's family. This is the story of how Miep helped hide the Frank family"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
When they are thrown together for a year-long science project, Kat, who has a social anxiety disorder, and Meg, who has ADHD, bond over their common obsession with a swoon-worthy online gaming star.
Kat's anxiety makes it hard for her to talk to new people; she only feels safe in front of her computer, playing her favorite video game. Meg hates being alone, but her ADHD keeps pushing people away. When the two girls are thrown together for a year-long...
24216) Victoria rebels
Author
Series
Young royals volume 8
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.
24217) Eva y la nueva lechuza
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Hay una nueva lechuza en Arbolópolis! Se llama Julia. Eva quiere MUCHO que Julia sea su amiga, pero Julia parece no estar muy interesada en Eva. ¡Luego, Julia comienza a pasar mucho tiempo con Lucía, la mejor amiga de Eva! ¿Perderá Eva a su amiga más alavillosa?"--Cover.
Eva wants to be friends with Hailey, the new owl in her class, but when Hailey seems to prefer Lucy's company, Eva starts to feel left out, and even a little jealous of...
24218) Dead is a killer tune
Author
Series
Dead is-- (Spin-off) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica and the other viragos must find who is responsible for the haunting music that is compelling Nightshade residents to commit crimes. Can they find out who is "behind the music" before it's too late?"--
24219) Anne Frank: voice of hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of the teenage girl who dreamed of becoming a writer someday, but who died in a Nazi death camp withouth seeing her diary become famous around the world.
24220) Over the top
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Introverted sixth-grader Diva is used to her mother's excesses, but moving to a pink palace and acting as a glitzy mermaid-mascot is nothing compared to her surprise DIVAPALOOZA! birthday party.
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