Starting a new life in the Thank the Lord Boarding House, a place that houses "misguided souls," Jolene discovers that she is not alone when she meets Richard Peterson, a high-powered businessman disillusioned by romance and material...
Friendship
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Author:Forster, GwynneSummary: - Author:Gailey, SarahSummary:
A moving, darkly funny novel about six teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars author Sarah Gailey, who Chuck Wendig calls an "author to watch." Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best...
- Author:Gray Smith, MoniqueSummary:
When We Are Kind celebrates simple acts of everyday kindness and encourages children to explore how they feel when they initiate and receive acts of kindness in their lives. Celebrated author Monique Gray Smith has written many books on...
- Author:McLemore, Anna-MarieSummary:
Winner of the 2016 Tiptree Award! Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Stonewall Book Award Honor.
“McLemore’s second novel is such a lush surprising fable, you half expect birds to fly out...
- Author:White, SusanSummary:
Keefe Williams lives a childhood of neglect and disconnect, feeling completely invisible. Known only for the story of the night his parents died and the freak event that killed them, he suffers silently holding on to the one thing in...
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Author:HORVATH, PollySummary:Although Ivy and her family welcome the Halibuts, not all the townspeople are pleased to have circus people as neighbours, especially when more circus families move in.
- Author:Hunting, HelenaSummary:
Avery Spark is living her best life. Between her friends, her sisters, and Spark House, the event hotel her family owns, she doesn't have much time for anything else, especially relationships. She'd rather hang out with her best friend...
- Author:Getten, KereenSummary:
"A wonderful story with great heart, mystery, and insight. Kereen Getten is a bright new voice."--Clare Vanderpool, author of Newbery Medal winner Moon Over Manifest and Printz Honor book Navigating Early For fans of deeply...
- Author:Gray, CeciliaSummary:
Kat is destined to be a star and her big break has arrived at last! As the assistant to a celebrity classmate on the set of a feature film, she's going to show everyone she has what it takes. That is, until she discovers pursuing her...
- Author:Gray, CeciliaSummary:
Kat is destined to be a star and her big break has arrived at last! As the assistant to a celebrity classmate on the set of a feature film, she's going to show everyone she has what it takes. That is, until she discovers pursuing her...
- Author:Teichner, MarthaSummary:
A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner. There...
- Author:Parks, Electa RomeSummary:
A whole decade has passed since Baldwin, Brenden, Bria, and Christopher last saw each other. Now they are reunited in a small North Carolina town to attend the funeral of one of their own. Baldwin, the romantic, Brenden, the do-gooder,...
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Author:Arthur, A. M.Summary:For Ryan Sanders, the Paige Community Center is more than a place where he teaches at-risk teens about musical theater. He found a sense of belonging there during one of the hardest times of his life. With the center facing a financial...
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Author:Brand, DionneSummary:The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal,...
- Author:Buxbaum, JulieSummary:
When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.
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Author:Dunbar, HeleneSummary:In less than a second... two of the things Cal Ryan cares most about—a promising baseball career and Lizzie, one of his best friends—are gone forever. In the hours that follow... Cal's damaged heart is replaced. But his life will never...
- Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:
Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.
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Author:Withrow, SarahSummary:What happens to best friends when one of them gets a boyfriend? Gloria and Shawna are about to start high school, but they still enjoy acting out their fantasy futures with cut-throat games of Barbie. Even in their real-life plans it's...
- Author:Spencer, Kim.Summary:
"Readers will be left with a rich image of Mia's world and the family and people that surround her as well as a strong sense of how culture and class impact people's experiences. A touching exploration of identity and culture."-Kirkus...
- Author:Van Eekhout, GregSummary:
Jake Wind has shapeshifting abilities he can't control. Keeping his powers in check is crucial, though, if he wants to live a normal life and go to middle school. Things feel like they're going his way when he survives his...
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