Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia has a primetime interview in which she manages to alienate almost everyone. Mia is swept up in a...
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Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
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Author:Ishola-Ayodeji, AbiSummary:For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. More than anything, Patience wants to...
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Author:Vassanji, M. G.Summary:"In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to immortality have been overcome. As society approaches the prospect of eternal life, a new problem must be confronted: with the threat of the brain...
- Author:Brar, Kuljinder KaurSummary:
A debut picture book that explores the importance of pronouncing names properly and celebrates cultural identity. Saajin loves his name--he loves it so much that he sees it spelled out in the world around him in his snacks, in the sky...
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Author:Chappell, Crissa-JeanSummary:Half native. Half white. One hundred percent nothing. My mom doesn't want me. My dad just got out of jail. They want me to go live with him on the reservation, in the Everglades. Trouble is, everybody there just ignores me. At least I...
- Author:George, JessicaSummary:
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be...
- Author:ATWOOD, MargaretSummary:
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take...
- Author:Andersen, H. C.Summary:
« Au sommet des montagnes suisses, au creux des grands glaciers, vit la Vierge des glaces, redoutable reine des neiges éternelles. Le jeune Rudy lui a échappé de peu et, depuis ce jour, elle attend de pouvoir enfin l'étreindre...
- Author:Wang, WeikeSummary:
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves - and herself - while grappling with...
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Author:Thomas, RebeccaSummary:I'm finding my talk And it may take some time, But I'm learning to speak In a language that's mine. A response to Rita Joe's iconic poem "I Lost My Talk," and published simultaneously with the new children's book edition illustrated by...
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Author:Joe, RitaSummary:I lost my talk, the talk you took away when I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. One of Rita Joe's most influential poems, "I Lost My Talk" tells the revered Mi'kmaw Elder's childhood story of losing her language while a resident...
- Author:Maas, Sarah J.Summary:
Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak--but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth ... a truth about her heritage that could change her life--and her future--...
- Author:Maas, Sarah J.Summary:
The heir of ash and fire bows to no one. A new threat rises in the third book in the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak, but now she must...
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
Stross offers a Kafkaesque tale in which a man, Robin, awakes in a clinic with severe memory loss. Finding himself targeted by a deadly opponent, Robin takes a calculated gamble and volunteers to be one of the subjects of an unusual...
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Author:LE GUIN, Ursula K.Summary:When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking" - a violent talent shared by members of his family - he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which...
- Author:Thom, Kai ChengSummary:
A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation's faction leader did the same. Tobias's transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents...
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Author:Grushin, OlgaSummary:This novel follows a young girl as she reaches adolescence and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love, until one day, near the end of her life, she finds herself alone.
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