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Reha has two lives: one that is Indian, one that is not. It is 1983, and she is thirteen, and in one life, she loves hanging out with friends, dancing to pop music, and watching Cyndi Lauper on MTV. In the other, she listens to Hindi film songs, wears homemade clothes, and spends her weekends with her Indian community. When Reha asks to wear Jordache jeans and go to a middle school dance, her mother disapproves. If only the ones who share her blood...
2) Slick
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Liza, determined to prove that her mother's boyfriend is no good, starts researching the oil company he works for. Liza discovers a lawsuit against the company for compensation that is long overdue to Guatemalan farmers. She starts a group at school called GRRR! (Girls for Renewable Resources, Really!) and launches an attack on Argenta Oil. As her activism activities increase, her objections to her mother's boyfriend become political. She is learning...
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Lavender sees herself as the miserable but tough outsider at school, while Scarlet knows she is talented and popular, but insecure on the inside--then, on their mutual thirteenth birthday, they wake up in each other's bodies and are forced to learn what it means to walk in someone else's shoes.
4) Pia's plans
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Ever since her parents separated, Pia has been desperately trying to make sure everything is perfect.
5) Fifteen
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Stan, the most popular boy in the school, asks Jane out, but despite his good looks, intelligence, and great personality, she is not sure if she is ready to date him.
6) Deenie
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A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
9) Thirteen
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Winnie years volume 3
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Winnie's thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family, and even herself.
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Breadwinner series volume 5
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When the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan, all of Parvana's hard-won gains--for her family, her school and her country--are at risk.
12) Fly away
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Marnie is forced into a leadership role on her competitive cheerleading team, but it's harder than she imagined to keep the Soar Starlings--and herself--aloft.
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Novels) volume 2
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A 336 page middle grade novel focusing on Marvel's Squirrel Girl.
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Novels) volume 1
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Doreen Green, age fourteen, is a little too busy wiping out crime in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood to focus on her overdue homework. That's because she also happens to be Squirrel Girl, a bushy-tailed, squirrel-powered Super Hero! After foiling the nefarious plot of an amateur Super Villain, Squirrel Girl is finally finding her groove--and group texting with the Avengers, like, all the time. Doreen, on the other hand, is still trying to navigate...
20) Spin with me
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Told in two voices, seventh-graders Essie, in North Carolina for just one semester, and Ollie, a non-binary, "gender weird" classmate, develop a gentle romance while Essie ponders her label.
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