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Lumberjanes (Chapter books) volume 2
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Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin--Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley--love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen . . . and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where there are endless mysteries in the...
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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...
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Lumberjanes (Chapter books) volume 5
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"Over the years, there have been countless magical creatures spotted at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types: mermaids, moon mice, griffins, Cloudies-you name it, the campers have seen it! But there's only one group of Lumberjanes equipped to catalog all the strange happenings at the camp: Roanoke cabin. Jo, April, Molly, Mal, Ripley, and Barney are working to earn their BEAST trophy, which is an epic...
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) 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.
7) Pia's plans
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Ever since her parents separated, Pia has been desperately trying to make sure everything is perfect.
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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.
9) 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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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...
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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.
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When Hannah Malfa decides she wants to have an awesome Bat mitzvah, just like her best friend, Shira, her Grandma Mimi and Aunt Yael offer to help her prepare, even though Hannah's mom and her aunt aren't on speaking terms. As family secrets burst out into the open, Hannah must decide what's more important--her family, or her bat mitzvah--in this bittersweet story about food, family, and finding yourself.
15) I rise
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A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance.
Ayo's mother founded the biggest civil rights movement to hit New York City in decades. It's called 'See Us' and it tackles police brutality and racial profiling...
16) The lovely shoes
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In 1950s Ohio, ninth-grader Franny feels isolated and self-conscious at high school because of her deformed leg and feet, but her irrepressibly high-spirited mother is determined to find shoes for Franny to wear at the school dances.
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League of Archers volume 1
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"Ellie Dray has grown up idolizing Robin Hood but when the famous outlaw is killed right before her eyes--and she is accused of his murder--she finds herself questioning all she thought she knew. Now an outlaw herself, she and her friends must fight to clear her name and stop the local baron's evil plans"--Provided by publisher.
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Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales-concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch-are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch's help to investigate the asylum's strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly...
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