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Giles, L. R. (Lamar R.),


School Library Journal starred, January 2019. Booklist starred, January 2019. Kirkus Starred, November 2018. New York Times, February 2019. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2019. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2019. Library Media Connection, March 2019. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2019. Junior Library Guild. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Connection, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined to find out who murdered their friend.
Date Published:2019

School Library Journal starred, January 2019. Booklist starred, January 2019. Kirkus Starred, November 2018. New York Times, February 2019. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2019. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2019. Library Media Connection, March 2019. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2019. Junior Library Guild. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Connection, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined to find out who murdered their friend.

Date Published:2019

Barda

Ukazu, Ngozi.


"Fourth world created by Jack Kirby." When Granny Goodness decides her champion, Barda, is becoming too soft, she assigns her the task of breaking the seemingly unbreakable Scott Free, but as Barda questions Granny's motives she finds herself drawn to Scott in a way she never expected.
Date Published:2024

Bo the brave

Elliott, Rebecca,


A unicorn named Bo and his friends go camping to earn patches for their unicorn blankets. When the group hears noises outside their tent, they investigate even though they are scared and learn lessons about bravery and owning up to their mistakes.
Date Published:2020

Luck of the Titanic

Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather),


School Library Journal starred, May 2021. Booklist starred, May 2021. Pub Weekly, April 2021. Kirkus Starred, March 2021. Horn Book, September 2021. Junior Library Guild. After smuggling herself onto the RMS Titanic, British-Chinese teenager Valora Luck reunites with her twin brother and tries to convince him that their acrobatic training could be their ticket to a better life.
Date Published:2021

Mallory and the trouble with twins

Nopra, Arley,


"Based on the novel by Ann M. Martin"--Cover. A graphic novel based on Ann M. Martin's original novel in which Baby-Sitter Club member Mallory perseveres when faced with caring for troublesome twins.
Date Published:2025

Romeo and Juliet

Silvermoon, Crystal.


Graphic novelization of: Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. "Age: Young Adult 12+"--Colophon. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2018. A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's Play "Romeo and Juliet" in which two people from warring families.
Date Published:2018

Blue stars.

Magoon, Kekla,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, After Riley Halfmoon's mother gets a job in Urbanopolis, she and her parents move in with her activist grandma, and they are also joined by her cousin Maya Dawn while her parents are on active duty in Japan. Outgoing Riley is certain the two cousins will become instant best friends, but introvert Maya misses her parents and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts, and the cousins start to settle into their new normal, but when their school culture is threatened by the vice principal, joining student council feels like a way to help. The girls soon realize they won't be able to accomplish anything on their own, so Maya and Riley team up to win the presidency, take down Mr. Balderdash, and save their school.
Date Published:2024

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, After Riley Halfmoon's mother gets a job in Urbanopolis, she and her parents move in with her activist grandma, and they are also joined by her cousin Maya Dawn while her parents are on active duty in Japan. Outgoing Riley is certain the two cousins will become instant best friends, but introvert Maya misses her parents and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts, and the cousins start to settle into their new normal, but when their school culture is threatened by the vice principal, joining student council feels like a way to help. The girls soon realize they won't be able to accomplish anything on their own, so Maya and Riley team up to win the presidency, take down Mr. Balderdash, and save their school.

Date Published:2024

Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein : based on a true story /

Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967-


School Library Journal, December 2017. Publisher's Weekly, November 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Library Media Connection starred, January 2018. Junior Library Guild. Horn Book, November 2018. Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Connection Star, School Library Journal, For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal, December 2017. Publisher's Weekly, November 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Library Media Connection starred, January 2018. Junior Library Guild. Horn Book, November 2018. Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Connection Star, School Library Journal, For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies.

Date Published:2018

Soar

Bauer, Joan, 1951-,


School Library Journal, February 2016. Booklist starred, December 2015. Library Media Connection starred, August 2016. Kirkus Starred, December 2015. Horn Book, October 2016. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2016. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2016. Publishers Weekly Annex, December 2015. Junior Library Guild. Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Date Published:2016

School Library Journal, February 2016. Booklist starred, December 2015. Library Media Connection starred, August 2016. Kirkus Starred, December 2015. Horn Book, October 2016. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2016. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2016. Publishers Weekly Annex, December 2015. Junior Library Guild. Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.

Date Published:2016

Five feet apart

Lippincott, Rachael,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, Voice of Youth Advocates, Booklist, November 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2019. Stella Grant and Will Newman both have cystic fibrosis. Stella has to stay away from anything and anyone that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Will has an antibiotic-resistant bacteria and just wants to go out and see the world instead of the inside of hospitals. To be safe, they need to stay six feet away from each other, but as Stella and Will start to fall in love, safety measures begin to feel like a punishment and they reexamine the risks they're willing to take to live.
Date Published:2019

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, Voice of Youth Advocates, Booklist, November 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2019. Stella Grant and Will Newman both have cystic fibrosis. Stella has to stay away from anything and anyone that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Will has an antibiotic-resistant bacteria and just wants to go out and see the world instead of the inside of hospitals. To be safe, they need to stay six feet away from each other, but as Stella and Will start to fall in love, safety measures begin to feel like a punishment and they reexamine the risks they're willing to take to live.

Date Published:2019

Voices in the air : poems for listeners /

Nye, Naomi Shihab.


Section I. Messages -- Section II. Voices in the air -- Section III. More worlds -- Biographical notes. School Library Journal starred, January 2018. Kirkus Starred, November 2017. Booklist, December 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2017. Junior Library Guild. Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, "Ninety-five poems pay tribute to essential voices past and present that have the power to provoke us, lead us, and give us hope" --Provided by publlisher.
Date Published:2018

Section I. Messages -- Section II. Voices in the air -- Section III. More worlds -- Biographical notes. School Library Journal starred, January 2018. Kirkus Starred, November 2017. Booklist, December 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2017. Junior Library Guild. Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, "Ninety-five poems pay tribute to essential voices past and present that have the power to provoke us, lead us, and give us hope" --Provided by publlisher.

Date Published:2018

Frozen in time what ice cores can tell us about climate change /

Van Vleet, Carmella,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Introduces readers to paleoclimatology through an ice core expedition, and illustrates the collection, transport, and study of ice cores. Explains how scientists study ice cores to learn about the history of the Earth's climate, and to find solutions to today's climate change. Includes color photographs, sidebars, experiments, and a glossary of terms.
Date Published:2024

Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Introduces readers to paleoclimatology through an ice core expedition, and illustrates the collection, transport, and study of ice cores. Explains how scientists study ice cores to learn about the history of the Earth's climate, and to find solutions to today's climate change. Includes color photographs, sidebars, experiments, and a glossary of terms.

Date Published:2024

Everything I thought I knew

Takaoka, Shannon.


Publishers Weekly, September 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2020. "Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Six months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves, which is strange, because she wasn't interested in surfing before her transplant. And that's not all that's strange. There's also the vivid recurring nightmare about crashing a motorcycle in a tunnel and memories of people and places she doesn't recognize. Is there something wrong with her head now, too, or is there another explanation for what she's experiencing?"--OCLC.
Date Published:2020

Publishers Weekly, September 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2020. "Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Six months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves, which is strange, because she wasn't interested in surfing before her transplant. And that's not all that's strange. There's also the vivid recurring nightmare about crashing a motorcycle in a tunnel and memories of people and places she doesn't recognize. Is there something wrong with her head now, too, or is there another explanation for what she's experiencing?"--OCLC.

Date Published:2020

The graveyard book

Russell, P. Craig.


"This v. contains chapter six through the end of the book"--Dust jacket. School Library Journal, October 2014. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, December 2014. Booklist, October 2014. Horn Book, April 2015. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2015. The second volume of a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book, in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. But Bod must remain in the graveyard, for leaving it could mean his death at the hands of a man named Jack--the man who murdered Bod's family.
Date Published:2014

"This v. contains chapter six through the end of the book"--Dust jacket. School Library Journal, October 2014. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, December 2014. Booklist, October 2014. Horn Book, April 2015. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2015. The second volume of a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book, in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. But Bod must remain in the graveyard, for leaving it could mean his death at the hands of a man named Jack--the man who murdered Bod's family.

Date Published:2014

Kristy and the snobs

Chau, Chan,


When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
Date Published:2021

Bo and the witch

Elliott, Rebecca,


The unicorn Bo Tinseltail wants to meet a witch, but unfortunately most witches live high in the clouds and are rarely spotted by unicorns. Then one day a witch, Charm, crash-lands in Bo's Sparklegrove Forest. When Bo and his unicorn pals realize Charm is in trouble, they scramble to help her fly back home.
Date Published:2024

The gods' revenge

Marsh, Katherine,


Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Starting the eighth grade at Accademia del Forte, Ava Baldwin now has her sights set on exposing the gods' lies that keep them in power. However, she faces a new adversary in headmaster Perseus, who is intent on making her life miserable. When her friend Layla is banished by him, Ava and her friends stage a rescue mission, in which they must brave treacherous terrain to free their friend and face the wrath of the gods if they don't succeed.
Date Published:2025

Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Starting the eighth grade at Accademia del Forte, Ava Baldwin now has her sights set on exposing the gods' lies that keep them in power. However, she faces a new adversary in headmaster Perseus, who is intent on making her life miserable. When her friend Layla is banished by him, Ava and her friends stage a rescue mission, in which they must brave treacherous terrain to free their friend and face the wrath of the gods if they don't succeed.

Date Published:2025

Mary Anne's bad-luck mystery

Cheng, Cynthia Yuan,


Ever since Mary Anne threw away a chain letter she got in the mail, the Baby-sitters Club has been having the worst luck. As Halloween approaches, Mary Anne worries something truly terrible is going to happen. So when she receives another note in the mail with instructions to wear a bad-luck charm, she quickly decides to comply before things get worse.
Date Published:2023

Kristy and the walking disaster

Crenshaw, Ellen T.,


When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she decides to start a team of her own and names it Kristy's Krushers. While they might not be the best team around, especially since they have Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, on their team, but at least they are having fun. Things get serious when Bart's Bashers challenge the Krushers to a game, and Kristy must find a way to shape up her ragtag team of misfits.
Date Published:2024

When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she decides to start a team of her own and names it Kristy's Krushers. While they might not be the best team around, especially since they have Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, on their team, but at least they are having fun. Things get serious when Bart's Bashers challenge the Krushers to a game, and Kristy must find a way to shape up her ragtag team of misfits.

Date Published:2024

Peer pressure & relationships

Marlowe, Christie.


Real-life stories -- What makes peer pressure dangerous? -- Staying safe and being prepared -- What can you do to stay safe?. Describes what peer pressure is, why it can be dangerous, how to handle it safely, and offers real stories of kids who have faced peer pressure.
Date Published:2015