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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Seventeen-year-olds Daisy, a talented violinist with cerebral palsy, and Noah, a great cellist with severe anxiety, plan to use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition, but when they are chosen to play a duet, they worry their differences will sink their chances.
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Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
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Biblioasis
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English
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants."--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
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Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. So she's careful. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie's orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly's cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly's totally not dying of loneliness -- except for the part where she is. Luckily,...
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Little Island Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Saoirse can't wait to leave school--but just before the Leaving Cert her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse, and her rumbling anxieties spiral out of control. Saoirse feels herself flailing in swirling waters that threaten to suck her into the depths. No one can save her--not her lovely man; not the gorgeous boy who tries hard to love her; not her fabulous best friend; and certainly not her cheap-wisdom counselor. Can Saoirse,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On the water, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George's past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. George's best friend, Tess, is about to become a teen mom; her friend Laz is in despair about the climate crisis; her gramps would literally misplace his teeth if not for her, and her moms fill the house with fuss and chatter. When her...
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English
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Charlie and Parker are twins-- but they're polar opposites. He's fearless, outgoing; she's careful, reserved. And Charlie is officially in remission from cancer. Parker lands a prestigious summer internship at the hospital and is headed to Harvard in the fall to study pediatric oncology-- and her relationship with Charlie has been on the rocks since his diagnosis. Parker meets Finn, who's been leaving strange graffiti messages all over town. Those...
13) Pug Hill
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The average person makes 35,000 decisions every single day. Paige Collins lives in debilitating fear of making the wrong choice. The simple act of picking an art elective is enough to send her into a spiral of what ifs. When Paige is presented with two last-minute options for Christmas vacation, she's paralyzed by indecision. Should she go with her best friend (and longtime crush) Fitz to his family's romantic mountain cabin? Or accompany her mom...
16) Waiting for you
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English
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Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
17) Frightmares
Author
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"A summer acting job at a House of Horrors turns into a real-life nightmare when a cast member turns up dead--then disappears"--
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A boy who loves flying kites begins to fear flying them after his favorite kite is lost and broken. Only time and courage can help him decide whether to fly again.
19) Paper heart
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Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
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274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.
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English
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The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with-fast friends who dedicate their year...
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