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1) Criss cross
Author
Language
English
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Author
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this Heinlein novel concerns an extremely rich, fairly old tycoon who is trying to "take it all with him." His solution is to have his mind transplanted into the body of his recently deceased secretary. Once there, he finds that her mind remains active, and together they learn to share control of her body.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
5) Chouette
Author
Language
English
Description
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette's behaviors grow...
Author
Language
English
Description
One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Max's room has his name all over it--on his blanket and night light and wall. His parents call him The One and Only Max. And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He's not the one and only after all! But when he decides to help one of the other Maxes find her missing toy, he discovers that there are other ways to be special, and that he can appreciate the...
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
10) Are you a cow?
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
14 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers respond to a chicken's questions about different animals and learn how great it is to just be themselves.
11) Winterling
Author
Series
Winterling volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identitiy.
Author
Series
Not quite narwhal and friends volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
13) Shutter
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young woman agrees to star in a filmmaker's latest project, but soon realizes the movie is not what she expected in this chilling debut novel. In the wake of her father's death, Betty Roux doesn't allow herself to mourn. Instead, she pushes away her mother, breaks up with her boyfriend, and leaves everything behind to move to New York City. She doesn't know what she wants, except to run. When she's offered the chance to play the leading role in...
14) The warrior heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
15) So many me's
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl contemplates the many different roles she plays in her family and community, including daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, student, patient, and friend.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Mallory finds a real challenge in babysitting for the troublesome Arnold twins.
17) Say my name
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Children from different backgrounds introduce themselves and convey the meaning and history behind their names, sharing their cultures and ethnicities and emphasizing the importance of identity and saying names correctly"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 268 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and memoir, an existential meditation on personal loss and the role of digital tech in how we find meaning in today's world illuminates the transition into self-defined but vulnerable intangible realities. --Publisher
19) You are life
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
Author
Series
Myth Adventures volume 15
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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