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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Late 1960s, Ghana. Young Esi Agyekum is as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex lives. After she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women's secrets and men's secrets bear different consequences. As she navigates her burgeoning womanhood, Esi tries to reconcile her own ideals and dreams with her family's complicated past and troubled present, and fights to...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From backstabbing to bullying to just being left out, here's advice for girls about a whole host of friendship problems. Tips, quizzes, and real life stories about girls who have solved their friendship problems round out this timely advice book.
65) The lying game
Author
Language
English
Description
On a cool June morning, Isa Wilde, a resident of the seemingly idyllic coastal village of Salten, is walking her dog along a tidal estuary. Before she can stop him, Isa's dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, she discovers it's not a stick at all but a human bone. As her three best friends from childhood converge in Salten to comfort a seriously shaken-up Isa, terrifying discoveries are...
66) Zeroes
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don't call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't -- like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends these days. Enter Nate, a.k.a. Bellwether, the group's...
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
viii, 119 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains practical ways to improve organization, focus, study and homework skills, as well as information on making and keeping friends, dealing with emotions, improving self-esteem, overcoming sleep problems, understanding medication, and managing anxiety.
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the young Countess of Rothford is forced into an unwanted marriage with a despicable distant relative, she runs away and decides to leave the beautiful country of Osfrid behind in search of a new life. She follows a dashing student named Cedric to a place called the Glittering Court, where his family trains ordinary girls to act like nobility, ships them overseas to the New World, and profits from their marriage contracts to up-and-coming young...
71) The newcomer
Author
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1954]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Conformity in middle class America portrayed in a preadolescent boy's efforts to make good with his peers.
72) My golden days
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 3
Language
English
Description
As high school ends, Lara Jean looks forward to her father's remarriage and seeing her sister, but she must choose a college, prepare to leave home, and possibly leave her beloved Peter behind.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Guiding parents through the teenage years, a psychologist presents a four-stage model of adolescent growth to help parents anticipate common developmental changes and offers best practices for communication, decision-making, and conflict.
Author
Series
House of Night. Original series volume 5
Language
English
Description
What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you?
At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey's friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren't Neferet's secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat
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