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1802) Tom Sawyer
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Standard full frame.
Language
English
Description
Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn explore the banks of the Mississippi River in this rousing re-telling of Mark Twain's great story. Tom and Huck find adventure and trouble as their lazy summer is interrupted by a thrilling steamboat robbery.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a small town where the fantastic and the mundane blend together, young Hana's everyday life is one of exploration and discovery. As she encounters fragments both bitter and sweet, the shape of the world slowly comes into view..."--
1805) The motherless oven
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Scarper Lee's world, parents don't make children--children make parents. Scarper's father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a following sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world, it rains knives and household appliances have souls. There are no birthdays--only deathdays. Scarper knows he has just three weeks to live. As his deathday approaches, he is forced from his routine and strikes out into the unknown--where...
1806) Bee season
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann is considered an unspectacular child -- until she surprises everyone by winning her school spelling bee. But just as Eliza begins to shine, her family starts falling apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Set against the quiet and unassuming city of Huntsville, Texas, Jack "Meadowlark" Johnson, and his teenage son, Cooper embark on a journey of epic proportions. Told over the course a single day, this electrifying graphic novel recounts Cooper's struggle to survive the consequences of his father's mistakes and the dangers they have brought home to his estranged family. As Cooper and his father desperately navigate cascading threats of violence, they...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Now that Yutaka has officially decided to join the city opera, he's cast in a leading role in the ghost story The Turn of the Screw. Meanwhile, school choir president Betsuyaku struggles to prove that he and his choir are capable of winning the gold prize in the NHK All-School Choir Competition. But can he bring the choir together to achieve greatness, or will he alienate all of its members?"--
1809) Where the crawdads sing
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Playaway, unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Pub. Date
c2023.
Edition
English edition
Language
English
Description
"Russian boy soprano Vladimir Popov is touring Japan when he learns about Yutaka's amazing talent. He insists on meeting this new rival and hearing him sing, but when he watches a rehearsal of The Turn of the Screw, he doesn't mince words in telling Yutaka how he feels about the performance... Will his encounter with Vladimir be a blow to Yutaka's confidence, or will it give him the strength to continue to press onward, in both the opera and school...
1811) Our dreams at dusk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he is also terrified that he had been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Fish Ewan's illustrated coming-of-age memoir By the Forces of Gravity is told through drawings and free verse. Set in 1970s Berkeley, California, Rebecca's story reflects on a childhood friendship cut short by tragedy. In an era of laissez-faire parenting, Rebecca drops out of elementary school and takes up residence in a kids commune -- no parents allowed! -- and we follow her, bestie Luna, and their hippie cohorts as they search for love,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Kawami Higashi Middle School choir has won the district competition and is moving on to regionals, but the choir just isn''t the same without Yutaka's soprano voice. In her eagerness to bring Yutaka back, Mariko must learn to speak for herself. Will she find a way to remind Yutaka of the joy of singing?"--
1816) Sisters of the mist
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Frygea Forest... an ancient and mystical place where trolls lurk in the mossy spaces between tree trunks and changelings scamper about, causing mischief. A place that Kyra and her sisters Margot and Janna return to every year to spend the summer at their grandma's farm: roasting marshmallows, catching frogs and befriending tiny, grumpy root goblins. But this summer is different, and as teenage Margot drifts apart from her sisters, slamming doors...
1817) Juliet takes a breath
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In the second volume of Shimura Takako's superb coming-of-age story, our transgendered protagonists, Shuichi and Yoshino, have entered the sixth grade. Shuichi spends a precious gift of cash from his grandmother on a special present for himself, a purchase that triggers a chain of events in which his sister Maho learns his secret, and Shuichi inadvertently steals the heart of a boy Maho in interested in"--Publisher's web site.
1819) Incredible doom: 2
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Evol House. It may look to the unwitting outsider like a broken-down ranch house in the suburbs--but to those in the know, Evol House is the sanctuary of truant teens, punk rockers, nerds, and outcasts. At least, that's what it's supposed to be. Lately, it feels like everything's falling apart. In this thrilling sequels to Incredible Doom: Volume 1, Samir finds that life as a runaway isn't all he thought it would be; Allison spirals trying...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a rock-opera-like journey, from Mike's childhood in the UK, through high school in New Jersey, and into the nineties, when grunge ruled the day and Queen was terminally uncool. As Mike works to navigate the trials and tribulations that accompany the road to adulthood (with Queen behind him every step of the way), he must grapple with the fears we all find ourselves facing: committing to one person for the rest of our lives, pursuing...
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