Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming of Age

  • Smiles to Go

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    Ninth grader Will Tuppence is in control.

    He plans everything obsessively, from the perfect stargazing night with his crush, Mi-Su, to the regular Saturday-night games of Monopoly with his friends. He’

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    • Author: Spinelli, Jerry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 13 2013
    • ISBN10: 0064471977
    • Language: English
  • TIG

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    A heartwarming middle-grade story from the critically acclaimed author Heather Smith featuring Tig, a young girl struggling to find peace within herself and in her new family. For fans of Rebecca Stea[more below]

    • Author: Smith, Heather
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 0735267510
    • Language: English
  • Birdy

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    After the death of their mother, Birdy and Mouse are forced to start over in this debut novel about discovering where you belong­­–for fans of Forever This Summer and The Remarkable Journey o[more below]

    • Author: Moss, N. West
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 0316446416
    • Language: English
  • A Scar Like a River

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    From bestselling author Lisa Graff, this important coming-of-age story follows a thirteen-year-old with a mysterious scar on her face–and a big secret she feels pressured to keep

    Fallon Little has a

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    • Author: Graff, Lisa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 031657080X
    • Language: English
  • Mani Semilla Encuentra Su Voz de Quetzal

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    Para los fans de Lupe Wong no baila, de Donna Barba Higuera, y La luna dentro de m?, de Aida Salazar, llega una novela contempor?nea de escuela secundaria llena de coraje y esp?ritu activista.

    La vid

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    • Author: Lapera, Anna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646145720
    • Language: Spanish
  • Making Plans for Nigel Binty

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    A heartwarming middle grade novel about figuring out who you are when it seems like everyone else has already decided for you, for fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Gary D. Schmidt.

    Nigel Binty has spent

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    • Author: Stout, Shawn K.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1682635880
    • Language: English
  • The Moon Without Stars

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    What’s the deal with middle school, anyway? Award-winning author and artist Chanel Miller explores the glorious mess that is middle school–and the way growing up, finding friends, and discovering who[more below]

    • Author: Miller, Chanel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593624556
    • Language: English
  • I Won’t Feel This Way Forever

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    It’s the summer of 1989, and Mia is on her own–adjusting to life without her ex-best friend, Lara.

    Summer vacation starts off well enough as Mia binges MuchMusic and learns how to jar fish with her a

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    • Author: Spencer, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1459838203
    • Language: English
  • The Snowman Code

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    In this cozy winter story, a six-hundred-year-old snowman and a ten-and-a-half-year-old girl strike up an unlikely friendship as they try to bring an end to the longest winter ever.

    Article II of the

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    • Author: Stephenson, Simon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: December 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1665985348
    • Language: English
  • Face Forward #2

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    In the second book of this satisfying young middle-grade series, Abby McAdams has to deal with a lack of privacy, the onset of puberty, and all the other problems that can come with being a preteen!

    A

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    • Series: Abby in Between
    • Author: Bryant, Megan E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593226550
    • Language: English
  • The Chronicles of Viktor Valentine #2: What Lurks in the Shadows

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    New York Times bestselling author Z Brewer returns to the tiny town of Nowhere, where Viktor Valentine is facing down the world’s most dangerous dinner invitation from the mother of all vampires…lit

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  • Rhiannon

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    “I want to recommend this book to everyone.”
    –Jen Wang, author of Ash’s Cabin

    Poignant and empathic, Rhiannon is a coming-of-age graphic novel in the vein of This One Summer.

    Ever since she was littl

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    • Author: Brinkman, Kiara
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1626727236
    • Language: English
  • Rhiannon

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    “I want to recommend this book to everyone.”
    –Jen Wang, author of Ash’s Cabin

    Poignant and empathic, Rhiannon is a coming-of-age graphic novel in the vein of This One Summer.

    Ever since she was littl

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    • Author: Brinkman, Kiara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1626727228
    • Language: English
  • Finding Your Place

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    • Author: Irwin, Janice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: August 19 2025
    • ISBN10: 196634354X
    • Language: English
  • Yoli’s Favorite Things

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    “Do you know when the war will be over?”
    “You’re asking because you have older brothers, don’t you?”

    Twelve-year-old Yolanda Sahag?n, an aspiring nun raised by strict Mexican immigrant parents, likes t

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    • Author: Santana, Patricia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 0823459489
    • Language: English
  • Invisible: The (Sort Of) True Story of Me and My Hidden Disease

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    From the director of the Captain Underpants movie and Turbo comes a heavily illustrated middle grade novel full of humor and heart that captures the rollercoaster ride of growing up with an invisible [more below]

    • Author: Soren, David
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593886623
    • Language: English
  • The Witch Who Stormed the Palace

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    In this captivating sequel to The Girl Who Kept the Castle, Faye must face down the trial of three other Wizards and defeat the Shadow Queen once and for all to become the first Witch of the West. A m

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    • Author: Graudin, Ryan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 0063229463
    • Language: English
  • Truth Is: A Novel in Verse

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    From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in which a teen poet grapples with an unplanned pregnancy and determines what happens to h[more below]

    • Author: Sawyerr, Hannah V.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 1419776835
    • Language: English
  • Famous Anonymous

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    The first book in a new series about neighborhood friends who find sudden fame with a series of viral videos… only no one knows who they really are. Hannah Montana for the TikTok generation.

    Four ki

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    • Author: Baden, Morgan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 164595269X
    • Language: English
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist)

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    The hilarious and razor-sharp story of how one girl went from geek to patriarchy-smashing criminal mastermind in two short years, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Gen[more below]

    • Author: Lockhart, E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0786838191
    • Language: English
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