Topical/Coming of Age

  • The Real Deal

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    Is it harder to keep a secret when the world is watching – or to tell the truth when no-one is listening?

    Belle Simon was just 12 years old when she was one of six girls plucked from obscurity to star

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    • Author: Devlin, Caitlin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 364
    • Publish Date: February 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662520190
    • Language: English
  • O Lo Uno O Lo Otro / Either/Or

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    «Tiene un don para hacer que el universo parezca como ese seminario de literatura agudo y benévolo al que te gustaría acudir […] Esta novela te conquista . –Dwight Garner, The New York Time[more below]

    • Author: Batuman, Elif
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 8439741197
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Thing about Luck

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    The winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck–which is exactly what Summer must d[more below]

    • Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 04 2013
    • ISBN10: 1416918825
    • Language: English
  • Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

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    The New York Times bestselling “taut, sophisticated thriller” (BCCB, starred review) packed with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.

    They say Delia burned herself to death in her stepfath

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    • Author: Weingarten, Lynn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 05 2016
    • ISBN10: 1481418580
    • Language: English
  • Did I Mention I Miss You?

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    From Estelle Maskame, author of the sensational Wattpad books, comes the final installment in the addicting DIMILY series that follows three unforgettable summers of secrets, heartbreak, and forbidden

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  • The Dan Gutman Collection (Boxed Set): The Homework Machine; Return of the Homework Machine; Nightmare at the Book Fair; The Talent Show

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    Four of Dan Gutman’s funniest novels are now available together in a paperback boxed set for the first time!

    Middle school is hard enough but throw in an out of control machine that does your homework

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    • Author: Gutman, Dan
    • Binding: Boxed Set
    • Page Count: 816
    • Publish Date: November 08 2016
    • ISBN10: 1481497669
    • Language: English
  • Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

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    Bernice Buttman is tough, crass, and hilarious, and she just might teach you a thing or two about empathy in this novel for fans of The Great Gilly Hopkins.

    When you’re a Buttman, the label “bully” co

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    • Author: Lenz, Niki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: January 26 2021
    • ISBN10: 1524770434
    • Language: English
  • You Are a Girl Who Can Do Anything: A Very Special Book to Cheer You on and Help You Achieve Greatness

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    This book is for every girl who needs to be reminded that she can do anything she sets her mind to.
    It encourages girls to be brave and daring, and to give each day all they’ve got. With the help of a… [more below]

    • Author: Rice, Ashley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: November 15 2013
    • ISBN10: 1598427601
    • Language: English
  • The System of Dante’s Hell

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    “Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —New York Times Book Review

    “A fevered and impressionistic rif

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    • Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
    • Author: Baraka, Amiri
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: February 16 2016
    • ISBN10: 1617753963
    • Language: English
  • Opioid, Indiana

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    “Full of gorgeous language and wild insights.”–Nick Flynn

    Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana’s opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr’s timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place

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    • Author: Carr, Brian Allen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 17 2019
    • ISBN10: 1641290781
    • Language: English
  • Faint Promise of Rain

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    Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. On a rare night of rain, a daughter… [more below]

    • Author: Duva, Anjali Mitter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 289
    • Publish Date: October 07 2014
    • ISBN10: 1938314972
    • Language: English
  • Sunnyside Plaza

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    Wonder meets Three Times Lucky in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home.
    Sally Miyake can’t read, but she learns lot… [more below]

    • Author: Simon, Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 19 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316531219
    • Language: English
  • How Lucky: A Mystery Novel

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    2022 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel

    “A fantastic novel. . . . You are going to like this a lot.”–Stephen King

    “What’s more thrilling than a fictional character speaking to us in a voice we haven’t

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    • Author: Leitch, Will
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063073099
    • Language: English
  • The Great Passion

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    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

    In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thi

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    • Author: Runcie, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1635570670
    • Language: English
  • Jade Is a Twisted Green

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    For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss.

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    • Author: Turton, Tanya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1459748603
    • Language: English
  • Trinity

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    From the internationally acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, and other classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure.

    Leon Uris captu

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    • Author: Uris, Leon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798200951741
    • Language: English
  • Taking Chances

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    Her first year away is turning out to be near perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.

    Eighteen year old Harper has grown up under her career-Marine father’s thu

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    • Series: Taking Chances #1
    • Author: McAdams, Molly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: February 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 006226768X
    • Language: English
  • The Journey Back

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    A teenage boy faces his past and seeks redemption in the gripping companion book to Red Kayak

    Nine months in a juvenile detention facility was the punishment for his crime. After just a month he makes

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    • Author: Cummings, Priscilla
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 03 2013
    • ISBN10: 0142422908
    • Language: English
  • The Autograph Man

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an “intelligent … exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the trium[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Smith, Zadie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 17 2003
    • ISBN10: 037570387X
    • Language: English
  • Taming the Star Runner

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    From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton’s Taming the Star Runner explores loneliness and the need to belong, and the inevitability of change–universal struggles associated with com

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    • Author: Hinton, S. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: August 06 2013
    • ISBN10: 0385376669
    • Language: English
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