Topical/Coming of Age

  • Jacob Have I Loved: A Newbery Award Winner

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    Katherine Paterson’s remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and comin

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    • Author: Paterson, Katherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 0064403688
    • Language: English
  • Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk!

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    In this heartfelt and hilarious new novel from Greg Howard, an enterprising boy starts his own junior talent agency and signs a thirteen-year-old aspiring drag queen as his first client.

    Twelve-year-o

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    • Author: Howard, Greg
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 11 2020
    • ISBN10: 0525517529
    • Language: English
  • The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

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    The bestselling author of Pledged and The Teachers returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America’s teens

    In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to

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    • Author: Robbins, Alexandra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: August 07 2007
    • ISBN10: 140130902X
    • Language: English
  • Bad Girls

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    Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

    Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins.

    In Sarmiento Park, the green h

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    • Author: Villada, Camila
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1635422027
    • Language: English
  • Queen of Clubs

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    • Series: The Queen of Thieves #2
    • Author: Marsh, Beezy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063342715
    • Language: English
  • The Juvie Three

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    Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone.

    All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second

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    • Author: Korman, Gordon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 03 2017
    • ISBN10: 1484798430
    • Language: English
  • Lu

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    Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds.

    Lu was b

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    • Series: Track #4
    • Author: Reynolds, Jason
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 23 2018
    • ISBN10: 1481450247
    • Language: English
  • Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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    Named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago Tribune

    From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editors’ Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of A

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    • Author: Espach, Alison
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250823145
    • Language: English
  • Other Voices, Other Rooms

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    Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Capote, Truman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 01 1994
    • ISBN10: 0679745645
    • Language: English
  • Chasing the Spotlight

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    Chasing the Spotlight is the fourth book in a series that travels alongside four friends as they deal with teen life in Riverbend, Indiana. The novel inspires girls and young women to deepen their rel… [more below]

    • Series: Riverbend Friends #4
    • Author: Sumpolec, Sarah Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 17 2021
    • ISBN10: 1589976509
    • Language: English
  • The Karma Map

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    A youth group’s temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for a former mean girl and sunshine boy to explore their past and their feelings for each other in the much-anticipated novel abou

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    • Author: Sharma, Nisha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1662500785
    • Language: English
  • Spark

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    When a shy girl and her dragon-like companion discover their country’s idyllic weather comes at a steep–and secret–cost, they recruit fellow students to defy authority and attempt to spread the trut[more below]

    • Author: Durst, Sarah Beth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 09 2020
    • ISBN10: 0358206383
    • Language: English
  • Midnight Without a Moon

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    “A powerful story.” —Kirkus Reviews It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cot… [more below]

    • Author: Jackson, Linda Williams
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: December 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1328753638
    • Language: English
  • Anne of Green Gables

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    When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don’t get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River trai

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    • Series: Anne of Green Gables #1
    • Author: Montgomery, L. M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 09 2014
    • ISBN10: 1770497315
    • Language: English
  • Talk with Her: A Dad’s Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters

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    A comprehensive guide to help dads support their daughters through the preteen and teen years up to adulthood

    “Communication” with your daughter doesn’t mean having “big” conversations all the time. C

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    • Author: Wolf, Kimberly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 31 2022
    • ISBN10: 0143135279
    • Language: English
  • Four by Four

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    “In Four by Four, Mesa’s sentences are clear as glass, but when you look through you will be terrified by what you see.”–Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel

    Set entirely at Wybrany College–

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    • Author: Mesa, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 230
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 1948830140
    • Language: English
  • My Big Heart-Shaped Fail: A Tween Comedy of Errors

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    Award-winning middle-grade novel from the author of Just Add Magic and Saltwater Secrets . . . .

    In this hourly time-stamped, action-packed tween comedy of errors, Abby Gray, feeling weighed down by he

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    • Author: Callaghan, Cindy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1684631610
    • Language: English
  • Jaq: A Top Boy Story

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    Based on the hit Netflix series, this novel delves into the lives of Top Boy‘s beloved characters. Written by creator and co-producer Ronan Bennett, it promises to be an exciting new chapter of this b

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    • Author: Bennett, Ronan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063337932
    • Language: English
  • Twelve Hours in Manhattan

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    After a chance meeting in New York city, Bianca Curtis and “Eric,” better known as insanely famous Korean actor Park Hyun Min, spend twelve perfect hours together-only to be torn apart at the end of t[more below]

    • Author: Gabriel, Maan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1647423953
    • Language: English
  • Smoke

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    Pattyn’s father is dead. Now she’s on the run in this riveting companion to New York Times bestseller Burned, which Kirkus Reviews calls “a strong, painful, and tender piece about wresting hope from t[more below]

    • Author: Hopkins, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: February 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 1416983295
    • Language: English
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