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  • Odd & True by Cat Winters

    Odd & True

    Cat Winters

    Trudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to wonder if her older sister’s tales were just comforting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it’s Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters’ search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that’s wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.

  • Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families by Gigi Kaeser and Peggy Gillespie

    Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families

    Gigi Kaeser and Peggy Gillespie

    Based on an award-winning photo exhibit, this collection of interviews and photographs documents the feelings and experiences of "thirty-nine families who have bridged the racial divide through interracial marriage or adoption."

  • On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

    On a Sunbeam

    Tillie Walden

    In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.

  • One Family by George Shannon

    One Family

    George Shannon

    A family can be many things, in this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten.

  • Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

    Opposite of Always

    Justin A. Reynolds

    After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.

  • Oranges on Golden Mountain by Elizabeth Partridge

    Oranges on Golden Mountain

    Elizabeth Partridge

    Being sent from China to work with his uncle on Golden Mountain, Jo Lee's mother gives him words of encouragement to see him through the difficult transition to his new life in a new world in late-nineteenth-century California.

  • Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Tanya Simon and Richard Simon

    Oskar and the Eight Blessings

    Tanya Simon and Richard Simon

    A young Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany arrives in New York City on the seventh night of Hanukkah and receives small acts of kindness while exploring the city.

  • Our Gracie Aunt by Jacqueline Woodson

    Our Gracie Aunt

    Jacqueline Woodson

    When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.

  • Punkzilla by Adam Rapp

    Punkzilla

    Adam Rapp

    "Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.

  • Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters

    Rage: A Love Story

    Julie Anne Peters

    At the end of high school, Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar, but Reeve is as much trouble as she claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and already precarious relationship with her sister.

  • Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz

    Raven's Gate

    Anthony Horowitz

    Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.

  • Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan

    Reason to Breathe

    Rebecca Donovan

    In the affluent town of Weslyn, Connecticut, where most people worry about what to be seen in and who to be seen with, Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She's more concerned with feigning perfection- pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises, not wanting anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. Without expecting it, she finds love. It challenges her to recognize her own worth- at the risk of revealing the terrible secret she's desperate to hide.

  • Rits by Mariken Jongman and Wanda Boeke

    Rits

    Mariken Jongman and Wanda Boeke

    When his father runs off with his girlfriend and his distraught mother is admitted to an institution, thirteen-year-old Rits goes to live with his uncle and tries to make the best of his unusual circumstances.

  • Rosie and Skate by Beth Ann Bauman

    Rosie and Skate

    Beth Ann Bauman

    New Jersey sisters Rosie, aged fifteen, and Skate, aged sixteen, cope differently with their father's alcoholism and incarceration, but manage to stay close to one another as they strive to lead normal lives and find hope for the future.

  • Runaways, Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home by Rainbow Rowell

    Runaways, Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home

    Rainbow Rowell

    When the Runaways eliminate the Pride from Los Angeles, it leaves a vacuum of power in the city's underworld, and soon Nico, Karolina, Gert, Chase, and Molly are on the run again to uncover the truth behind their parents' past before it catches up to them.

  • Sadie by Courtney Summers

    Sadie

    Courtney Summers

    Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water. But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him. When West McCray - a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America - overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.

  • Saturdays with Hitchcock by Ellen Wittlinger

    Saturdays with Hitchcock

    Ellen Wittlinger

    Twelve-year-old Maisie feels that she has enough complications in her life: her actor uncle has moved in with her family while he recovers from an accident and her father is not pleased, her grandmother is slipping into dementia but wants to remarry, her mom has been laid off, and her best friend Cyrus, with whom she spends Saturdays watching classic movies, has revealed that he is gay--but Gary, the boy he has a crush on, seems more attracted to Maisie herself.

  • Search for Safety by John Langan

    Search for Safety

    John Langan

    Ben McKee, a new student at Bluford High School, tries to hide the bruises covering his body from his teachers and his new friends.

  • Soames on the Range by Nancy Belgue

    Soames on the Range

    Nancy Belgue

    After he gets in trouble at school for fighting, fifteen-year-old San Francisco "Cisco" Soames is sent by his hippy parents to live with his renegade uncle on a dude ranch.

  • Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

    Some Kind of Happiness

    Claire Legrand

    Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings, which soon turn mysteriously real as she realises she must save this magical world in order to save herself.

  • Split by Swati Avasthi

    Split

    Swati Avasthi

    A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years ago to escape the abuse.

  • Stoner & Spaz by Ronald Koertge

    Stoner & Spaz

    Ronald Koertge

    A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.

  • Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway

    Summer of a Thousand Pies

    Margaret Dilloway

    After her father goes to jail, Cady Bennett, twelve, is taken from foster care to spend a summer with her estranged Aunt Michelle, trying to save her failing pie shop.

  • Sunday Shopping by Sally Derby

    Sunday Shopping

    Sally Derby

    Every Sunday night a young girl and her grandmother go on an imaginary shopping trip using play money and the advertisements in the newspaper as a guide for their purchases.

  • Switch by Ingrid Law

    Switch

    Ingrid Law

    Gypsy Beaumont's magical savvy switches to its opposite when she learns that her mean and decidedly non-magical grandma has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with her family.

 
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