Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: A day given to innocent hopes and youthful dreams. A day no one in attendance will ever forget. A year ago, Principal Linda McDonald arrived at Guadalupe determined to overturn the school's reputation for truancy, gang violence, and neglect. One of her initiatives is Career Day - bringing together children, teachers, and community presenters in a celebration of the future. But there are some in attendance who...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Autism Acceptance Month
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Autism Acceptance Month
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Description
Recently estranged from her best friend and weeks away from shifting from only child to big sister, seventh grader Beatrix Lee consoles herself by writing haiku in invisible ink and hiding the poems, but one day she finds a reply--is it the librarian with all the answers, the editor of the school paper who admits to admiring her poetry, an old friend feeling remorse, or the boy obsessed with visiting the local labyrinth?
4) Star-crossed
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.
5) Keeping pace
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to regain her sense of accomplishment after losing her top-class ranking to Jonah, Grace decides to compete against him in a Labor Day half-marathon, but as they train together, she learns valuable lessons about what truly matters.
Author
Series
Codename conspiracy series volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When a desperate man in a nondescript black suit asks thirteen-year-old Carson Fender to deliver a mysterious package for him, the middle schooler discovers there's something going on in his sleepy North Dakota hometown he had never expected--something involving the CIA"--
Author
Series
Nerd girls volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
As punishment for their perpetual infighting, the Nerd Girls and the ThreePees (Pretty, Popular, Perfect) must compete together in the Academic Septhalon.
Author
Series
Nothing but trouble volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Two smart girls in one small town use their combined genius to liven up their world--one prank at a time"--
Author
Language
English
Description
WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Readers have also been given a special look at another side of Auggie's story with The Julian Chapter...
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Readers have also been given a special look at another side of Auggie's story with The Julian Chapter...
11) Unfriended
Author
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table, she finds herself caught in a web of lies and misunderstandings, made unescapable by the hyperconnected social media world"--
13) Dream on, Amber
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
14) The bully book
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is The Bully Book? Part mystery, part tragedy, part comedy. When the author was eleven, he was bullied. This book is loosely based on incidents that happened to him in sixth grade. Eric Haskins, the new sixth-grade bully target, is searching for answers. And unlike many of us who experienced something awful growing up, he finds them. Though they may not be what he expected.
15) Undead ahead
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to survive after zombies take over Phoenix, Arizona, Zack, Rice, and Madison discover a zombie antidote and embark on a mission to save the nation from the undead scourge.
16) Worser
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following Christmas break, the girls are back together, but everything seems different with the addition of Alicia's cousin from Spain who is spending the semester at Octavian Country Day School.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
To boost their popularity at their exclusive Westchester County private school, eighth-grader Massie and the other girls in the Pretty Club must find dates in time for Skye's "Famous Couples" party.
19) Aftermath
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
After her younger brother's death from a heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy moves to a town that was devastated by a school shooting four years earlier, where she must navigate different kinds of grief.
Author
Series
Marty Pants volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Marty gets ahold of a page from the diary of his sister, Erica, he expects to find a bunch of brags about what it's like to be the better Pants sibling. But what he discovers instead is something HUGE. Erica's written a secret about who or more accurately, WHAT Marty actually is. And though the page is torn in half, Marty, through his unique deductive skills, determines that he is undoubtedly a big-toothed, sharp-clawed, hairy-faced werewolf!...