Taylor Meskimen
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Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
3) Just Harriet
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Just Harriet volume 1
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Harriet Wermer is unhappy about having to spend her summer with her grandmother on Marble island until she discovers a mystery involving her Dad from when he was a boy living on the island.
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Just Harriet volume 2
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[2023]
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"There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She always tells the truth. She's loving spending her summer on Marble Island, where she is an A+ mystery-solver. Okay, maybe she doesn't always tell the truth. Actually...she has a tendency to lie quite a bit. Which is why, when one of the guests at her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast finds that their treasured pair of binoculars has gone missing, no one believes Harriet when she said...
5) Midnight sun
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"Eighteen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure even to the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, she is limited to the company of her widowed father and her best (okay, only) friend. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going. Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads...
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SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist -- and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving...
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Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the mouse discovers an outside world full of wonders Brussels...
8) Zenobia July
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Zenobia July, an excellent coder and hacker, investigates a mystery while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and presenting her true gender for the first time.
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"Fantasy and reality collide in this retelling of Beauty and the Beast about a young woman's heroic quest to save herself. Beauty's life is the stuff of fairy tales. The youngest in her family, Beauty isn't trying to catch Stephan's eye. He is the lord baron's heir, well above her family's modest station, but when he kisses her hand at a party, Beauty is swept away by his charm, his wit, and his passionate declarations of love. Hearts can be untamable...
10) Flooded
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[2020]
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Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889 was a lively, working-class factory city. Above the soot-soaked streets, an elite fishing and hunting club, built on a pristine man-made lake, drew America's wealthiest business barons. Though repeatedly urged to fix the deteriorating dam that held the lake, the club members disregarded the warnings. And when heavy rains came, the dam collapsed and plunged the city into chaos.
On that fateful day, six children found...
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Super secret super spies volume 2
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[2022]
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"Super spies reporting for duty! When Maddie Robinson and her team are assigned a new super secret mission to protect the world's most famous pop star from a mysterious foe, she knows she'll need every tool available. That's when she discovers a secret buried deep within the Illuminati's archives: a device that can predict the future, invented by renowned Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci himself! The only problem? This future predictor has been...
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2020
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"Two teenagers from broken families find solace in one another's company" in this "heart-wrenching and hopeful" YA romance novel (Kirkus Reviews).
When Adam Moynihan's oldest brother died, his life fell apart around him. Now his mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired moved out when they needed him most.
Jolene Timber is used to being a pawn in her divorced...
When Adam Moynihan's oldest brother died, his life fell apart around him. Now his mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired moved out when they needed him most.
Jolene Timber is used to being a pawn in her divorced...
13) Tell me no lies
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2022.
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Teenage sisters Nora and Sophie's bond is tested when Sophie's boyfriend Garrett goes missing after a party, and Nora, possibly the last person to see him, becomes is the primary suspect.
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2021
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When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they're the only people in the world. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. Adults are asleep, and a hush falls over the hum of daily life. Anything is possible.
It's a time for romance and adventure. For prom night and ghost hunts. It's a time for breaking up, for falling in love—for finding yourself.
Stay...
It's a time for romance and adventure. For prom night and ghost hunts. It's a time for breaking up, for falling in love—for finding yourself.
Stay...
15) Turn the tide
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[2022]
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"The Laskarises' relocation to Wilford Island, Florida, is a big key change for Mimi...Then her science teacher, Ms. Miller, shows her class a TED Talk by Melati and Isabel Wijsen. At ages twelve and ten, they lobbied to ban single-use plastic bags on their home island of Bali--and won.Their story strikes a chord for Mimi. She's twelve. Could a kid like her make such a big change in a place that she's not yet sure feels like home?"--
16) Stick with me
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[2020]
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When twelve-year-olds Izzy and Wren are thrown together by unusual circumstances, they find solace and solutions to nagging problems in their newly-formed friendship.
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[2022]
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"In Bledsoe, Georgia during a sticky summer in the mid-2000s, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles on a stilt house in the midst of a neighboring swamp, and upon Andy, a boy about her age. Andy and his father Nile Webber have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors about Nile's wife's death have chased them there and back. Andy-tall, unschooled, and living in poverty with Nile-fascinates and enamors Kay. Kay is willful and loud-mouthed...
19) Red wolf
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[2021]
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When fulfilling her duty as a shapeshifting guardian for her village means abandoning the young man she loves, the future she imagines with him, and her values, sixteen-year-old Adele must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her friends and neighbors safe.