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Melanie Gillman , illustrator
(3,476)
Summary: "Charlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So naturally, she's spending a week of her summer vacation stuck at an all-white Christian...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL GIL
Location: YA Graphic Novels
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
Summary: Born in the Library, daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring its ever-changing tunnels, and communing with its gods--but then she meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to...
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![Boy proof [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63986@2x.jpg)
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Cecil Castellucci
(3,316)
Summary: Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles high school senior and cinephile Victoria Jurgen hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives...
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![Princess in love [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39862@2x.jpg)
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Meg Cabot
(56,623)
Summary: In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
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![Borderline [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55267@2x.jpg)
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Allan Stratton
(830)
Summary: Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
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![Genius squad [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61465@2x.jpg)
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Catherine Jinks
(3,775)
Summary: After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an...
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![The mermaid's mirror [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61539@2x.jpg)
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L. K Madigan
(4,311)
Summary: Lena, almost sixteen, has always felt drawn to the waters of San Francisco Bay despite the fears of her father, a former surfer, but after she glimpses a beautiful woman with a tail, nothing can keep...
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![The wrong hands [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61681@2x.jpg)
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Nigel Richardson
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated when he saves a baby after a plane crash and meets a beautiful girl.
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![Flip [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63662@2x.jpg)
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Martyn Bedford
(3,380)
Summary: A teenager wakes up inside another boy's body and faces a life-or-death quest to return to his true self or be trapped forever in the wrong existence.
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![Set in stone [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56630@2x.jpg)
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Linda Newbery
(770)
Summary: The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.
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![The stolen one [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53715@2x.jpg)
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Suzanne Crowley
(1,644)
Summary: After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
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![Jealousy [downloadable ebook] / a strange angels novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54694@2x.jpg)
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Lili St. Crow
(22,931)
Summary: Dru's best friend, Graves, and her strange and handsome savior, Christophe, are ready to help her take on the ultimate evil. But will their battle for Dru's heart get in the way of her survival?
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![I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46135@2x.jpg)
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Josh Lieb
(4,370)
Summary: In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he's extremely stupid and lazy, but he's actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.
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![Dreamland [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/59002@2x.jpg)
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Sarah Dessen
(80,244)
Summary: After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
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![Jerk, California [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53695@2x.jpg)
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Jonathan Friesen
(3,072)
Summary: Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.
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Lisa See
(92,881)
Summary: The story of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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Call #: F SEE
Location: Adult Fiction
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![The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane [eBook] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/165308@2x.jpg)
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Lisa See
(92,472)
Summary: The story of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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![The Buddy files [downloadable ebook] / the case of the mixed-up mutts](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/65697@2x.jpg)
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Dori Hillestad Butler
(303)
Summary: While attending obedience class with his new humans, Buddy the dog helps solve a mystery involving two Pomeranians that were switched at the dog park.
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![The Truth-Teller's tale [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56633@2x.jpg)
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Sharon Shinn
(4,453)
Summary: Twins Eleda, who can tell only the truth, and Adele, who cannot reveal others' secrets, are sorely tested by a newly arrived pair of handsome dance instructors who seem to harbor a secret.
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![Riding freedom [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44748@2x.jpg)
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Pam Muñoz Ryan
(7,559)
Summary: She had the courage to follow her dreams. Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight,...
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Ryan La Sala
Summary: "Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his...
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Ryan La Sala
Summary: "Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his...
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![Incantation [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61445@2x.jpg)
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Alice Hoffman
(8,309)
Summary: During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
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![The discovery [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/65552@2x.jpg)
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Marley Gibson
(591)
Summary: While awaiting DNA test results that could determine the identity of her biological father, high-school senior Kendall Moorehead and her friends use their psychic abilities against an evil, Civil...
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![I am not Joey Pigza [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/36593@2x.jpg)
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Jack Gantos
(864)
Summary: The award-winning Joey Pigza series continues in this rocket-paced audiobook where Joey discovers what identity and forgiveness really mean. Joey Pigza is knocked for a loop when his good-for-nothing...
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Mesha Maren
(378)
Summary: When Alex and Elana move from small town Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex...
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Call #: F MAREN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Country girl, city girl [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61457@2x.jpg)
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Lisa Jahn-Clough
(101)
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Melita, the sophisticated daughter of a New York actress, comes to visit Phoebe, who has been raised by her father on a farm in Maine, Phoebe discovers she has confusing feelings about their developing friendship.
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![Once a witch [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60922@2x.jpg)
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Carolyn MacCullough
(15,346)
Summary: Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the...
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![Almost perfect [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55258@2x.jpg)
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Brian Katcher
(8,756)
Summary: With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
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![Lost and found [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56071@2x.jpg)
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Andrew Clements
Summary: Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
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![Candor [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55256@2x.jpg)
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Pam Bachorz
(6,107)
Summary: For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a...
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![Born confused [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61161@2x.jpg)
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Tanuja Desai Hidier
(5,238)
Summary: Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. She's spent her whole life resisting her parents' traditions. But now she's turning seventeen and things are more complicated than ever. She's still recovering...
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![Nightshade [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/57584@2x.jpg)
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Andrea R Cremer
(82,833)
Summary: Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it's their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shapeshifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she's faced with a decision that could change her whole world.
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![The princess diaries [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39896@2x.jpg)
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Meg Cabot
(249,389)
Summary: Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne. Well, her father can lecture...
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![Princess in the spotlight [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39899@2x.jpg)
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Meg Cabot
(60,889)
Summary: Since Mia's the brand-new crown princess of Genovia, indomitable dowager princess, Grandmere, arranges a national primetime interview for her. With just a few innocent remarks, Mia manages to enrage...
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![The sea of monsters [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39830@2x.jpg)
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Rick Riordan
(1,031,766)
Summary: Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
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Jenny Ferguson
Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after...
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Jenny Ferguson
Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after...
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![Mexican whiteboy [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61646@2x.jpg)
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Matt de la Peña
(5,231)
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
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![The false princess [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/58470@2x.jpg)
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Eilis O'Neal
(15,060)
Summary: For sixteen years, Nalia has been raised as the princess of Thorvaldor, but one day she learns that her real name is Sinda and that she is part of a complicated plot that would change the future of her country forever.
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