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Author
Language
English
Description
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served the Ojibwe on a remote reservation. Now, nearing the end of his life, Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. He is afraid of what this will mean for his parishioners. To complicate his fears, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life a of the possibly false saint, Sister Leopolda. Damien alone knows the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah...
23) Renegade
Author
Series
Mila 2.0 volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mila is back on the run--this time with potential boyfriend Hunter by her side. As they search for a man who might know more about her mysterious past, Mila must rely on her android abilities to protect them from the people who want her dead. But embracing her identity as a machine leads her to question the state of her humanity, as well as Hunter's true intentions.
24) Ugly girls
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Traces the chaotic breakdown of a friendship that shapes and unravels the identities of two rebellious girls in the wake of a stalker's predations.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Is our gender something we are born with, or are we conditioned by society? Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today's society. She tackles a wide range of issues, such as gender-neutral parenting, gender dysphoric children, and the neuroscience of being transgender. Debating today's accepted...
26) Being
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons' shocked comments: 'What the hell is that?' 'It's me,' Robert thinks, 'and I've got to get out of here.' Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.
28) The strangers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
30) The brightsiders
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lambasted in the tabloids after a night of reckless partying, bisexual teen drummer Emmy King turns to her friends for support and evaluates the wisdom of getting romantically involved with her bandmate Alfie, which may trigger another scandal.
Author
Series
Vault of dreamers trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Rosie has escaped Forge School but finds herself trapped in the body of another girl. --
32) Arclight
Author
Series
Arclight volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The first person to cross the barrier that protects Arclight from the Fade, teenaged Marina has no memory when she is rescued but when one of the Fade infiltrates Arclight, she recognizes it and begins to unlock secrets she never knew she had.
33) No body's perfect: stories by teens about body image, self-acceptance, and the search for identity
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of Headmaster Boddy's murder, Blackbrook Academy has been thrown into complete disarray. Half the student body hasn't bothered to return to campus--but those who have include Orchid, Vaughn, Scarlett, Peacock, Plum, and Mustard, now warily referred to by the other students as the Murder Crew. When another staff member is found dead and an anonymous threat begins to target the group, each of the teen's opportunistic reasons for sticking...
35) The becoming
Author
Series
Dragon heart legacy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In Talamh, Breen is not the ordinary young schoolteacher he knew her as. Here she is learning to embrace the powers of...
37) Obsession falls
Author
Series
Virtue Falls volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do--she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter, and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face to face with the knowledge that, to live her life again,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From a debut author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age--a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country. Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these...
39) An empty death
Author
Series
Inspector Stratton volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
War-weary Detective Inspector Ted Stratton investigates the suspicious death of a doctor only to realize that someone in the victim's hospital is committing murders while assuming someone else's identity.
40) Scary stuff
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mystery volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
While visiting California, antique picker and associate detective Jane Wheel becomes embroiled in two cases involving her family, one of eBay-related mistaken identity involving her brother, and an attack on a friend of her parents.
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