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Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic self.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Rodriguez has had a tough life. She tells her story, starting with the moment her mother tries to escape their company town by very nearly driving Andrea's dad's car off a cliff. Luis moved his family to the small town of Woronoco, Massachusetts, following the 1950s promise of prosperity. At that time and in that place, Mr. Rodriguez's pursuit of the American dream signifies an alienating pesadilla (nightmare) for Mrs. Rodriguez, making her...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren-which Jenny never had-Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence....
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about, because he's Black, and her parents are racist. Weighed by a depression she can't seem to shake, Belaen...
8) Trajectory
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Atlas has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her team-Books,...
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