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Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different--to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jericka tries to navigate the impending death of her estranged grandmother in a haunted small Maryland town.
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things her name and the fact that...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Gift middle school graduates with an informative and humorous guide to high school, featuring life-changing tips combined with funny full-color illustrations in this faux children's book for soon-to-be freshmen. Congratulations, you're officially off to high school! For a soon-to-be freshmen, life comes at you fast, and the move from middle school to high school is one of the most exciting, difficult, and, at times, overwhelming transitions you'll...
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Ashly Harris has a secret she's been keeping all her life. To everyone else she's just a seventeen-year-old party girl and problem senior at Hackley High School. She has always felt alone, and not just because she's biracial and openly bisexual. Ashly sees faeries all around her, all the time. She has learned to hide her Sight, but that doesn't change the fact that she is constantly taking the blame for the havoc that the faeries wreak. The only person...
Author
Publisher
Electric Fern
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
New in town and navigating the complexities of Alder High (go 'Varks), Geoff Smith might be a little more comfortable with a guitar in his hands than with a conversation. His father, a professor and collector of magical oddities, is a local goth hero, but that doesn't exactly boost Geoff's popularity. However, his dad's latest find, a mysterious book of spells, might be instrumental to winning a seemingly impossible bet with his crush, Corinne. In...
Author
Series
My new life as a cat volume 4
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023-]
Language
English
Description
"Nao Kazushiro is a normal high school student--until he gets in a traffic accident and winds up in the body of a cat! At first, it's all fun and games as he gets used to his new feline form, but then the novelty wears off and hunger sets in. Luckily, he's picked up by Chika, a cute girl his age who gives him food and a home off the streets. Will Nao (now Nyao) develop feelings for her? Or will he wake up in his human body once and for all?"--
Author
Series
One of us is lying volume 3
Publisher
Alfaguara, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Al principio, el misterioso letrero parece una broma de mal gusto: Es hora de un nuevo juego, Bayview . Pero cuando alguien desaparece, queda claro que ese juego se ha vuelto serio, y nadie entiende las reglas. Todo el mundo puede ser la siguiente víctima. Y ahora que un individuo inesperado ha vuelto a Bayview, las cosas empiezan a ser mortales. Simon tenía razón sobre los secretos: al final, todos salen a la luz"--
"It’s been almost two years...
8) Sakura, Saku
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
The bud of bittersweet first love takes bloom! A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya's rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her. Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she has is a note signed "Ryosuke Sakura." She discovers that a boy at her high school, Haruki Sakura, has an older...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an alternate version of the events told in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. That series told the story through the eyes of Ultimate Lucky Student Nagito Komaeda; now Goodbye Despair gives you the perspective of his arch-rival in the desperate classroom murder game, Hajime Hinata!... Beautiful white sand? Check! Refreshing ocean waves? Check! Bloody body in the beach house? Check...?!...
10) Road home
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 3
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle’s memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his father discovered he was gay. When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay—and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would...
11) Tweet cute
Author
Publisher
VR Editoras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Pepper, la perfeccionista, es la lengua mordaz detrás de los tweets de la cadena de hamburguesas de su familia. Jack el payaso de la clase, y está dispuesto a ir a la guerra por defender la tienda de comidas de su abuela, literalmente. Cuando Big League Burger roba la receta más famosa de Girl Cheesing, comienza el enfrentamiento de Twitter más icónico y sabroso. Pero mientras Pepper y Jack se matan a fuerza de memes, likes y retweets en las...
12) Alam
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. When a beautiful new student named Maysaa' joins their class, Tamer immediately falls for her and is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian...
Author
Publisher
Wonderbooks
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
Español
Description
"Ha llegado la hora de cambiar el cuento de hadas. Liz Lighty siempre ha sido demasiado negra, demasiado pobre y demasiado diferente para Campbell, el pueblo en el que vive, donde todas las chicas están obsesionadas con ser la reina del baile. Sin embargo, Liz tiene un plan para salir de allí: entrar en la banda de música de la prestigiosa Universidad de Pennington y conseguir una beca para estudiar Medicina. Pero su plan no sale bien y a Liz solo...
14) Skip and loafer
Author
Series
Skip and loafer volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
Country girl Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.