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Series
Akane-banashi volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Freddy wants desperately to not be noticed. She doesn't want to be seen as different or unusual, but her stepbrother Roland gets attention because he's deaf, and her little sister Mel thinks she's a private detective. All Freddy wants to do is navigate high school with as little trouble as possible. Then someone moves into the house on Grosvenor Street. Two extremely odd someones. Cuerva Lachance and Josiah aren't . . . normal. When they move in...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship.
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Language
English
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When fifteen-year-old Yasmin--obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers--sees a sinister man watching Alice Taylor from the school fence, she becomes convinced he's planning to take her. After all, who wouldn't want the popular and perfect Alice? Then Yasmin realizes if she can find out who he is before he acts, she'll be the only one who can tell the police, save Alice and become Alice's heroine. But as Yasmin discovers more about this man,...
5) Hoops
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Bedford Library: 2024-2025 MCBA Nominees
Cary Library's Best Books of 2023 - For Children
New England Book Awards
Cary Library's Best Books of 2023 - For Children
New England Book Awards
Description
"A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games...
6) Breathless
Author
Language
English
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
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Language
English
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For seven years, sleeper agent Milena Rokva has been living life as Alexandra Gastone, but now that the clandestine organization Perun from her home country of Olissa needs her active, Alexandra finds it increasingly more difficult to balance her life as a high school girl and her spy mission.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense join forces for a gripping standalone novel about a clique of popular girls whose high school friendship is marked by a tragedy that continues to haunt them decades later. Jackson and Bush take the reader's hand and twist them through this shocking tale of suspense. First they were five. Then they were four. Whose turn will it be next? At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts:...
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Language
English
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I wasn't popular before I got locked up in Straight Inc., the notorious "tough love" program for troubled teens. But when you're psychologically beaten for sixteen months, you start to absorb the lessons. The lessons in Straight were: You are evil. Your peers are evil. Everything is evil except Straight, Inc. Before long, you're a true believer. And when you're finally released, sent back into the world, you crave safety. Crave being back in the warehouse....
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 2
Language
English
Description
'Intro to Epics' is one of Wonder Woman's favorite classes at DC Super Hero High, but even for an overachiever, balancing high school literature assignments with learning to be a superhero can be tough. But you know what they say about learning-experience is the best teacher! So when Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Harley Quinn fight a cyclops, a witch, and a bevy of sirens, they're sure to learn a thing or two...
11) Quicksand
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"'Quicksand' is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months...
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Super Hero High is out for summer, which means Wonder Woman has to take her annual trip to visit her dad, Zeus. This time she's bringing a few of her super-friends along. When the girls arrive at Olympus, it's not long before the family reunion devolves into a family competition. The gods offer Wonder Woman the ability to become "full goddess" to increase her powers, but at the cost of renouncing her life at Super Hero High. Will Wonder Woman refuse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An explosion brings the DC Super Hero Girls to the rescue. As the heroes work to save the day, Lois Lane investigates the incident and discovers that the facts don't line up with the official report. Meanwhile, Batgirl sets up an online dating profile for her dad and gets the perfect candidate. Sparks fly between commissioner Gordon and the mystery woman, but do those sparks mean love, or will they ignite a fuse.
14) In the swish
Author
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Bennett Ryan is one of the region's very best basketball players. In fact, she single—handedly led her team to an undefeated State championship. But when she is forced to switch schools in her senior year, she must first fit in with her old rivals on this new team, then face her old team in the most heated playdowns of her young career."--Publisher.
15) The outcasts
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
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