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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home)....
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Growing up working-class Catholic in 1970s Brooklyn, Claire Joyce--the youngest sibling of three street-smart older brothers, an overwhelmed, taxi--driving father, and an alcoholic mother--relies on the stability of basketball to usher her toward maturity and success, only to find her future jeopardized by the prejudices of her time.
3) Inside out 2
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Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen years old, Riley must navigate her emotions and Sense of Self as she finds her way leading the Foghorns hockey team, laying plans for high school and with her friends.
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Annika Rose and her father Wes have spent the years since the death of Annika's mother in self-imposed social isolation on their farm on the edge of the woods. When a young woman named Tina moves into a house down the road, the result is a sudden explosion of feelings in both father and daughter and a fierce rivalry. At stake in the competition is not only their relationship, but the life of the vulnerable young woman at the center...
5) Takedown
Author
Publisher
DCB
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With an upcoming international tournament where top college recruiters will take note, sixteen-year-old Rowan trains to earn a scholarship and secure her planned future with her Shakespeare-thespian boyfriend, Ozzy. But when a costly treatment for her father's worsening ALS symptoms emerges in Sweden, Rowan decides to train with an MMA fighter at her gym to fight and make money in an underground -- and illegal -- fight club. As Rowan delves into...
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