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"Teenager Boo has pink hair and a very vivid imagination that she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer...
2) Ultraviolet
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Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
4) Virtually me
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"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
5) Next stop
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Still grieving her brother's death, Pia, a soft-spoken middle-schooler, embarks on a bus tour that changes her life.
6) The last she
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The last woman on Earth after a mysterious plague wipes out the female population, Ara finds an ally in Kaden, a man willing to do anything to help her as she searches for the truth of her existence.
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"Today, they're the world-famous superheroes, the self-assured saviors of Paris: Ladybug and Cat Noir. But not too long ago, Marinette was a clumsy high school student who let Chloe walk all over her, and Adrien was a shut-in who couldn't even go to school, thanks to his controlling father. How did these two end up getting their powers and becoming the beloved guardians of the City of Lights? It's time to look back and see the moments that changed...
8) Olivetti
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Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
9) Timid
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Cecil Hall and his family have just moved from Florida to Massachusetts, near Boston. Cecil is anxious about making friends because he doesn't know where he'll fit in. His older sister, Leah, thinks he should befriend the other Black kids at his new school, but Cecil isn't sure how he'd go about doing that. He wants to be known for his comics-making talent, anyway. But the few kids who are impressed by Cecil's art aren't always nice to him. When one...
11) Unicorn boy
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"The first few years of Brian Reyes's life were unremarkable--nothing weird about this kid, no sir. Then, one day, a bump appeared on his head, and it grew...and grew...and grew until it was a full-blown, sparkling, singing unicorn horn. That's absolutely the last thing a shy kid like Brian wants, but destiny waits for no unicorn boy. Luckily, Brian has his reassuring pal Avery to keep him grounded as weird occurrences start stacking up, like Brian's...
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"Poignantly told from a young boy's perspective, the popular and award-winning memoir centered on a Mexican family working California's fields is now a powerful graphic novel that will appeal to readers of Illegal and They Called Us Enemy."--Publisher's description.
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"Every autumn, the royal family sponsors a candy-crafting competition in the capital, and-following in her late mother's footsteps-Anne's got her eyes on the prize. To that end, she sets off with her bodyguard and two companions in tow, but her plans go awry when the silver sugar she refined to present at the event suddenly goes missing...--
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"A soldier must choose between his heart's desire or his duty to country in this gripping novel of friendship and survival. Maxence aEtienne believes fiercely in the Revolution and longs for his name to be listed among the heroes bringing liberty to France. It's been almost two years of non-stop war, but the monarchy has fallen, and he's beginning to see the changes so many of his countrymen have fought for. With war still raging, Maxence is transferred...