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401) Sister sabotage
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Tired of playing second fiddle, new friends Santana and Casey start a club whose mission is to become their parents' favorite child by undermining their love-hoarding siblings.
402) Jayson goes for it!
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"Eighth grader Jayson Linden has had a stutter his whole life. Though his fellow classmates can sometimes be mean, Jayson tries not to let it get to him; he enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his friends. Then Jayson's best friend, Gloria, is kicked off the debate team because of her stutter and Jayson starts to notice other injustices happening at their school. In order to make their middle school a more inclusive place and to stand...
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There's nothing hijabi alien hunter Abyan wants more than to graduate from Carlisle Academy and finally rid the Earth of aliens, the Nosaru. Everything is going to plan until the Nosaru kill one of Abyan's squad mates. To make matters worse, the school admins replace her elite squad member with a sub-par new recruit, Artemis. Despite Artemis failing every test--and bringing the team down with her--their cutthroat instructors refuse to kick her out....
405) Crash landing
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"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...
406) Deaf like Pluto
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"Pluto is Kaira's favorite planet--even though now it isn't really a planet--because Pluto and Kaira are a lot alike. Pluto is...different. It didn't fit in, so it was excluded. Kaira is all too familiar with how that feels, but maybe, just maybe, things are about to start changing."--Back cover.
407) Claro de luna
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Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
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Zola has a problem. She does not hear as well as other kids. She goes to the doctor, a special doctor, to check her hearing. Zola is worried, angry and frightened, but she gets her new hearing aids. She adjusts to them with the help of her mother and father and then faces a bully at school. Zola stands up for herself, with her friends and the teacher.
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"A group of new teachers arrives at Avengers Assembly, and not everyone is who they seem! Kamala, Doreen, and Miles are back at Avengers Assembly for a new semester! When Captain Marvel announces she's adding staff to the school, the students aren't sure who could possibly join--but it looks like Cap went above and beyond, and the school is full of new teachers! With all these new teachers, it's hard to keep track of who's teaching what, and what...
412) Walk-off
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"Derek is about to turn 13, and as the school year comes to an end and summer baseball season is about to begin, Derek knows that if he does his best both on and off the field, the future will look bright next year in 8th grade, and it'll be a grand slam!"--
413) Hop aprende a nadar
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¡Splash! Mamá rana quiere que todas sus ranitas tomen clases de natación. A flotar, a nadar de espaldas, a patalear en el agua. . . Hop se esfuerza pero a menudo hace un lío de las cosas. ¡Hasta que un día se sorprende a sí mismo!
Un libro divertido y encantador sobre una ranita que encuentra su propio camino en la clase de natación. Para pequeños nadadores de 4 años en adelante. ¡Splash! Mamá rana quiere que todas sus ranitas...
414) The me you see
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Izzy adores her brother Sebastian, but during winter break she is stuck at home taking care of him all the time. Her friends from Drama I are too busy with their own exciting plans to get together with her, so her phone is her lifeline. She creates and posts videos of her cupcake creations on her Instagram account, and stays connected with her squad, even though none of them bother to text her back. When school starts up again Zac, the senior she's...
415) Clash of the gnomes!
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"THE TERRIBLES HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED to a game of CREEPOBALL, a sport that is played by all monsters on Creep's Cove Island (just don't ask them how to play it--nobody knows ALL the rules!). Their rivals? A horde of relentless, fierce, low-down GNOMES. Can THE TERRIBLES defeat these Gnomes without anyone DISAPPEARING into an ALTERNATE DIMENSION? Why are you asking me? JUST READ THE BOOK, HUMAN!"--
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Amelia's parents are over-involved volunteering as marriage counselors with their church. Her big brother Josh just got married. Her big sister, Maggie, is perfectly pretty, perfectly smart, and dates the perfect guy. On the other hand everything about Amelia feels big: her hair, her weight, and her personality. Amelia's refuge is theater. Someday she's going to be on Broadway, but this year, she'll settle for the lead in the spring musical. And she'll...
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"Eva Delgado está llena de preocupaciones. Hasta las situaciones más pequeñas la inundan de temores: ¿Y si hace una tontería? ¿Y si todo sale mal? Después de que su familia decidió hacer un gran cambio y mudarse a una nueva ciudad, sus preguntas se han multiplicado: ¿Y si no le cae bien a los niños de la escuela? En su nuevo hogar, todo parece extraño y se siente sola e invisible. Pero una persona la entiende: su maestra de segundo...
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"Yamilet quiere que la conozcan por su impecable raya del ojo y no por ser una de las únicas lesbianas en su nuevo instituto católico. La cuestión es que es difícil fingir ser heterosexual cuando Bo, la única chica abiertamente queer en la escuela, es tan irritantemente perfecta y, bueno..., tan atractiva. A sus dieciséis años, Yami tiene claras sus prioridades: mantener a su hermano lejos de los problemas, enorgullecer a su madre y,...
420) Shelter: refugio
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"La vida de Mickey Bolitar no puede empeorar. Tras ser testigo de la muerte de su padre y tener que ingresar a su madre en un centro de desintoxicación, se ve forzado a vivir con su tío lejano Myron y a cambiar de instituto. Por suerte, allí conoce a la genial Ashley, y parece que las cosas van a mejorar. Es entonces cuando Ashley desaparece. En su búsqueda tras su chica, Mickey descubre todo un mundo oscuro que revela que Ashley no es quien...