Woman in the woods and other North American stories [Cautionary Fables And Fairytales]

Paperback(Iron Circus Comics, 2022)

BTSB #: 131132 Available

Dewey: 398.2/SAges: 10-12   


Genres:

Subjects: Native Americans - North America - Folklore Fairy tales Fables Gender identity - Fiction Graphic novels

Summary: In this exciting and historical comics collection, some of storytelling's finest talents reimagine folklore from North American tribes with a modern twist. In graphic novel format.

Words we keep by Stewart, Erin 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 854262 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 680 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mental illness - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Anxiety - Fiction

Summary: When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.

Words we keep by Stewart, Erin 

Paperback(Ember, 2023)

BTSB #: 854263 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 680 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mental illness - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Anxiety - Fiction

Summary: When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.

Year I flew away by Arnold, Marie 

Paperback(Versify, 2022)

BTSB #: 070743 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   


Genres: Supernatural Family Life

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Witchcraft - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Haitian Americans - Fiction

Summary: After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.

Year my life went down the toilet by Arlow, Jake Maia 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2023)

BTSB #: 068318 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 770 F&P: Z+

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Crohn's disease - Fiction Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: Twelve-year-old Al, short for Alison, navigates an overprotective mother, growing apart from her best friend, and her first girl crush, all while her recent Crohn's diagnosis puts a knot in her stomach.

Yesterday is history by Jackson, Kosoko 

Paperback(Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)

BTSB #: 485107 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Time travel - Fiction Gays - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Boston (Mass.) - Fiction

Summary: After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?

You owe me one, universe [Thanks A Lot, Universe Volume: 2]by Lucas, Chad 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2023)

BTSB #: 589820 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.1 MG F&P: Z

Genres: Sports Family Life

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction Basketball - Fiction Gay teenagers - Fiction Family problems - Fiction

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Brian and his best friend Ezra navigate the challenges and complexities of middle school, as Brian struggles to cope with his emotions and Ezra attempts to balance his loyalty to his best friend with a newfound friendship.

Youngbloods [Impostors Volume: Book 4]by Westerfeld, Scott 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 688937 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 5.1 UG

Genres: Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Science fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Revolutions - Fiction

Summary: Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Frey and Tally join forces to put a check on the people in power, while still trying to understand their own power and where it belongs.

Zara Hossain is here by Khan, Sabina 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2022)

BTSB #: 516484 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Pakistanis - Fiction Muslims - Fiction Racism - Fiction Corpus Christi (Tex.) - Fiction

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. She tries to avoid conflicts so her family can get their green cards, but when a bully takes things too far, she has to weigh the consequences of fighting back.