Topical/Coming of Age

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

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    A New York Times bestseller–over one million copies sold!
    A National Book Award winner
    A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner

    Bestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaki

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    • Author: Alexie, Sherman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0316013692
    • Language: English
  • Water for Elephants

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    Over 10 million copies sold worldwide * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla
    #1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestsell

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    • Author: Gruen, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 1565125606
    • Language: English
  • Early to Death, Early to Rise

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    Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven’s dark angels–all itching to kill someone.

    Madison Avery’s dreams of fitting in at school died when she did. Especially since she’d maintained the illusion of

    • Series: Madison Avery #2
    • Author: Harrison, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 26, 2011
    • ISBN10: 0061441694
    • Language: English
  • Once Dead, Twice Shy

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    My name is Madison Avery, and I’m here to tell you that there’s more out there than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I’m there. Seeing it. Touching it. Living it.

    Madison’s prom was killer–litera

    • Series: Madison Avery #1
    • Author: Harrison, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 27, 2010
    • ISBN10: 0061441686
    • Language: English
  • Eleven Minutes Once Minutos (Spanish Edition): Una Novela

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    “El libro lanza un curioso y dulce hechizo”. –Entertainment Weekly

    Once minutos cuenta la historia de María, una chica joven de un pueblo de Brazil, cuyo primer inocente encuentro con el amor la deja c

    • Author: Coelho, Paulo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: November 22, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0060591838
    • Language: Spanish
  • Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy

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    Life as a ship’s boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, J… [more below]

    • Series: Bloody Jack Adventures #1
    • Author: Meyer, L. A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 301
    • Publish Date: June 10 2010
    • ISBN10: 015205085X
    • Language: English
  • The Two-Tailed Snake

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    North-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn’t pay much attention to ‘political business’ – she is more concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her bes

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    • Series: Fairlight Moderns
    • Author: Ghosh, Nod
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1914148428
    • Language: English
  • The Brutal Language of Love: Stories

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    Alicia Erian’s characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In “Alcatraz,” we meet a middle-sch… [more below]

    • Author: Erian, Alicia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: July 15 2008
    • ISBN10: 1416592717
    • Language: English
  • Not Without Laughter

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    A collectible hardcover edition of our greatest African American poet’s award-winning first novel about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town, featuring an introduction by Nationa[more below]

    • Series: Penguin Vitae
    • Author: Hughes, Langston
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 0143134426
    • Language: English
  • Sex Has a Price Tag: Discussions about Sexuality, Spirituality, and Self-Respect

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    “If I only had known what could happen, I would have made a different choice!”

    After a decade in a crisis pregnancy center, as well as counseling both Christian and non-Christian teens and speaking to

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    • Author: Stenzel, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 0310748852
    • Language: English
  • Summer Camp Adventure: 4

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    In the fourth book of the Keystone Stables series, perfect for girls who love horses and horse fiction, foster child Skye heads into a new adventure where her skills with horses and new riders is put

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    • Series: Keystone Stables
    • Author: Hubler, Marsha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 130
    • Publish Date: September 29 2009
    • ISBN10: 0310717957
    • Language: English
  • I Love My Teacher!

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    Perfect for Teacher Appreciation Week! This Step 1 reader is all about how wonderful school is when you have a great teacher.

    Teachers are simply the best! The star of I Love Pink! and I Love My Tutu!

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    • Series: Step Into Reading
    • Author: Gilbert, Frances
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593430522
    • Language: English
  • Natalie and the Downside-Up Birthday

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    What Really Makes a Birthday Extra Special? Natalie’s birthday party is on Saturday, and she invites all her friends. But Not-So-Nice Sasha’s birthday party is on the same day. Sasha’s party has horse

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    • Series: That’s Nat! #4
    • Author: Mackall, Dandi Daley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 10 2009
    • ISBN10: 0310715695
    • Language: English
  • Sunrise and the Real World

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    When Lorraine, a recent college graduate, starts work at a residential treatment center for troubled teens, she quickly finds herself absorbed into a world very distant from the idyllic lobsters-and-l… [more below]

    • Author: Dudman, Martha Tod
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1952143683
    • Language: English
  • Whispering Hope: 7

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    In the seventh book of the Keystone Stables series, perfect for girls who love horses and horse fiction, foster child Skye gets more than she bargained for when the two newest arrivals to the ranch ar

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    • Series: Keystone Stables
    • Author: Hubler, Marsha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 146
    • Publish Date: May 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 0310716918
    • Language: English
  • Code of Silence: Living a Lie Comes with a Price

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    “Like many a crackerjack thriller, this one boasts a breakneck beginning…Rarely are kids in thrillers portrayed this realistically…Deliberate, plausible, and gritty whodunit.”

    Booklist Starred Re

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    • Series: Code of Silence Novel #1
    • Author: Shoemaker, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 348
    • Publish Date: March 30 2013
    • ISBN10: 031072693X
    • Language: English
  • Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

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    In Boys Should Be Boys, critically acclaimed author Dr. Meg Meeker helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enables today’s boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorro… [more below]

    • Author: Meeker, Meg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 287
    • Publish Date: January 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1684511968
    • Language: English
  • I, Amber Brown

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    Amber Brown loves the holidays. But this year, the season is bringing big changes. Amber’s dad has moved back to New Jersey, which means shared custody. Soon Amber feels as if half of her belongs to h… [more below]

    • Series: Amber Brown #8
    • Author: Danziger, Paula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 15 2011
    • ISBN10: 0142419656
    • Language: English
  • The Curtain Lady

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    As if it weren’t enough that Poppy has to deal with teenage problems like shyness, keeping up with her studies, and the temptations of boys and illicit substances, she also can’t seem to shake the cru

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    • Author: Shepherd, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: August 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1990496113
    • Language: English
  • Under the Lights

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    In the follow-up to Abbi Glines’s #1 New York Times bestseller Until Friday Night–which bestselling author Kami Garcia called “tender, honest, and achingly real”–three teens from a small southern to[more below]

    • Series: Field Party
    • Author: Glines, Abbi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: July 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1481438883
    • Language: English
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