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While You Were Dreaming
By Alisha Rai. 2023
In this debut contemporary YA romance by bestselling author Alisha Rai, a girl with undocumented family members goes viral after…
saving her crush’s life in disguise. A must read for fans of Sandhya Menon and Nicola Yoon. A Phenomenal Book Club Pick!It’s a classic story: girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy finally notices girl when he sees her in a homemade costume. At least, that’s what Sonia Patil is hoping for when she plans to meet her crush at the local comic-con in cosplay.But instead of winning her crush over, Sonia rescues him after he faints into a canal and, suddenly, everything changes. Since she was in disguise, no one knows who the masked do-gooder was . . .but everyone is trying to find out. Sonia can’t let that happen—her sister is undocumented, and the girls have been flying under the radar since their mother was deported back to Mumbai.Sonia finds herself hiding from social media detectives and trying to connect with her crush and his family. But juggling crushes and a secret identity might just take superpowers. Can Sonia hide in plain sight forever?
I Can, Too!
By Karen Autio. 2022
A wonderful story of new friendship between two children with diverse abilities.Piper and Kayla love to move. They ride bikes,…
glide on ice, swoosh down mountains and much more — each in her own way. While Piper pedals her tricycle with her feet, Kayla uses her hands to move her trike forward. While Kayla coasts across the ice on a sled, Piper sails along on skates. Join Kayla and Piper as they play together, explore their world and make new friends.The inspiration for I Can, Too! comes from the author’s daughter, who was born with spina bifida. On a visit to the mall after her child received her first wheelchair, a young boy pointed, asking his mother, “Why is that girl in a wheelbarrow?” Karen welcomed questions so the unknown could be named and understood and children could get to know her daughter.Shining a much-needed spotlight on kids who use special gear to navigate the world, I Can, Too! will delight readers of all abilities with its affirming story of inclusion, while also inviting readers to learn more about adaptive devices in the back matter.
Twelve-year-old Gabe has ambitions to be the next Jacques Cousteau...or Bill Gates...or who? Gabe's anxiety about growing up is matched…
by his fear that he'll be crazy (like his brother). But he finds some relief in his underwater computer game, setting up his own aquarium, and swimming on the local team. Could it be that some things will just take care of themselves?
Funeral Girl
By Emma K. Ohland. 2022
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run—especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts.…
With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes the spirit disappear, to a fate that remains mysterious to Georgia. To cope with her deep anxiety about death, she does her best to fulfill the final wishes of the deceased whose ghosts she briefly revives. Then her classmate Milo's body arrives at Richter—and his spirit wants help with unfinished business, forcing Georgia to reckon with her relationship to grief and mortality.
The Freak Observer
By Blythe Woolston. 2010
The Freak Observer is rich in family drama, theoretical physics, and an unusual, tough young woman—Loa Lindgren. For eight years,…
Loa Sollilja's world ran like one of those mechanical models of the solar system, with her baby sister, Asta, as the sun. Asta suffered from a genetic disorder that left her a permanent infant, and caring for her was Loa's life. Everything spun neatly and regularly as the whole family orbited around Asta. But now Asta's dead, and 16-year-old Loa's clockwork galaxy has collapsed. As Loa spins off on her own, her mind ambushes her with vivid nightmares and sadistic flashbacks―a textbook case of PTSD. But there are no textbook fixes for Loa's short-circuiting brain. She must find her own way to pry her world from the clutches of death. The Freak Observer is a startling debut about death, life, astrophysics, and finding beauty in chaos.
The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
By NoNieqa Ramos. 2018
A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's…
school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms—complete with gritty characters and outrageous endeavors. With an honesty that's both hilarious and fearsome, slowly Macy reveals why she acts out, why she can't tell her incarcerated father that her mom's cheating on him, and why her best friend needs protection . . . the kind of protection that involves Macy's machete.
Chaos Theory
By Nic Stone. 2023
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens: a certified genius…
living with a diagnosed mental disorder and a politician's son who is running from his own addiction and grief. Don't miss this gut punch of a novel about mental health, loss, and discovering you are worthy of love.Scars exist to remind us of what we&’ve survived. DETACHEDSince Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won&’t be there very long, she hasn&’t bothered making friends. What her classmates don&’t know about her can&’t be used to hurt her—you know, like it did at her last school. WASTEDAndy Criddle is not okay. At all.He&’s had far too much to drink.Again. Which is bad.And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn&’t resist reaching out. And there&’s no doubt their connection has them both seeing stars . . . but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull their universes apart. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone delivers a tour de force about living with grief, prioritizing mental health, and finding love amid the chaos.
Perilous voyage
By Lael Tucker Wertenbaker. 1975
Novel of identity about August Turnley who at 84 is left completely paralyzed by an accident. The question of whether…
her life has been superfluous causes her to search her past. Strong language
Screwball
By Alberta Armer. 1963
Crippled by polio, Mike doubts he will ever measure up to his twin brother until a soap box derby gives…
him the chance to use his own special talents. For grades 5-7
Going blind
By Jonathan Penner. 1977
Novel about a young professor who loses an eye in a car accident and soon suffers sympathetic failure of vision…
in the other. He decides to conceal his ailment in order to keep his position at the university and the woman he loves. Some strong language
Howie helps himself
By Joan Fassler. 1975
Though he enjoys life with his family and his classmates, Howie--a boy with cerebral palsy--wants more than anything else to…
be able to move his wheelchair by himself. For grades K-3 and older readers
Tender mercies
By Rosellen Brown. 1978
Sensitive, riveting novel relates how Dan Courser, a New Hampshire woodshop teacher, while on vacation, accidentally drives a motor boat…
over his swimming wife, Laura, rendering her a quadraplegic. Brown spares little in telling what it is like to cope with this situation physically, sexually, and emotionally. Some strong language and some explicit description of sex
Blindness
By Henry Green. 1978
Novel first published in 1926 by a wealthy young Oxford student. Portrays a clever and artistic sixteen-year-old boy who is…
blinded by a rock thrown at the window of the train. Traces the inner growth of the youth as he hesitantly comes to grips with his personal tragedy
P.S. write soon: a novel
By Colby Rodowsky, Colby F Rodowsky. 1978
Tanner is an unhappy girl who dislikes wearing a leg brace and being the youngest and, she thinks, least interesting…
child of an accomplished family. Since Tanner has written dozens of letters full of wonderful lies to a pen pal, she panics when the pen pal proposes a visit. A vivid story for grades 5-8
Whipple's castle
By Thomas Williams. 1968
Follows the family of an athletic Dartmouth man crippled in a car accident. The chronicle of their touching and tragic…
life in a small New England town spans the end of the Depression, World War II, and the post-war years. Strong language
Hunter in the dark
By Estelle Thompson. 1979
In Queensland, Philip Blair who has been totally blind for two years, is at a bus stop when a girl…
accepts a ride from a man she obviously knows. When she is found strangled, Philip rages at the crime and his inability to identify the monstrous killer. With the help of his estranged girlfriend and policeman buddy, he sets out on his own investigation
A certain small shepherd
By Rebecca Caudill. 1965
A little mute boy is given the part of one of the shepherds in a Christmas play. The pageant is…
cancelled because of a blizzard, but a reenactment of the Nativity occurs in his family's barn, with an attendant miracle. For grades 3-6
Six Goodbyes We Never Said
By Candace Ganger. 2019
Two teens meet after tragedy and learn about love, loss, and letting goNaima Rodriguez doesn’t want your patronizing sympathy as…
she grieves her father, her hero—a fallen Marine. She’ll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him “as he was,” though that’s all her loving family wants her to do in order to manage her complex OCD and GAD. She’d rather everyone back the-eff off while she separates her Lucky Charms marshmallows into six, always six, Ziploc bags, while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her. Dew respectfully requests a little more time to process the sudden loss of his parents. It's causing an avalanche of secret anxieties, so he counts on his trusty voice recorder to convey the things he can’t otherwise say aloud. He could really use a friend to navigate a life swimming with pain and loss and all the lovely moments in between. And then he meets Naima and everything’s changed—just not in the way he, or she, expects. Candace Ganger's Six Goodbyes We Never Said is no love story. If you ask Naima, it’s not even a like story. But it is a story about love and fear and how sometimes you need a little help to be brave enough to say goodbye.
We are all so good at smiling
By Amber McBride. 2023
This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is We Are All So Good…
at Smiling. This program is read by the author. They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before. They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane. The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years. A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.
The Night Animals
By Sarah Ann Juckes. 2023
Uncover the ghost animals within in this moving and uplifting story about finding help where you need it, from the…
highly acclaimed author and illustrator of The Hunt for the Nightingale. Nora's mum has good days and bad days, but the bad days are getting worse. It's been just the two of them for always, and they don't need anyone else. When the rainbow-shimmering ghost animals Nora used to see when she was small start to reappear, she's convinced that they hold all the answers. Along with new friend Kwame, Nora follows a glittering ghostly fox, hare, raven and otter on the adventure of a lifetime, helping her to find the strength she needs to help her family. In a heartbreaking and hopeful narrative, Sarah Ann Juckes' stunning novel, illustrated by the award-winning Sharon King-Chai sees a brave young girl face down her ghosts. For fans of The Last Bear and Julia and the Shark. Praise for Hunt for the Nightingale ‘Full of hope, beauty & ultimately a healing song to nature' Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear 'An incredibly moving story of feeling lost and finding your way again' Lisa Thompson, author of Rollercoaster Boy 'Will break your heart and mend it back together again' Piers Torday, author of The Last Wild 'This poignant exploration of grief and denial seen through the eyes of a child is underpinned by lessons about kindness, acceptance and nature’ Daily Mail.