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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Told in verse in two voices, with a chorus of fellow students, this is a story of two girls, opposites in many ways, who are drawn to each other; Kate appears to be a stereotypical cheerleader with a sleek ponytail and a perfectly polished persona, Tam is tall, athletic and frequently mistaken for a boy, but their deepening friendship inevitably changes and reveals them in ways they did not anticipate.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when a rash decision throws Ellis's life-and her relationship with Easton-into chaos, she's forced to move halfway across the country, far from everything she's ever known. Now Ellis hasn't spoken to Easton in a year, and maybe it's better that way; maybe eventually the Easton-shaped hole in her heart will heal. But when Easton's mom invites her home for a visit, Ellis...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer! Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods, and Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold...
Author
Series
DC icons volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
When teenage Diana witnesses a shipwreck, she decides she cannot let Alia, the sole survivor, drown. However, as disease begins to afflict Diana's Amazon sisters, and earthquakes shake the island of Themyscira, it becomes clear that Diana's choice to rescue Alia may have consequences she never could have imagined.
Author
Series
Girls who code volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Loops, variables, input/output - Lucy can't wait to get started with the new coding club at school. Finally, an after school activity that she's really interested in. But Lucy's excitement turns to disappointment when she's put into a work group with girls she barely knows. All she wanted to do was make an app that she believes will help someone very special to her. Suddenly, Lucy begins to get cryptic coding messages and needs some help translating...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counselor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship....
Author
Series
Girls who code volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Sophia and her coding club BFFs have the best time together. Sure, they work on coding projects, but mostly they gossip about crushes, eat cookies, and do totally silly impersonations. Now they're about to participate in their first hackathon--a full day of coding and meeting other coders-so it's time to step up their game! Just when Sophia and her friends think their hackathon project is ready for the big time, a change of plans...
Author
Series
Mango Delight volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Mango Delight Fuller is ready for her next big break, which just might be in Hollywood! So she heads to California and auditions for a new television series. As she and her family settle in, she meets new friends who also end up competing with Mango for roles. Unfortunately, Mango's big screen test does not go well. But when the star drops out of the show, Mango's new manager convinces the producers to rework the show with Mango...
15) Sawkill girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she's sure she'll never find. Zoey: The pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she's broken-or maybe everyone else is. Val: The queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: No matter how different best friends Adelle and Connie are, one thing they've always had in common is their love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. So when the girls are tempted by a mysterious man to enter the world of the book, they hardly suspect it will work. But suddenly they are in the world of Moira, living among characters they've obsessed about for years. Except...all is not how they remembered it....
17) The lying game
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister...
The next morning, three women in and around London-Fatima, Thea, and Isabel-receive the text they had always hoped would NEVER come, from the...
18) Loveless
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture...
19) Drifters
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: From the acclaimed author of the Chronicle of the Dark Star comes a riveting mystery, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, about a girl who sets out to find her missing best friend-and discovers her small town is hiding a dark, centuries-old secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of Disney's Villains series comes a ghostly stand-alone novel that reimagines The Legend of Sleepy Hollow through the eyes of a modern teen. Kat Van Tassel wants nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's ghostly history. But when her mother gives her the original Katrina van Tassel's diary on the two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's haunting, a new legend begins to take shape, weaving together the...
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