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"Coi is just eighteen years old but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother's house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they've created a peaceful life. That peace ends suddenly when her mother dies. Her mother's passing also reopens the door to her mother's side of the family, including her beloved younger half-sister, Kayla, her stepfather and her grandmother....
5) Nowhere girl
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"The story of a young Parisian girl lost in the gulf between childhood and adulthood, navigating depression...and discovering the Beatles"--
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When twelve-year-old Norwegian Tuva begins seventh grade, she notices shifts in her friendships, such as Linnea getting a boyfriend and Bao vowing to never have one. Caught in the middle of pressures from both of them, Tuva begins confiding in her diary about whether she needs to be more mature, her feelings for a cool girl named Miriam, and why everything has to change.
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A young girl's family and friends are obsessed with technology, and they are always on their devices. She feels like she's invisible to others, and she only gets along with older people, who are also invisible to everyone on their devices. Selfies are the only way the girl can spend any time with her sister, her friends only talk about how others are playing video games, and she had to change sports because her teammates wouldn't pay attention to...
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Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home).When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to send for her niece in one year's time. All Pumkin has to...
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"The switcheroo fun of The Parent Trap meets the showbiz spirit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this timeless coming-of-age story about family, friendship, and following your dreams. When Shira and Esther first meet, they can hardly believe their eyes. It's like looking in a mirror! But even though they may look identical, the two girls couldn't be more different. Shira dreams of singing and dancing onstage, but her father, a stern and pious rabbi,...