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Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...
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As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
4) Gut reaction
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Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
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"Eight years ago, Ethan and Rebecca met, two troublemaking kids sharing secrets and first kisses in a tree house, until Ethan's mom returned to take him away. Each and every visit, his only goodbye was a flower on Rebecca's windowsill. Four years ago, Ethan left for the last time to take care of his mother, who has struggled with addiction his whole life. Two years ago, Rebecca was in a car accident that killed her father. She's been learning to navigate...
8) Emmett
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Seventeen-year-old self-absorbed Emmett navigates love and relationships in this queer retelling of Emma.
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"Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry...
10) Boomi's boombox
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After her dad dies of COVID, twelve-year-old Boomi is given his old boombox and magically transported to Thumpton-on-Soar, England, 1986, where she meets her dad at age twelve and must figure out what she's supposed to do--save him or change her life.
11) The Gray
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Thirteen-year-old Sasha suffers from bullying and extreme anxiety, which he calls the Gray, and when things hit a breaking point, his parents send him to stay with his Aunt Ruthie in upstate New York, where Sasha's aunt and uncle used to run a Jewish summer camp. There, Sasha begins to explore and even make some new friends, and things start to look up when he meets a horse nicknamed the Gray at a local ranch. But when one of his new friends disappears,...
12) The dead below
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Treva Gallo beings seeing ghosts shortly after she moves to Philadelphia and as more ghosts begin to visit her, she must dig into the city's past to discover what they want.
13) Clementine
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Fourteen-year-old Clementine hasn't been the same since her younger sister's death. She and her mother try to continue on with their lives but the grief strangles both of them until Clementine snaps. Now she must find a way to move forward.
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Grieving over the sudden death of her best friend, eleven-year-old Daisy finds it hard to get excited about things like her new baby sister and her community service project for Hebrew school, but new middle school friends and supportive family members help Daisy discover a way to move forward.
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"A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. “On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden.” The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of...
17) Good things
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Malcolm lives with his dad and grandmother and soaks up everything his dad says and teaches him about the plants in their home. When his father dies, his plants, which now belong to Malcolm, also suffer, and Malcolm must find a way to remember one of his dad's favorite sayings, "Good things take time." Includes a glossary of plant terms.
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After her sister Lia dies in a tragic accident, Val, who is mostly bedridden due to a chronic illness, writes letters to her sister, exploring her experiences with grief, pain, relationships, feeling alone in her illness, and discovering a friend she can talk to who helps her learn to take back control of her life.