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"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins...
3) The name jar
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Big Feelings about Back to School
Celebrating Myself!: Books for Kids
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
Celebrating Myself!: Books for Kids
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
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After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
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Min Jin Lee introduces the indelible Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants, who is addicted to a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a popular white boyfriend, Casey is determined to carve a space for herself in the glittering world she craves--but at what cost? Lee's bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of love, greed, and hunger--set in a...
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At sixteen, Bethany Greene has never had a boyfriend, date, or first kiss. She's determined to change, and agrees to Homecoming to go with her best friend's boyfriend Jacob Yeun: a platonic date is better than no date, right? The Jacob's girlfriend breaks up with him. Dumped twice in two months, Jacob decides to make the best of an awkward situation. They decide to fake date for practice, building their confidence in matters of the heart. Guys start...
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With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation and murder as victims accumulate around her college campus.
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"A social media influencer is shipped off to a digital detox summer camp in this funny coming-of-age story"-- Provided by publisher.
When Sunny Song accidentally films a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate), she is shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants any shot at growing her social media platform this summer, she'll need to find a...
12) The name drop
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When Elijah Ri arrives in New York City for an internship at his father's massive tech company, Haneul Corporation, it is the last thing he wants. He finds himself shuffled into a group of overworked, unpaid interns, all sharing a shoebox apartment for the summer. Jessica Lee arrived in New York City eager to make the most of her internship at Haneul Corporation, even if she is at the bottom of the corporate ladder-- and is shocked to be introduced...
15) Shelter: a novel
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"Kyung Cho's home is worth less money than he owes. A tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their decisions have caught up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's future: all he wants is to provide the home that was denied him to their son. Not that he ever wanted for pleasing things -- his father moved the family from Korea, and made good money engineering patents for the university that...
16) Y/N: a novel
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"Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant--a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction."-- Dust jacket.
17) I'm new here
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Diverse Books - Refugee Experience - Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families in Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families in Picture Books
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Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.