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TITLE: The Cousins
AUTHOR: Karen M. McManus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McM - MYSTERY SUMMARY: After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets. |
TITLE: Just Pretend
AUTHOR: Tori Sharp WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sha - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Shuffling between the homes of parents who still treat her like a kid, Tori turns to her writing to make sense of the complexities of her fractured family and its impact on her friendships. |
TITLE: Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
AUTHOR: Echo Brown CALL NUMBER: F Bro - NOVELS SUMMARY: From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more. |
TITLE: Clap When You Land
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo CALL NUMBER: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices. |
TITLE: How to Make Friends with the Dark
AUTHOR: Kathleen Glasgow WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gla - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness. |
TITLE: Eleanor & Park
AUTHOR: Rainbow Rowell CALL NUMBER: F Row - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. |
TITLE: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
AUTHOR: Rey Terciero WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ter - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel adaptation of "Little women" by Louisa May Alcott which chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England. |
TITLE: Bridge of Clay
AUTHOR: Markus Zusak WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Zus - NOVEL SUMMARY: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption. |
TITLE: Educated
AUTHOR: Tara Westover WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Wes SUMMARY: Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond. |
TITLE: The Great Alone
AUTHOR: Kristin Hannah WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Han - NOVEL SUMMARY: When her father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. |
TITLE: Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
AUTHOR: Jarrett J. Krosoczka WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Kro - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In graphic novel format author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka discusses growing up in a family grappling with addiction. |
TITLE: Losers Bracket
AUTHOR: Chris Crutcher WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cru - NOVEL SUMMARY: When a family argument breaks out at Annie's swim meet and her nephew goes missing, she seeks help from her friends, her foster brother, and her social worker to find him and get him into a safe home. |
TITLE: Starfish
AUTHOR: Akemi Dawn Bowman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bow - NOVEL SUMMARY: Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way. |
TITLE: This Is How It Always Is
AUTHOR: Laurie Frankel WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fra - NOVEL SUMMARY: When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. But Claude is not like his brothers. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn aren't panicked at first. Kids go through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. But soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes. . . |
TITLE: The Witch Elm
AUTHOR: Tana French WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fre - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Left for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history. |
TITLE: The Best We Could Do
AUTHOR: Thi Bui WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Bui - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: An intimate look at one family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. |
TITLE: Calling My Name
AUTHOR: Liana Tamani WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tam - NOVEL SUMMARY: Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose. |
TITLE: Far From the Tree
AUTHOR: Robin Benway WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ben - NOVEL SUMMARY: Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. |
TITLE: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
AUTHOR: Erika L. Sánchez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sán - NOVEL SUMMARY: When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed. |
TITLE: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
AUTHOR: Benjamin Alire Sáenz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sáe - NOVEL SUMMARY: Certain of his place in the loving Mexican American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal begins questioning everything when his senior year arrives and he realizes he wants to know more about his biological origins. |
TITLE: Little Fires Everywhere
AUTHOR: Celeste Ng WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ng - NOVEL SUMMARY: Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families. |
TITLE: Little and Lion
AUTHOR: Brandy Colbert WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bra - NOVEL SUMMARY: Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons. |
TITLE: Sing, Unburied, Sing
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F War - NOVEL SUMMARY: Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. |
TITLE: Solo
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVEL SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Blade, who endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past to navigate the challenges of his former rock star father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity. |
TITLE: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
AUTHOR: Deborah Heiligman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 920 Van SUMMARY: A meticulously researched account of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh draws on hundreds of letters written by the master artist that illuminate how Theo supported Vincent throughout the latter's creative and interpersonal struggles. |
TITLE: Everything I Never Told You
AUTHOR: Celeste Ng WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ng - NOVELS SUMMARY: The daughter of a Chinese American family is found dead, turning the family's lives upside down. |
TITLE: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
AUTHOR: Candace Fleming WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 947.08 Fle SUMMARY: Traces the story of the Russian Revolution, the lives of the Romanov family, and the story of their tragic deaths, in an account that draws on primary source materials and includes period photography. |
TITLE: The Impossible Knife of Memory
AUTHOR: Laurie Halse Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - NOVEL SUMMARY: Enduring a transient existence before starting school in her Iraq War veteran father's hometown, a troubled Hayley Kincaid longs for a normal life and pursues a relationship with a secretive boy before her father's PTSD leads to a disturbing drug problem. |