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If you like Animal Crossing... Animal Crossing is sweet, creative, and a little adventurous. So are these teen stories! ALL of these titles are available through hoopla.
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Come Next Spring
by Alana White
It's 1949 in Tennessee Smoky Mountain-country, and everything in twelve-year-old Salina's life seems suddenly different. Her sister is engaged, her brother Paul is absorbed in caring for his foal, Sugar-Boy, and Salina feels she has nothing in common anymore with her best friend. This novel for young people captures the insular spirit of the mountain people, the breathtaking country itself, and a girl's struggle to accept the inevitability of change.
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Coral
by Sara Ella
The worlds of Coral, Brooke, and Merrick, teens wounded by mental illness and family problems, collide and they must choose what to leave behind in order to survive and start fresh
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Dairy queen
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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Doggirl
by Robin Brande
I BELIEVE IN SIGNS. And this one said: "Dog trainer needed immediately. Must provide own dog." I snatched the paper off the announcement board before anyone else could see it. BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT TIME. Meet Riley Case: An expert with dogs, lousy with people. She's been keeping a low profile at her high school-well, except for that incident with the birds-but when the chance comes to use her talents as a dog trainer to help the drama department win a national competition, she knows she can't stay in the shadows any longer. Funny and tender, with plenty for any animal-lover to love, DOGGIRL and her dogs will steal your heart.
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Everywhere you want to be
by Christina June
Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to spend the summer with a New York City dance troupe, Tilly is determined to turn it into a career despite her family's wishes, fears about the city, and the cutthroat dancers
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The lost & found
by Katrina Leno
Forging a friendship through an online support group, Frannie and Louis, teens whose losses are tied to mysterious disappearances, search for answers during a road trip to Austin, where they find magical things that the other has lost.
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Lost in a book
by Jennifer Donnelly
Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue.
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Newt's emerald
by Garth Nix
Inspired by the works of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, a Regency romance with a fantasy twist finds Lady Truthful disguising herself as a man in order to search through London to recover her stolen magical emerald.
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Olivia Twist
by Lorie Langdon
Olivia Brownlow, born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, is as tough and cunning as they come. Taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, she's now a debutante in high society. But she can't forget the teeming slums where children still scrabble to survive. Jack MacCarron, once known as the Artful Dodger, became the adopted "nephew" of a society matron. He and his "aunt" are robbing society blind every chance they get. When Jack encounters Olivia, he wonders why asociety girl is helping a bunch of homeless orphan thieves--and why does she remind him so much of someone he once knew?
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Ronit & Jamil
by Pamela L Laskin
A lyrical novel in verse retells the story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, where an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy are brought together by their distrustful fathers' business arrangements and fall into a forbidden love.
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Those who run in the sky
by Aviaq Johnston
This teen novel, written by Iqaluit-based Inuit author Aviaq Johnston, is a coming-of-age story that follows a young shaman named Pitu as he learns to use his powers and ultimately finds himself lost in the world of the spirits. When a strange storm carries shaman-in-training Pitu to the world of the spirits, he must find his way home with the help of a fellow stranded shaman while facing strange and terrifying creatures
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Walk on Earth a stranger
by Rae Carson
A young woman who possesses a supernatural ability to sense the presence of gold disguises herself as a boy and seeks safety and romance in California
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Wanderlost
by Jen Malone
"A teen girl goes out of her comfort zone to help her sister by taking her summer job--leading a tour group of seniors (and the tour company owner's handsome son) through Europe"
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The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland
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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X.
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How to Feel Awesome Every Day
by Elly Awesome
Turn daily challenges into awesome experiences that will cure your boredom and brighten your day. Jam-packed with journal pages, advice, DIYs, recipes, and all sorts of rad activities - How To Feel Awesome Every Day is your one-stop guide to good times.
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Whale quest : working together to save endangered species
by Karen Romano Young
Introduces whales, discussing their physical features, behavior, and complex communication abilities, along with a history of whaling and a description of the efforts being made by scientists around the world to save them from extinction
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Where Have All the Bees Gone? : Pollinators in Crisis
by Rebecca E. Hirsch
Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the United States. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy.
But numbers of bees are falling, and that has scientists alarmed. What's causing the decline? Learn about the many bee species on Earth - their nests, their colonies, their life cycles, and their vital connection to flowering plants. Most importantly, find out how you can help these important pollinators.
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