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The beautiful game by Yamile Saied MâendezWhen she gets her first period while wearing white shorts during the State Cup semifinal, which unexpectedly eliminates her team, 13-year-old Valeria is relegated to a girls' team for the first time, and with the next tournament fast approaching, she must learn to play like a girl. Simultaneous eBook.
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Danilo was here by Tamika BurgessDanilo's baseball talent lands him the opportunity to train in the States and find his absentee father, who may be the key to saving the family he abandoned as they deal with the devastating effects of the US's military invasion of Panamâa.
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Glitch girl! by Rainie OetJ– is navigating ADHD, the loneliness of middle school and a crush on a girl when she meets Sam, a nonbinary classmate, and realizes it's okay not to fit into neat, pixelated boxes, in a novel in verse.
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It's watching by Lindsay CurrieJosie and her best friends, Jackson and Alison, sneak into a haunted cemetery on Halloween night hoping to prove the existence of a famous ghost and instead get sinister memes on their phones and must discover who is terrorizing them.
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No purchase necessary by Maria MarianayagamAjay Anthonipillai wins a million-dollar prize in a candy bar he stole trying to impress a popular kid, pushing Ajay to navigate his identity and morality in deciding whether to claim something that could change his family's life forever.
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Old school by Gordon KormanTwelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Right back at you by Carolyn MacklerMason lives in 2023. His parents have just split up, and there's a guy at school who won't get off his case. As part of an assignment, he writes a letter to Albert Einstein and it ends up getting a little too personal. He throws the letter into his closet . . . and the next day he gets a letter back from a girl named Talia, who lives in 1987. She has problems of her own, including classmates who make jokes because she's Jewish. She thought her friends would have her back. But it ends up the only person she really has to talk to is . . . a random boy from the future?
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Scattergood by H. M. BouwmanA lot changes for 12-year-old farm girl Peggy in 1941, when her friend Joe starts acting strange around her, the Quaker hostel starts housing Jewish refugees, and her cousin is diagnosed with leukemia, in a historical coming-of-age novel.
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A study in secrets by Debbi Michiko Florence12-year-old Meg is pulled into a mysterious treasure hunt at her new boarding school and must learn to work with her new classmates, who all have secrets of their own.
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