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Language
English
Description
"Negative Space follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New York private school. At home, her two children, increasingly restless, ask constant questions about mortality and find hidden wisdom in the cartoons they watch on television. Her husband tends to his plants and offers occasional counsel between Zoom calls to Hong Kong and Australia. And at school, as she navigates the currents between wealthy, increasingly disconnected students...
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to break free from Al Haque Islamic Academy, four classmates stumble upon the diary of a student who lived on the grounds when it was an all-girls Catholic school, which inspires them to hatch a plot to escape, hurtling them down a path that changes their lives forever.
4) The gulf
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Oli found a pamphlet for a remote island commune as a kid, it's all she can think about. Now that she's nearing the end of high school, feeling frustrated with the mounting pressure to choose a career and follow a path she has no interest in, the desire to escape it all has been steadily increasing. Everything comes to a head when Oli's relationship with her best friend goes south and she claps back at a school bully with more than just...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is this what middle school is all about? Being stuck in the middle? Twelve-year-old Mia feels like everything and everyone is changing--and she is caught in the middle. Stuck between old friends and new friends...between feeling like a kid and growing up...
6) Grey dog
Author
Language
English
Description
"A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students,...
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bernie is a talented young photographer who has quit taking photographs in favor of drinking and drifting around Philadelphia. Leah is ambitious yet flailing grad student and journalist who must know the answer to every question. When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate, they tentatively begin the kind of uncategorizable, queer relationship that can only flourish between two people who deeply understand each others' dreams and dissatisfactions....
Author
Series
Witches of Silverlake volume 1
Publisher
Legendary Comics YA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It's always tough being the new kid in the coven. Elliot has had a rough year. His dad died, he had to move across the country, and now he's about to start high school at LA's prestigious Saint John the Baptist Academy, where his mom has accepted the position of Vice Principal. He's quickly taken in by the school's outcasts: the scholarship kids; the queer kids; and the ones who just don't really fit in with the glossy trust fund babies of SJTBA....
Author
Series
Cupcake Diaries volume 5
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Katie’s Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes. So Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche. When Katie makes the softball team, it’s batter up…but is this the kind of batter Katie really wants to be dealing with? What if she makes a mistake and her team loses? By stepping up to the plate, Katie realizes that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter"--
Author
Series
Elle(s) volume 3
Publisher
Ablaze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The revelation of the mystery of her origins has allowed Elle to regain control of her life. But all is not well... On the surface, the high school student tries to resolve her contradictions. Inside, her multiple personalities attempt to unravel the mystery of the voice that speaks to them all. And in both cases, it would seem that Blue Elle has the answers, or at least the leads. Is it therefore time for reconciliation? Finally...it's "All for...
11) Freshman year
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist"--
Author
Series
My new life as a cat volume 4
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023-]
Language
English
Description
"Nao Kazushiro is a normal high school student--until he gets in a traffic accident and winds up in the body of a cat! At first, it's all fun and games as he gets used to his new feline form, but then the novelty wears off and hunger sets in. Luckily, he's picked up by Chika, a cute girl his age who gives him food and a home off the streets. Will Nao (now Nyao) develop feelings for her? Or will he wake up in his human body once and for all?"--
Author
Series
Click volume 1
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Olivia está emocionada con empezar el nuevo curso: nuevos profesores, nuevas experiencias y una excursión a la gran ciudad con sus mejores amigos. Pero cuando se entera de que algunos niños no pueden permitírselo, decide actuar. Está dispuesta a hacer lo que sea necesario para que la escuchen, aunque eso signifique enfrentarse a dos de sus mejores amigos, ¿podrá Olivia cambiar las cosas y al mismo tiempo conservar su amistad?"--
14) Sakura, Saku
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
The bud of bittersweet first love takes bloom! A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya's rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her. Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she has is a note signed "Ryosuke Sakura." She discovers that a boy at her high school, Haruki Sakura, has an older...
15) Tryouts
Author
Series
Brinkley yearbooks volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's warm up time in this newest installment in the Brinkley Yearbook series. Will Alexandra make the cut and help the historically boys baseball team defend their 9-year championship title? Alexandra, also known as Al, has been playing baseball with her older brothers for as long as she can remember. But when she ages out of Little League, it seems like it's the end of the road for Al and the sport she loves. Until, that is, her friend Sammy suggests...
16) Skip and loafer
Author
Series
Skip and loafer volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
Country girl Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
"One morning, fifteen-year-old Yoshida Yuko wakes up to discover she has sprouted demon horns and a tail! Not only that, she learns from her mother that she has supernatural powers and an important mission, to restore her family's glory by defeating local magical girl Chiyoda Momo, another student at Yuko's school"--
Author
Series
Rainbow! (Sunny) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Teenager Boo has pink hair and a very vivid imagination that she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an alternate version of the events told in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. That series told the story through the eyes of Ultimate Lucky Student Nagito Komaeda; now Goodbye Despair gives you the perspective of his arch-rival in the desperate classroom murder game, Hajime Hinata!... Beautiful white sand? Check! Refreshing ocean waves? Check! Bloody body in the beach house? Check...?!...
20) A for effort
Author
Series
A-okay volume 2
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The start of Jay's freshman year is full of new things . . . New friends. New classes. New challenges. All of which are expected, until his new friend group's obsession with perfect grades puts the pressure on--especially when his best subject, art, is full. Without it to anchor him, Jay hopes theater class will be the easy A he's looking for. But when the class begins, Jay finds himself struggling like never before. Turns out balancing Shakespeare...