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Seraphina

author: Hartman, Rachel
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: identity (philosophical concept) [X], self-actualization (psychology), dragons, secrecy, music, identity (psychology) [X], self-realization, secrets, courts and courtiers, identity, fantasy, individuality [X], fantasy fiction, fantasy fiction

The Dark Side Of Nowhere

author: Shusterman, Neal
Las Vegas...it's not. For Jason Miller, Billington is the definition of dull.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850

Strange Angels

author: St. Crow, Lili
Sixteen-year-old Dru Anderson travels from town to town with her father, who hunts "strange" creatures, but when he is turned into a zombie, Dru goes on the run with her friends Grave--freshly bitten by a werewolf--and Christophe--a half-human vampire hunter--to save herself.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: supernatural, psychic ability, werewolves, vampires, orphans, identity (psychology) [X], identity, identity (philosophical concept) [X], individuality [X], paranormal fiction, parapsychology

Dash & Lily's Book Of Dares

author: Cohn, Rachel
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what -- or who -- they will find.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: treasure hunt (game), identity (psychology) [X], identity, new york (n.y.), individuality [X], identity (philosophical concept) [X], romance, treasure hunts

Paper Daughter

author: Ingold, Jeanette
When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, an investigation that forces her to confront her ethnicity and a family she never knew.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: chinese americans, identity (philosophical concept) [X], journalism, identity, seattle (wash.), identity (psychology) [X], individuality [X]

I Like Myself!

author: Beaumont, Karen
In rhyming text, a little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 96
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: stories in rhyme, identity, self-esteem, identity (philosophical concept) [X], individuality [X], identity (psychology) [X], picture books for children

The Dark Flight Down

author: Sedgwick, Marcus
On an errand for Kepler, his new master, Boy is captured and imprisoned in the palace dungeon, where he plots his escape from the evil Maxim and the lunatic King Frederick but also learns a disturbing secret about his father.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: magic, magicians, identity, kings, queens, rulers, etc, fathers, individuality [X], kings and rulers, identity (psychology) [X], horror fiction, horror tales, audiobooks, compact discs, identity (philosophical concept) [X], horror stories

Kiki Strike

author: Miller, Kirsten
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: underground areas, crime, identity, individuality [X], new york (n.y.), identity (psychology) [X], identity (philosophical concept) [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories

Montmorency's Revenge

author: Updale, Eleanor
As Queen Victoria lies dying and with her family in danger, a group of friends races to track down the anarchists responsible for George's death, even as Montmorency seeks to teach a new generation to forgive.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: revolutionaries, criminals, identity (psychology) [X], robbers and outlaws, london (england), identity, historical fiction, individuality [X], identity (philosophical concept) [X]

I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

author: Garc?a, Cristina
Thirteen-year-old, Southern California surfer Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch is a unique mix of Jewish, Japanese, and Cuban heritage; and when her grandfather, Saul, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she asks him to tell her his life story in order to better understand her own history.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: individuality [X], racially mixed people, grandfathers, family life, southern california, identity (psychology) [X], families, identity, identity (philosophical concept) [X], california, southern

Freak

author: Pixley, Marcella Fleischman
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: identity (philosophical concept) [X], bullying, middle schools, sisters, identity, identity (psychology) [X], bullies, schools, individuality [X], school stories

Banished

author: Littlefield, Sophie
Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell, raised by a mean, secretive grandmother, does not know that she comes from a long line of healers until her Aunt Prairie arrives with answers about her past that could quickly threaten her future.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: healers, individuality [X], grandmothers, aunts, supernatural, occult fiction, zombies, identity, identity (philosophical concept) [X], paranormal fiction, identity (psychology) [X]

Kiki Strike

author: Miller, Kirsten
Fourteen-year-olds Ananka Fishbein, Kiki Strike, and the other Irregulars encounter a Chinese mummy, a ghost, trained squirrels, and old enemies as they try to stop an art forgery ring and safeguard the secret streets hidden beneath New York City.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: underground areas, crime, identity (psychology) [X], new york (n.y.), individuality [X], identity, identity (philosophical concept) [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories

Spork

author: Maclear, Kyo
Spork sticks out in the regimented world of the cutlery drawer and is never chosen at mealtimes until one day when a very messy thing arrives in the kitchen who has never heard of cutlery customs.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: implements, utensils, etc, identity (psychology) [X], picture books, identity, identity (philosophical concept) [X], picture books for children, tableware, kitchen utensils, individuality [X]

Sweet, Hereafter

author: Johnson, Angela
In this final book of the "Heaven" trilogy, Sweet leaves home and meets Curtis, a soldier from Iraq, and they spend time together at his cabin in the woods until Curtis gets orders to return to Iraq.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: individuality [X], interpersonal relations, iraq war, 2003-, african americans, identity (psychology) [X], identity (philosophical concept) [X], identity, electronic books, bildungsromans

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