Mostly The Honest Truth
"After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: foster home care, father-daughter relationship, family life, domestic fiction, fathers and daughters, dysfunctional families, family problems, social problem fiction [X]
Space Invaders
"The story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella Gonz?lez Jepsen.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, memory, missing children, video games, chile, social problem fiction [X], political fiction, bildungsromans
Such A Fun Age
"Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: babysitters, malicious accusation, interpersonal relations, african american women, race relations, social problem fiction [X]
Dear Justyce
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 87
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: juvenile detention homes, dysfunctional families, best friends, friendship, african americans, letters, family problems, family life, large type books, social problem fiction [X]
Fighting Words
"Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, child sexual abuse, sexual abuse, foster children, middle school students, suicide, social problem fiction [X]
Valentine
"It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: justice, administration of, teenage girls, race relations, vigilantes, administration of justice, odessa (tex.), social problem fiction [X]
The Assignment
When an assignment given by a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution, a euphemism used to describe the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people, Logan March and Cade Crawford are horrified.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: antisemitism, conduct of life, high schools, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), schools, school fiction, social problem fiction [X]
When Life Gives You Mangos
"Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: islands, amnesia, friendship, summer, social problem fiction [X], psychological fiction, realistic fiction
This Will Be Funny Someday
"Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to keeping her thoughts to herself, in school and at home.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls, stand-up comedy, chicago (ill.), humorous fiction, social problem fiction [X]
Thoughts & Prayers
"Three high school students attempt to repair their lives after a school shooting"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: grief, school shootings, high schools, schools, school stories, high school students, video games, minnesota, school fiction, social problem fiction [X]
We Are Inevitable
"After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be"--OCLC.
FIC
year:
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family-owned business enterprises, bookstores, books and reading, self-realization, grief, fathers and sons, coming of age, father-son relationship, bildungsromans, social problem fiction [X]
The Other Black Girl
"Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american women, publishers and publishing, conspiracies, racism, new york (n.y.), thrillers (fiction), social problem fiction [X]
Yusuf Azeem Is Not A Hero
"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September eleventh attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: middle schools, schools, discrimination, muslims, september 11 terrorist attacks, 2001, families, family life, school stories, texas, school fiction, social problem fiction [X]
What Strange Paradise
"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
You'd Be Home Now
"After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570