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As Simple As It Seems

author: Weeks, Sarah
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910

Mercy On These Teenage Chimps

author: Soto, Gary
At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps--long armed, big eared, and gangly--and when the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to come down.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: best friends, friendship [X], puberty [X], coming of age

Diary Of A Minecraft Zombie

author: Zombie, Zack
"Minecraft has gone through another major update. Normally, a few things might disappear .
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 435
call number/section: FIC
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Spurt

author: Miles, Chris
Eighth-grader Jack, a former reality television star and distressed at not reaching puberty, decides to "fake it until he makes it.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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The Moon Within

author: Salazar, Aida
"Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960

Taking Up Space

author: Gerber, Alyson
Twelve-year-old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach her how to cook and suggests she partners with him in a cooking competition she starts to find a way to stand up for herself and change her life for the better.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins!

author: Evans, Karina
"Twelve-year-old Tahlia Wilkins has to deal with getting her first period just before the biggest pool party of the year"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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The World Divided By Piper

author: Carter, Caela
"Eleven-year-old Piper has big plans. First, she'll win the Academic Decathlon with her best friend, Tallulah.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: girls, puberty [X], family life, friendship [X], bildungsromans

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