Juneteenth Jamboree
Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: family life, afro-americans, texas [X], african americans, families, electronic books, electronic books [X]
A Good Long Way
Three Mexican American teenagers in a small-town in Texas struggle with difficulties at home and at school as they try to attain the elusive status of adulthood.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: dysfunctional families, emotional problems of children, runaway children, schools, brothers, texas [X], family problems, emotional problems, runaways, mexican americans, school stories, electronic books, electronic books [X]
Feral Pride
After a video of Kayla goes viral and a weresnake kidnaps a politician, Kayla, Yoshi, Clyde, and Aimee are declared fugitives and the were-community are targeted and threatened with a vaccine designed to suppress the ability to shift.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: fantasy, shapeshifting, friendship, metamorphosis, texas [X], kidnapping, electronic books, electronic books [X]
Juneteenth
In Juneteenth, young readers will learn about this African-American holiday and the ways people celebrate it.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 280
subjects: african americans, slaves, juneteenth, texas [X], holidays, electronic books, readers (publications), electronic books [X]
The Other Half Of Happy
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are keeping secrets, because she is sure there is something wrong with her little brother, Memito, who is becoming increasingly hard to reach.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: racially mixed children, racially mixed families, ethnicity, identity (psychology), brothers and sisters, parent and child, texas [X], racially mixed people, identity, family life, siblings, parent-child relationship, domestic fiction, domestic fiction, electronic books [X]
Butterfly Yellow
"In the final days of the Vietnam War, Hang takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: refugees, brothers and sisters, vietnamese, siblings, refugees, vietnamese, historical fiction, vietnamese refugees, texas [X], historical fiction, electronic books [X]
The Liars Of Mariposa Island
"Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers and sisters, families, family secrets, immigrants, family life, secrets, siblings, historical fiction, single mothers, children of alcoholics, islands, cuban americans, texas [X], domestic fiction, electronic books [X]
Are You Listening?
Eighteen-year-old Bea runs from her small-town Texas home and meets Lou, who is taking a road trip to cope with the grief of losing her mother.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: runaway teenagers, automobile travel, female friendship, runaways, cartoons and comics, texas [X], graphic novels, teenagers, graphic novels, electronic books [X]
My Boyfriend Is A Monster
Upon moving to small-town Texas part-way into her junior year of high school, Serena sees parallels between the novel her class is studying, "Dr.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340
subjects: high schools, schools, dating (social customs), moving, household, family life, graphic novels, horror stories, cartoons and comics, school stories, moving, horror fiction, comic books, strips, etc, texas [X], electronic books [X]