Girl Overboard
Everybody thinks Syrah is the golden girl. After all, her father is Ethan Cheng, billionaire, and she has everything a kid could possibly desire;except her half siblings hate her and her boyfriend is only with her for her father's money.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: individuality [X], families, interpersonal relations, chinese americans, snowboarding, seattle (wash.) [X], family
Paper Daughter
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), journalism, identity, seattle (wash.) [X], identity (psychology), individuality [X]
Run If You Dare
Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: fathers and sons, identity, father-son relationship, individuality [X], seattle (wash.) [X]
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: magic, dead, werewolves, identity, supernatural, seattle (wash.) [X], individuality [X], children's audiobooks
Beacon Hill Boys
In 1972 in Seattle, a teenager in a Japanese American family struggles for his own identity, along with a group of three friends who share his anger and confusion.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750