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1) Mellow mud
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Latin
Description
Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love reveal the character of Raya, a seventeen-year-old living in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. A huge turn of events shakes up their lives, and the young girl must come to decisions that even a grown woman would find challenging to make.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp--and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When young Halli Sveinsson plays a trick on Ragnor of the House of Hakonsson, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever alter his destiny, forcing him to leave home and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may finally be his match.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trust ExerciseTrust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave listeners with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer in the 1960s that he turns thirteen, a brilliant boy from a poor family develops an unlikely friendship with the Jewish jeweler in town; has his first romance; begins to think, as do most people in their Southern town, that his older brother murdered a popular boy from down the street; and distances himself from his father.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy who helps during the construction of a red barn on his family's land recalls his life as he and the barn grow older together.
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A luminous coming of age story about a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
Born in a carnival trailer, Leah Fern begins her life as the "The Youngest and Very Best Fortuneteller in the World," taking strangers' hands and feeling the depths of their emotions. Her mother Jeannie Starr is a captivating magician, but not always an attentive mother, and when Leah is six, Jeannie upends their carnival...
Author
Publisher
M.: Enas
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Эта книга, как и многие произведения Галины Щербаковой, – о периоде взросления, чрезвычайно важном этапе в жизни каждого человека. Когда все одноклассники вытянулись и возмужали, Мишка все еще оставался болезненным щуплым очкариком. И вдруг за одно...
15) Teen spirit
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Formats
Description
Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, TEEN SPIRIT is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **SXSW Film Festival**. "*"Teen Spirit,"...
16) Stop-Zemlia
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Language
Ukrainian
Formats
Description
Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she’s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
18) Héroes
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
-- La VanguardiaWayne Burrows, --
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of Italy... -- In this poetic, prizewinning debut, Silvia Avallone captures the lost innocence of a generation. Harrowing yet ultimately redemptive, Swimming to Elba is a story about the power of friendship, and the way that family, friendship, and economics shape our world.A Blackstone Audio production.
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