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Mirror to mirror / by LaRocca, Rajani.;
Unable to find their rhythm, once-close twin sisters Maya and Chaya make a bet: they'll switch places at summer camp and whoever can keep the ruse going the longest will get to make a life-changing decision, which isn't as easy as it sounds.Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Twin sisters; Families; Anxiety; Camps;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last verse : a novel / by Frost, Caroline,author.;
From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Ambition; Betrayal; Country music; Country musicians; Determination (Personality trait); Extortion; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen seventies; Women country musicians; Women singers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Other words for home / by Warga, Jasmine.;
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Syrians; Immigrant children; Families; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Deep water / by Sumner, Jamie.;
Twelve-year-old Tully's attempt to swim across Lake Tahoe after a heartbreaking loss and become the youngest person to complete the famous "Godfather" swim takes a dangerous turn, forcing her to choose between safety and a win that could change everything.Ages 10 up.
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Long distance swimming; Mothers; Loss (Psychology); Best friends; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess / by Green, Shari,1963-;
Dealing with her mother remarrying to a man with twin daughters and her family moving, deaf sixth-grader Macy is sent next door to help eighty-six-year-old Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move into an assisted living facility.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Deaf children; Stepfamilies; Neighbors; Older people; Friendship; Moving, Household;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Missing Mike / by Green, Shari,1963-;
Twelve-year-old Caera Donovan and her family flee a wildfire bearing down on their hometown of Pine Grove, with no time to find Caera's beloved dog Mike. Faced with the loss of everything she knows, Caera can't stand to lose Mike as well and seeks a way to sneak back to Pine Grove. When her plans are thwarted, she must learn to embrace a new definition of "home".LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Forest fires; Pet loss; Wildfires; Human-animal relationships; Home; Evacuation of civilians;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Death's country / by Romero, R. M.(Rachael Maria),1987-author.;
After drowning and making a deal with Death for a new life, Andres Santos starts over in Miami where he forms a polyamorous triad with Renee and Liora, but when Liora ends up in a coma, Andres and Renee embark on a journey into the underworld to retrieve her spirit and reunite it with her body before it is too late.Ages 14&Up.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels in verse.; Death; Sexual minorities; Soul; Voyages to the otherworld; Death; LGBTQ+ people; Soul; Voyages to the otherworld;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hazard / by Dowell, Frances O'Roark.;
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma that has made him refuse to see his sons.Ages 9-13.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Families of military personnel; Fathers and sons; Anger; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychoanalytic counseling; Amputees; Afghan War, 2001-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Clap when you land / by Acevedo, Elizabeth.;
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Domestic fiction.; Aircraft accidents; Sisters; Families; Grief; Parents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fly / by Hughes, Alison,1966-;
Felix Landon Yarrow (Fly) is a 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who has a rich inner life and a witty, sometimes sarcastic, inner voice. Obsessed with the noble, chivalrous ideals of knighthood, he sets out into the wilderness (high school) on his steed (a mechanized wheelchair) to protect and save his lady love, Daria, from the nefarious villain (Carter, a pill-dealing cool kid). With the help of a trusty, loyal sidekick (his aide, Levi) and a computer, Fly constructs an elaborate trap, setting in motion events he thinks he can control -- but as they say, even the best laid plans can go awry.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Cerebral palsy; Middle school students; Knights and knighthood; Interpersonal relations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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