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- A girl like that / by Bhathena, Tanaz.;
- In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.LSC
- Subjects: East Indians; Dating (Social customs); Rape; Bullying; Religion; High schools; Schools;
- Agent Cody Banks. by Zwart, Harald,film director.; Francis, Andrew,actor.; Muniz, Frankie,actor.; Duff, Hilary,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Andrew Francis, Frankie Muniz, Hilary DuffOriginally produced by MGM in 2003.Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz), a high school student and newly-recruited junior CIA agent, is on his first mission to stop an evil mastermind from misusing technology created by a brilliant scientist, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan), to rule the world. The agency sends Cody to work undercover at a private school where Connors’ daughter, Natalie (Hilary Duff), is a student; however, he’s awkward around girls and off to a rough start. Can Cody save the world, get the girl…and not miss curfew?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Comedy.; Motion pictures.;
- The Perfect Son [electronic resource] : by McFadden, Freida.aut; Althens, Suzie.nrt; May, Daniel Thomas.nrt; cloudLibrary;
- "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night . . . " Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst—murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth—Liam may have done the unthinkable. Now she must ask herself: How far will she go to protect her son?
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological; Suspense;
- © 2022., Tantor Audio,
- Colorado kidnapping / by Myers, Cindi,author.;
- The disappearance of his young daughter sets sheriff's deputy Ryker Vernon on the trail of desperate kidnappers. Complicating the single father's mission is the search and rescue volunteer who joins the lawman's team. Harper Stanick was Ryker's high school sweetheart ... until she vanished from his life. As past secrets surface, the hunt leads to someone close to Ryker. Now he and Harper must stop a ruthless criminal with a deadly agenda if they are to bring his lost little girl home.
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Kidnapping; Man-woman relationships; Reunions; Search and rescue operations; Secrecy;
- Girlmode [graphic novel] / by Visaggio, Magdalene,author.; Ganucheau, Paulina,illustrator.;
- The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and no guidebook on how to be a girl, that isn't going to be easy. Enter Mackenize Ishikawa. She's the girl who all girls want to be, and all the boys want to be with--and, Mackenzie has decided, Phoebe's new best friend. Mackenzie knows what it takes to survive and thrive as a girl in high school, most of all that no matter who Phoebe wants to be, or who she wants to date, she's going to need someone having her back. Phoebe soon realizes what Mackenzie knows too well: Being true to yourself is going to mean breaking some hearts. But as Phoebe discovers what kind of girl she is--and what kind of girl everyone around her thinks she's supposed to be--she worries one of those hearts will be her own.014+.Grades 10-12.
- Subjects: Transgender comics.; Queer comics.; Romance comics.; Graphic novels.; School comics.; High school students; Transfer students; Transgender women; Transgender youth; Identity (Psychology); Dating (Social customs); Friendship; High schools;
- Zero-sum : stories / by Oates, Joyce Carol,1938-author.;
- "A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero Sum reinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life"--
- Subjects: Short stories.;
- Fun home [graphic novel] : a family tragicomic / by Bechdel, Alison,1960-author,illustrator.;
- A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Bechdel, Alison, 1960-; Cartoonists;
- Dying for devil's food / by McKinlay, Jenn.;
- Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-year high school reunion, but Angie insists it's only right that they bask in the success of Fairy Tale Cupcakes--and Mel's engagement to the delicious Joe DeLaura is the cherry on top! Everything is going better than expected until Cassidy Havers, resident mean girl and Mel's high school nemesis, picks a fight. No longer willing to put up with Cassidy's bullying, Mel is ready to tell the former homecoming queen to shut her piehole and call it a night. But as Mel and Joe prepare to depart, Cassidy is found dead in the girl's bathroom, next to a note written in lipstick that points right to Mel--making her the prime suspect. Now, Mel must follow the clues to find the real killer and keep her reputation from being frosted for a crime she didn't commit.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Bakeries; Murder;
- The most likely club / by Friedland, Elyssa,author.;
- "At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends makes a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another in this lively new novel from the acclaimed author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel. In 1997, grunge is king, Titanic is a blockbuster (and Blockbuster still exists), and Thursday nights are for Friends. In Bellport, Connecticut, four best friends and high school seniors are ready to light the world on fire. Melissa Levin, Priya Chowdhury, Tara Taylor, and Suki Hammer are going places. Their yearbook superlatives confirm it: Most Likely to Win the White House, Cure Cancer, Open a Michelin-Starred Restaurant, and Join the Forbes 400. Fast-forward twenty-five years and nothing has gone according to plan as the women regroup at their dreaded high school reunion. When a forgotten classmate emerges at the reunion with a surprising announcement, the friends dig out the yearbook and rethink their younger selves. Is it too late to make their dreams come true? Fueled by nostalgia and one too many drinks, they form a pact to push through their middle-aged angst to bring their teenage aspirations to fruition, dubbing themselves the "Most Likely Girls." Through the ensuing highs and lows, they are reminded of the enduring bonds of friendship and the ways our childhood dreams both sustain and surprise us--and why it's deeply uncool to peak in high school"--
- Subjects: Novels.; Ambition; Friendship; Middle aged women;
- Giant little ones [videorecording] / by Behrman, Keith,1963-film director,screenwriter.; Bello, Maria,1967-actor.; MacLachlan, Kyle,1959-actor.; Mann, Darren,actor.; Wiggins, Josh,actor.; Wolfe Video (Firm),film distributor.;
- Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Kyle MacLachlan, Maria Bello, Taylor Hickson.Franky Winter and Ballas Kohl have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life, until the night of Franky's epic seventeenth birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. It is a heartfelt and intimate coming-of-age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of love without labels.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, language and some drug/alcohol use - all involving teens.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
- Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Best friends; Coming of age; Bullying; Male friendship; Young gay men;
- For private home use only.
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