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New kid /

Craft, Jerry,


Junior Library Guild. School Library Journal starred, November 2018. Booklist starred, November 2018. Pub Weekly, November 2018. Kirkus Starred, November 2018. New York Times, March 2019. Horn Book, January 2019. Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, As Jordan travels from his Washington Heights neighborhood to the upscale Riverdale private school where he's starting seventh grade, he finds himself torn between two worlds---and not really fitting into either one.
Date Published:2019

Junior Library Guild. School Library Journal starred, November 2018. Booklist starred, November 2018. Pub Weekly, November 2018. Kirkus Starred, November 2018. New York Times, March 2019. Horn Book, January 2019. Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, As Jordan travels from his Washington Heights neighborhood to the upscale Riverdale private school where he's starting seventh grade, he finds himself torn between two worlds---and not really fitting into either one.

Date Published:2019

Witness /

Hesse, Karen,


Wilson's Children. School Library Journal starred. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Date Published:2001

Dragon Ball Z.

Toriyama, Akira, 1955-,


Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 1984 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--P. facing t.p. Collects volumes 1-3. "Three in one"--Cover. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. Volume 1. The world's greatest team -- Volume 2. The lord of worlds -- Volume 3. Earth vs. the Saiyans. Son Goku must use his superhuman strength to fight of the Saiyans, alien warriors who have set their sites on Earth.
Date Published:2008

Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 1984 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--P. facing t.p. Collects volumes 1-3. "Three in one"--Cover. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. Volume 1. The world's greatest team -- Volume 2. The lord of worlds -- Volume 3. Earth vs. the Saiyans. Son Goku must use his superhuman strength to fight of the Saiyans, alien warriors who have set their sites on Earth.

Date Published:2008

The Naturals / The Naturals #1 /

Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn),


Publisher's Weekly, September 2013. Booklist, November 2013. Kirkus Review, October 2013. School Library Journal, December 2013. Horn Book, October 2014. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2013. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2013. Library Media Connection, March 2014. "Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2013

Publisher's Weekly, September 2013. Booklist, November 2013. Kirkus Review, October 2013. School Library Journal, December 2013. Horn Book, October 2014. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2013. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2013. Library Media Connection, March 2014. "Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2013

Fetch-22

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


"Petey the Cat is out of jail, and he has a brand-new lease on life. While Petey's reevaluated what matters most, Li'l Petey is struggling to find the good in the world. Can Petey and Dog Man stop fighting like cats and dogs long enough to put their paws together and work as a team? They need each other now more than ever, Li'l Petey--and the world--is counting on them!"--OCLC.
Date Published:2019

These vengeful gods

Novoa, Gabe Cole,


Publishers Weekly, February 2025. Booklist, April 2025. Kirkus Review, March 2025. School Library Journal starred, August 2025. Crow, a teen descended from the god of Death, must keep their true identity hidden while navigating a dangerous gladiator-style competition, fighting to win freedom for their family and challenge the gods who killed their ancestors.
Date Published:2025

Teaching for transfer : a guide for designing learning with real-world application /

McDowell, Michael (Michael P.),


"In Teaching for Transfer: A Guide for Designing Learning With Real-World Application, author Michael McDowell provides a guide that educators can use to improve their teaching, engage their students, and develop their students' transfer abilities. McDowell notes that teachers want students to meet transfer goals and become proficient in transfer. However, McDowell notes, creating a classroom and curriculum that develops students' transfer abilities is a daunting task. As such, this book answers the how and the why of teaching for transfer. Readers will become familiar with transfer and study the foundational concepts and theories of teaching for transfer. Using this foundational background, they will also be provided with an in-depth, concrete guide to the styles of teaching that are necessary to effectively develop students' transfer abilities. Using this book, readers will have all of the information and actionable strategies that they need to develop a system of teaching that enables all students to hit their transfer goals"--
Date Published:2020

"In Teaching for Transfer: A Guide for Designing Learning With Real-World Application, author Michael McDowell provides a guide that educators can use to improve their teaching, engage their students, and develop their students' transfer abilities. McDowell notes that teachers want students to meet transfer goals and become proficient in transfer. However, McDowell notes, creating a classroom and curriculum that develops students' transfer abilities is a daunting task. As such, this book answers the how and the why of teaching for transfer. Readers will become familiar with transfer and study the foundational concepts and theories of teaching for transfer. Using this foundational background, they will also be provided with an in-depth, concrete guide to the styles of teaching that are necessary to effectively develop students' transfer abilities. Using this book, readers will have all of the information and actionable strategies that they need to develop a system of teaching that enables all students to hit their transfer goals"--

Date Published:2020

Golden arm

Deuker, Carl,


School Library Journal, February 2020. Booklist starred, March 2020. Kirkus Review, February 2020. Junior Library Guild. Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Date Published:2022

The Cruel Prince /

Black, Holly,


School Library Journal starred, October 2017. Booklist starred, October 2017. Pub Weekly, October 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Horn Book, January 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2018. Kirkus Review, October 2017. Junior Library Guild. New York Times, March 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2018. Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal starred, October 2017. Booklist starred, October 2017. Pub Weekly, October 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Horn Book, January 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2018. Kirkus Review, October 2017. Junior Library Guild. New York Times, March 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2018. Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.

Date Published:2018

It's okay to be different /

Parr, Todd,


"Megan Tingley Books.". School Library Journal. Kirkus Review. Illustrations and brief text describe all kinds of differences that are "okay," such as being a different color, needing some help, being adopted, and having a different nose.
Date Published:2001

The inheritance games /

Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn),


"She came from nothing. They have everything/ let the games begin." --Cover. School Library Journal, July 2020. Pub Weekly, July 2020. Kirkus Starred, August 2020. Booklist, October 2020. ALA Booklist. Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, When a teen inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family--a family hellbent on discovering just how she earned her inheritance.
Date Published:2020

"She came from nothing. They have everything/ let the games begin." --Cover. School Library Journal, July 2020. Pub Weekly, July 2020. Kirkus Starred, August 2020. Booklist, October 2020. ALA Booklist. Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, When a teen inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family--a family hellbent on discovering just how she earned her inheritance.

Date Published:2020

Two tribes /

Bowen Cohen, Emily,


"Ages 8-12"--Back cover of paperback. School Library Journal starred, July 2023. Publishers Weekly, June 2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2023. Kirkus Review, June 2023. Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, "In her . . . debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the complexity, meaning, and deep love that comes from being part of two vibrant lives. Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life"--Back cover.
Date Published:2023

"Ages 8-12"--Back cover of paperback. School Library Journal starred, July 2023. Publishers Weekly, June 2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2023. Kirkus Review, June 2023. Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, "In her . . . debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the complexity, meaning, and deep love that comes from being part of two vibrant lives. Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life"--Back cover.

Date Published:2023

The revolution of Evelyn Serrano /

Manzano, Sonia,


School Library Journal, November 2012. Booklist starred, October 2012. Publisher's Weekly, August 2012. Horn Book, November 2012. Choice, April 2013. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2012. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2012. Teacher Librarian, February 2013. It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
Date Published:2012

School Library Journal, November 2012. Booklist starred, October 2012. Publisher's Weekly, August 2012. Horn Book, November 2012. Choice, April 2013. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2012. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2012. Teacher Librarian, February 2013. It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.

Date Published:2012

None shall sleep / None Shall Sleep #1 /

Marney, Ellie,


Booklist, August 2020. "Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

Dragon Ball Z.

Toriyama, Akira, 1955-,


Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 1984 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--Page facing t.p. "Three in one"--Cover. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. Volume 10. Goku vs. Freeza -- Volume 11. The Super Saiyan -- Volume 12. Enter Trunks. Collects no. 10-12 of "Dragon Ball Z" in which Goku and his friends battle Freeza, whose power gets more intense every time he transforms.
Date Published:2009

Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 1984 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--Page facing t.p. "Three in one"--Cover. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. Volume 10. Goku vs. Freeza -- Volume 11. The Super Saiyan -- Volume 12. Enter Trunks. Collects no. 10-12 of "Dragon Ball Z" in which Goku and his friends battle Freeza, whose power gets more intense every time he transforms.

Date Published:2009

How to survive your murder /

Valentine, Danielle,


"Alice is sent back to the night of her sister's murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

How to survive a horror movie

Dunmore, Scarlett,


School Library Journal, September 2025. Pub Weekly, June 2025. When a serial killer starts murdering her classmates, high school senior Charley starts seeing their ghosts and must use her extensive knowledge of horror films to survive.
Date Published:2025

The girls I've been / The Girls I've Been #1 /

Sharpe, Tess,


School Library Journal, December 2020. Booklist starred, December 2020. Kirkus Starred, December 2020. School Library Journal. Booklist starred. Kirkus Starred. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, "When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel"--OCLC.
Date Published:2021

School Library Journal, December 2020. Booklist starred, December 2020. Kirkus Starred, December 2020. School Library Journal. Booklist starred. Kirkus Starred. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, "When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel"--OCLC.

Date Published:2021

The girl in question / The Girls I've Been #2 /

Sharpe, Tess,


School Library Journal, May 2024. "High school is over, but Nora O'Malley's life isn't, which is weird now that her murderous stepdad Raymond is free. Determined to enjoy summer before her (possibly) imminent demise, Nora plans a ten day backpacking trip with Iris and Wes. Her plans hit a snag when Wes's girlfriend tags along. Amanda is nice, so it's not a huge issue--until she gets taken. Or rather, mistaken . . . for Nora. All because of a borrowed flannel. Now Raymond has a hostage. Nora has no leverage. Iris has a spear and Wes is building boobytraps. It'll take all of their skills to make it out of the forest alive. There are three problems: Someone is lying. Someone is keeping secrets. And someone has to die"--Amazon.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal, May 2024. "High school is over, but Nora O'Malley's life isn't, which is weird now that her murderous stepdad Raymond is free. Determined to enjoy summer before her (possibly) imminent demise, Nora plans a ten day backpacking trip with Iris and Wes. Her plans hit a snag when Wes's girlfriend tags along. Amanda is nice, so it's not a huge issue--until she gets taken. Or rather, mistaken . . . for Nora. All because of a borrowed flannel. Now Raymond has a hostage. Nora has no leverage. Iris has a spear and Wes is building boobytraps. It'll take all of their skills to make it out of the forest alive. There are three problems: Someone is lying. Someone is keeping secrets. And someone has to die"--Amazon.

Date Published:2024

Forget this ever happened /

Clarke, Cassandra Rose, 1983-,


School Library Journal, August 2020. Pub Weekly, September 2020. Booklist, August 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2020. Kirkus Review, August 2020. "Set in 1993, teenage Claire navigates the eerie town of Indianola, Texas, where a fissure in time and space has made nothing is as it seems"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020