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When eleven-year-old Vanessa discovers an abandoned museum, she starts filling it with her own projects and art and memories, thinking maybe, if she can put them all together in just the right way, she can finally understand why she and her relationships are the way they are.
3) Turtle boy
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2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
2024-2025 Battle of the Books 5th-6th Grade
Caudill Award 2024
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2024-2025 Battle of the Books 5th-6th Grade
Caudill Award 2024
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"Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-looking chin. And for his bar mitzvah community service project, he's forced to go to the hospital to visit RJ, an older boy struggling with an incurable disease. At first, the boys don't get along, but then RJ shares his bucket list with Will. Among the things he wants to do: ride a roller coaster; go to a school dance; swim in the ocean. To Will, happiness...
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Books with Neurodiverse Characters (SCPL-YS)
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
Favorites for 4th Graders
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Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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"When twelve-year-old Lara Finkel starts her very own detective agency, FIASCCO (Finkel Investigation Agency Solving Consequential Crimes Only), she does not want her sister, Caroline, involved. She and Caroline don't have to do everything together. But Caroline won't give up, and when she brings Lara the firm's first mystery, Lara relents, and the questions start piling up. But Lara and Caroline's truce doesn't last for long. Caroline normally uses...
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Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
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Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
GPLD Best Fantasy for Teens
Jewish American Heritage Month (kids & teen)
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GPLD Best Fantasy for Teens
Jewish American Heritage Month (kids & teen)
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When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
2024 Youth Media Award Winners
Children's Staff Picks 4/2025
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2024 Youth Media Award Winners
Children's Staff Picks 4/2025
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Shaindy, a lonely twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl, jumps at the opportunity to join in on a harmless prank with her classmate and neighbor Gayil, but as the pranks escalate, Shaindy realizes they are targeted at specific girls and fears she will be the next victim if she cannot find a way to stop them.
8) Not so shy
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Twelve-year-old Shai hates having to move to America and is determined to find a way get back home to Israel--until she starts opening up to new experiences and friendships.
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Craving a Good Book
Delicious Reads (teens)
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Craving a Good Book
Delicious Reads (teens)
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Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.
13) Ain't it funny
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Eleven-year-old Maya refuses to let her growing anxiety and OCD hold her back from using stand-up comedy to bring her parents back together.
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Miriam's magical creature files volume 1
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Miriam, a young Orthodox Jew, uses her detective skills to investigate and debunk the Tooth Fairy's existence, but her investigation takes an unexpected turn that leads her to question whether the Tooth Fairy might be real after all.
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Jewish American Heritage Month 2025
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teen
OBD ALA 2025 Award List Books - YOUTH
Pride Month Teens
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teen
OBD ALA 2025 Award List Books - YOUTH
Pride Month Teens
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Stuck in a time loop, queer Jewish teens Phoebe and Jess start to fall for each other, causing chronically ill Phoebe to worry about a future that may never come.
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Lola Levine volume 3
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"When a class mishap lands Lola and new student Bella in Principal Blot's office, Lola's mom comes up with a ballet scheme that might make these classroom rivals realize that ballerinas and soccer players have more in common than they ever thought possible"-- Provided by publisher.
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