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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He's been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents' new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as "brown boy" by small-minded,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives...
323) Ana Frank
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición impresa en México.
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué habría pasado si Ana Frank hubiera sobrevivido al holocausto? Es el año 1945 y Ana Frank es una joven de dieciséis años que ha sobrevivido a los campos de concentración, pero su madre y su hermana no tuvieron la misma suerte. De milagro, Ana logra reunirse con su padre, Pim, en la recién liberada Ámsterdam, y el reencuentro abre la esperanza de una nueva vida para ellos.
324) Piglettes
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age road trip story - winner of France's biggest prize for teen and YA fiction. Awarded the Gold, Silver and Bronze trotters after a vote by their classmates on Facebook, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima are officially the three ugliest girls in their school, but does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it? Well... yes, a bit, but not for long! Climbing aboard their bikes, the trio set off on...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Kya Clark is the "Marsh Girl" of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world-- until the unthinkable happens. When Chase...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles an early experience of a sixteen-year-old girl who seeks romance, a friend, and her mother's approval. Of course, getting approval from a mother like Cora is next to impossible. After all, Cora is an evil witch. As Regina struggles to find her own identity and create her own destiny, she discovers that her fate might just be to become everything she despises.
327) Yerba Buena
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1. editión.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Sara Foster se escapa de casa con dieciséis años, deja atrás a la niña que un día fue, capaz de desarrollar vínculos de confianza e intimidad. Años después, ya establecida en Los Ángeles, se ha convertido en una codiciada barman, conocida tanto por sus brillantes cócteles como por el misterio que le rodea. Al otro lado de la ciudad, Emilie Dubois está estancada, anhelando la belleza y la comunidad que sus abuelos criollos...
328) Ida in the middle
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what's coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it's all her fault--just for being Palestinian! In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school. But people still treat her like she'll never fit in. Ida wishes she could disappear. One day, dreading a final class project, Ida hunts for food. She discovers a jar of olives that came from a beloved aunt in her family's village...
329) Pandora hearts: [1]
Author
Series
Pandora hearts volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
During Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony, he is condemned for an unknown sin and banished to the Abyss, an unescapable prison, where he must discover the nature of his sin with the help of a mysterious girl named Alice.
330) La autopista Lincoln
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Amor Towles vuelve con una historia colosal sobre el viaje iniciático de cuatro jóvenes por el corazón de Estados Unidos durante la década de los años cincuenta. Contada desde múltiples puntos de vista y poblada por un variado elenco de personajes magnéticos, desde vagabundos que malviven entre raíles hasta aristócratas del Upper East Side, La autopista Lincoln es una novela arrolladora de encuentros y desencuentros, un azaroso...
331) Paraíso
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce años, le dicen que vivirá con su tío Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empeñado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajará por África central y las riberas del Congo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial. A través de los ojos...
333) American blonde
Author
Series
Velva Jean volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1945, Velva Jean Hart is a bona fide war heroine. After a newsreel films her triumphant return to America, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promises to make her a star. They give her a new life story and a brand new name. As "Kit Rogers," she navigates the movie sets, recording sessions, parties, staged romances, and occasional backstabbing that accompany her newfound fame. She also navigates real-life romance, finding herself caught between a charismatic young...
335) The golden sheep: 3
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition ; A Vertical Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
Tsugu and Sora ran away from home, Yuushin took on the challenging professional boxer test, and Asari broke off ties with the girls in her class... Nothing is turning out the way they'd hoped. Even in the face of such painful headwinds, they continue their restless adolescent journey... -- Publisher.
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