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"With their first formal school dance around the corner, Beth and Chanda are on a mission to make it the best night ever. Step one? Secure the perfect dresses so they can dominate the dance floor! But when neither of them can find an outfit that lives up to their high expectations--and when they encounter unexpected pressure to find dates--these besties will need to lean on their friendship more than ever if they hope to find their groove and bust...
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2025 Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Graphic Novel
If You Like Dog Man
New Children's Books December 2022
Superheroes
If You Like Dog Man
New Children's Books December 2022
Superheroes
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"When a new phone app turns all of his friends into zombies, Leon, who lives in a city full of superheroes and supervillains, uses his brain and follows his heart to save the day, transforming from ordinary to extraordinary"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Freestyle
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"While preparing for the last major dance competition before they graduate from eighth grade and go to separate high schools in NYC, Cory must balance the expectations of his parents, school, crew and his new friend as pressure mounts from all sides"-- Provided by publisher.
6) The waves
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The Waves is Virginia Woolf's most experimental and lyrical novel, capturing the inner lives of six friends as they move from childhood to adulthood, each voice blending and separating like the tides they witness by the sea. Through shifting soliloquies, Woolf reveals their innermost thoughts, fears, and desires, weaving a delicate tapestry of identity and connection against the unrelenting passage of time.
As Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny,...
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"Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to everybody in the Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried-what kind of spooky thing will happen next? Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: Wear this bad-luck charm, it says. Or else. Mary Anne's got to do what the note says. But who sent the charm? And why did this person...
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"Mary Anne has never been a leader of the BSC. So when a fight breaks out among the club's four members, Mary Anne feels a little lost, unable to depend on Kristy, Stacey, or Claudia anymore. Sitting by herself in the cafeteria is bad enough; when Mary Anne has to baby-sit a sick child without any help from the club, she knows someone has to take action. It's time for Mary Anne to step in and save the day!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
16) Betsy-Tacy
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After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends.
17) Wahala: a novel
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"An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha"-- Provided by publisher.
18) Rich and pretty
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This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives.As close as sisters for twenty years, Sarah and Lauren have been together through high school and college, first jobs and first loves, the uncertainties of their twenties and the realities of their thirties.Sarah, the only child...
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