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3) Bros
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating boyhood and friendship, this upbeat picture book follows a group of young Black boys as they spend an adventure-filled day together living their best lives freely in their community.
4) Prom babies
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt Books and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A multi-generational novel beginning with three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night, and picking up as their three teens head to prom eighteen years later"--
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 21
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Convinced their principal is a witch, Andres and Desmond's next step is to find out if she is a good one or a bad one.
7) Field day!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister are super excited for their school's field day.
Author
Series
Ethan Fairmont volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ethan Fairmont and his friends attempt intergalactic communication and discover danger lurking close to home"--Provided by publisher.
When sixth-grader Ethan and his friends discover evil aliens, known as light-thieves, are infiltrating Ferrous City, they use their science skills to save their town and their alien friend, Cheese.
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost grandmother:...
11) Blood justice
Author
Series
Blood Debts volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice.They took back their family's stolen throne to lead New Orleans' magical community into the brighter future they all deserve. But when Cris and Clem restored their family power, Valentina Savant lost everything. Her beloved grandparents are gone and her sovereignty has been revoked--she will never be Queen. Unless, of course, someone dethrones the Trudeaus again. And lucky for her,...
12) Mid-air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Isaiah grapples with the loss of his best friend as he strives to fit into a world that expects him to toughen up, which leads him on a exploration of identity and vulnerability.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who's perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it's a meaningless job and a comfortingly empty apartment. Then, after a decade of estrangement, she receives a letter from her former best...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1952: Ella Fitzgerald is a renowned jazz singer whose only roadblock to longevity is society's attitude toward women and race. Marilyn Monroe's star is rising despite ongoing battles with movie studio bigwigs and boyfriends. When she needs help with her singing, she wants only the best-and the best is the brilliant Ella Fitzgerald. But Ella isn't a singing teacher and declines-then the two women meet, and to everyone's surprise but their own, they...
19) Cute toot
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows attics are the best place to play hide and seek on a rainy day. That is, unless your stomach is rumbling with a bubbly gas that you absolutely cannot keep in. When Baby sister lets one sneaky fart slip out, she betrays her hiding spot and begins the most phenomenal fart fest this attic has ever seen...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Karmen is about to start her last year of high school, but it's only been six weeks since her brother, Julian, died by suicide. How is she supposed to focus on school when huge questions Why is Julian gone? How could she have missed seeing his pain? Could she have helped him? When a blowup at school gets Karmen sent home for a few weeks, life gets more things between her parents are tenser than ever, her best friend's acting like a stranger, and...