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61) Sing Street
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem: he's...
Author
Series
The Pathfinders society volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate try to return home after being transported fifty years into the past while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a fish hears the singing of a violin, it is drawn out of the water and into the world of a young musician sitting on a shady bench. Soon fish and boy are flying over the rooftops together, past lively street musicians, a flock of birds, then from planet to planet, before landing back on earth for an idyllic afternoon in the park. In a forest of giant dandelions they discover a little house where a band plays cheerily, then, swept up by the wind,...
65) Guerrilla season
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Two fifteen-year-old boys in Missouri in 1863 find friendship and family loyalty tested by Quantrell's raiders, a Rebel guerrilla band who roamed under the black flag of "no quarter to be given by Union troops."
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Wanting to help a lost baby polar bear return home, Kiki Coral and her mermaid friends worry that the cost of the bear's transportation will prevent them from seeing a concert performance of their favorite boy band.
67) Mighty oak
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Manager Gina Jackson's life is given a new purpose when she meets a young guitar prodigy. Convinced the boy is the reincarnation of her brother, lead singer of Army of Love, who died ten years ago, she embarks on a mission to get the band back together.
68) Barakah Beats
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillian Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Marvel titles in Disney's World of Reading line are designed to offer reluctant readers, specifically boys, books that they'll want to read by featuring characters they love. The series is broken into three levels that invoke the rigorous training courses that their favorite Marvel heroes must engage in to perfect their superpowers. In reading this series, boys will perfect their own power to read. In this 48-page Level 3 Reader, the X-Men most...
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to get your groove on because it's showtime with Angelina and the Pop Star Girls. While all the dancers learn to work together, Angelina realizes she loves hip-hop, rock bands, fiddles, and more. Move and groove along with Angelina as she directs a hip-hop musical and discovers she was born to be a star.".
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
LIVE IN JAPAN Dai s band of teenage musicians finally has a name: Jass, a throwback to the early days of jazz. They re pulling in crowds, too, winning their first-ever payday and the jealousy of an older band. But Yukinori isn't content just to play clubs. He s got his sights set on the biggest venue in all of Tokyo, hoping to put them on the map with a sensational performance from a group of young unknowns. Yukinori may be a technical genius, and...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Taylor Barzelay has the perfect life. Good looks, good grades, a starting position on the basketball team, a loving family, even an adorable corgi. Every day in Taylor's life is perfect. And every day is torture. Taylor is actually the Galaxy Crowned, an alien princess from the planet Cyandii, and one of the few survivors of an intergalactic war. For six long, painful years, Taylor has accepted her duty to remain in hiding as a boy on Earth. That...
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2021]
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,...
78) Where I belong
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all"--
79) The bronze bow
Author
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus teaches him love and understanding of others.