Mai has her summer planned: go to the beach and hang out with her friends. But her parents have something else in mind: a visit to her grandmother in Vietnam. What seems like a boring summer vacation because her journey in helping her grandmother find her lost husband - the grandfather she never met.
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Elizabeth Acevedo's first novel and winner of the Printz Award, Pura Belpre Award and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature as just arrived to our collection. Experience life through Xiomara's eyes as she tries to find her own voice in a world where her mother keeps her tight under her wing. This verse-written novel will keep you glued to the page. One school shooting at a small town. Six survivors. . . One story. . . But is it really what happened? Follow the journey of these six survivors towards their healing and the attempt to clarify what really happened that day. This story will keep you reading to the end as you piece together what happened and struggle to get their lives back. Available at our library! Here are some new titles that Middle School readers will like. . . Rachel Cohen has discovered her love for photography, but now she must leave school. The Nazi regiment is threatening to take over France and in order to survive she must change her name and go into hiding. This is a graphic novel originally written in French and translated into English. Follow the adventures of a wizard, a barbarian, a paladin and an elf as they step out of their world through a gateway that takes them to the mysterious world called middle school. This is a humorous adventure that will keep you laughing. A magical summer where two girls become friends and find a safe space where they can hide from their parents and the hardships they face at home. This adventure stories will take you in a quest with Faryn Liu and her friends as she searches for the island of the immortals and proves she is worthy of being the Heaven breaker, the Jade Emperor's warrior. Amada can't wait to visit her father at Harlem and meet his side of the family. But will New York fulfill her expectations? Is there a deeper connection than blood to the people she calls family? Follow Fort Fitzgerald and his friends as they uncover the magical creatures and fight to keep their world safe. This is a series filled with adventure and magic. Can you imagine a life where you can't step out of the front door of your house? Imagine a life without friends. . . Locked inside your house, afraid to step out because you might get really sick. Madeline has spent 18 years of her life living in a bubble but all this changes when a new family moves next door. Will she dare to step out of the house? What will she find when she does? Read this story about love and embracing life that has been adapted into a film recently. Here is the trailer of the film adaptation. Sawako is a shy girl and misunderstood by her classmates. Her name resembles the name of a ghost in a horror story and people are scared of her. She doesn't have any friends but all this changes when she goes to high school and meets Shota, Ayane, Chizuru and Ryu. This story is a story about friendship and love. Follow Sawako and her frineds as they go through high school, experience new feelings and discover what their dreams are. Here are the library we have the first 7 volumes and we will continue to add more during the years. There is an anime adaptation of this manga. Here is a trailer from NIS America. |
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