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Jake the fake volume 1
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Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
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Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
Arab American Heritage Month (Youth)
Arab American Heritage Month for kids
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Fifth-grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend Allie Liu are hoping to go to the Magnet Academy for their middle school years, instead of Harbortown Elementary/Middle School; but when a new girl Dana Denver starts tormenting Farah and her younger brother, Samir, she decides she can not leave Samir to face the bully alone, especially since the adults and even Allie do not seem to be taking the matter seriously--so Farah comes up with a plan, one which...
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
Filipino Heritage Month 2022 (October - Kids)
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
Filipino Heritage Month 2022 (October - Kids)
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Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
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Millicent Min series volume 1
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English
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In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
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My weird school volume 16
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English
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It's Poetry Month and Ms. Coco, who runs the gifted and talented program, is poetry crazy! She cries when she sees a sunset! She thinks boys should have feelings! She talks in rhyme! All the time! Will A.J.'s life ever be normal again?
9) Lizzie!
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A bright, curious girl in a wheelchair who enjoys visiting a petting zoo in her Florida town uncovers a mystery surrounding a shack full of screeching monkeys.
10) Good enough
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A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
13) Simulated
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Calculated volume second
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English
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"With an overprotective father on her back and Kai on the other side of the world, Jo accepts an offer from Prodigy Stealth Solutions (PSS), who may have found a way to get her [gift] back. Using a newly developed technology, PSS tries a simulation process on Jo to restore her abilities, but during the attempt, PSS is hacked and a blacklist file containing some of PSS's most sensitive secrets is stolen. Meanwhile, a mysterious caller who seems to...
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Farah rocks volume 4
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English
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Farah's little brother is in the hospital with a heart problem that needs surgery, so her parents send sixth-grader Farah off to stay with her grandmother in a retirement condo in Florida; Sitti Fayrouz does not speak much English, has a lot of rules, and does not understand Farah's interest in geology, so Farah is not happy with the move--but despite being the only child in the community, Farah finds that the people are nice, and despite getting...
16) Loveboat forever
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Loveboat volume 3
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English
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In desperate need of a new image, seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong attends Chien Tan, the Taipei summer program, but instead enters an extravagant world where there's more awaiting her than she ever could've imagined--like a romantic entanglement with a mysterious suitor.
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The Devils' Pass High School is hosting a quiz contest, which sounds perfect to Evie Allen, who is acknowledged as the smartest kid in eighth grade, (and the youngest, though not the most popular)--but in Devils' Pass, Minnesota, nothing is quite what it seems, and when it turns out that the contest is being run by zombies looking for smart brains it becomes a case for the young monster hunters of the Loyal Order of Helga, AKA Evie and her friends....
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Baby Brains volume 2
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English
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A musically gifted baby is invited to play the electric guitar at a star-studded rock concert.
20) Solving Zoe
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English
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Zoe's sixth-grade year at a Brooklyn school for gifted students is marked by changing relationships with her fellow students and teachers, recognition of her talent for cryptography, and a greater awareness of her passion.
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