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Category Archives: family
In Her Skin by Kim Savage
What It’s About: Sixteen-year-old con artist Jo Chastain is about to take on the biggest scam of her life: impersonating a missing girl. Life on the streets of Boston these past few years hasn’t been easy, and Jo is hoping … Continue reading
The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
Check out The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo at the Smith Public Library today!
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
Posted in family, LGBTQIA, realistic fiction, Steph, teen pregnancy
Tagged Far From the Tree, Robin Benway, Smith Public Library, Wylie TX
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Anna’s Best of 2017!
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis About- Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged … Continue reading
Posted in #metoo, Anna, Best of 2017, contemporary, family, female protagonist, female writers, Friendship, graphic novel, humor, rape culture
Tagged A Mango Shaped Space, Bad Machinery, Best of 2017, John Allison, Mindy McGinnis, Smith Public Library, The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor, The Female of the Species, Wendy Mass, Wylie TX, YA Lit
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Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard
Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard About: Set in Depression Era Virginia, fourteen year old Amelia’s mother dies leaving her in charge of a struggling gas station and her two younger siblings. With Harvey Blevins, owner of the Standard Oil monopoly, … Continue reading
Posted in Audrey, character driven, family, grief, historical fiction
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The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters About: A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father’s death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired … Continue reading
Posted in family, heroine, historical fiction, murder, mystery, Ofilia, supernatural, young adult
Tagged Cat Winters, The Steep and Thorny Way
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Splintered by A.G. Howard
Splintered by A.G. Howard About: A descendant of the inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests … Continue reading
Posted in Fairy retelling, family, Fantasy, female protagonist, Lauren, young adult
Tagged A.G. Howard, Smith Public Library, Splintered, SPLTeenmachine, Wylie TX
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