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REALISTIC FICTION
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Bhai For Now by Maleeha Siddiqui
Ashar is busy with hockey and trying to get into good schools. Shaheer is trying to adjust to yet another move and trying to find new friends, again. The two boys are nothing alike, except they look identical. They soon discover that they are twins, separated as babies, and devise a plan to get to know the parents they have been separated from. (intermediate) |
Freestyle by Gale Galligan
Cory's dance team is praticing hard for a competition, but his parents are more worried about his grades. At first he's resistant to the tutor they hire, his nerdy lab partner. But her amazing yo-yo skills intrigue him and soon he's spending more time with her than his old friends. How will this affect the dance team's chances of working smoothly together? (graphic novel) (beginning) |
Maybe He Just Likes You
by Barbara Dee At first when some of the boys in her seventh grade class crash the playground birthday celebration for a friend, and give her a hug, Mila thinks nothing of it. Soon, there's another hug, and a smirk, comments on the bus . . . it all feels weird. Her friend says they're just flirting. But it doesn't feel like flirting and soon she just wants to hide, even in band, her favorite subject. (intermediate) |
The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls by James BIrd
Benny fills up his empty life by stealing stuff. When he goes up before a tough judge, his mom proposes he go to a "boot camp" style intervention with their extended family on an Ojibwe reservation. In addition to hanging out with his dad, who he barely knows, his rehabilitation seems to be up to the chief's daughter, who always wears a mask. Can this second chance turn his life around? (intermediate) |
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
When Omar gets the opportunity to go to school, he is excited. He knows an education could enable him and his younger brother to get out of the refugee camp where they've spent most of their lives. But going to school also means leaving his brother behind to fend for himself every day. (graphic novel) (beginning) |
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