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1) Here's to us
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Ben survived freshman year of college, but he's feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan's been acting weird for weeks. Ben's only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who's been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses. Mario's big Hollywood dreams make Ben start to dream bigger--and the choices he makes now could be the key...
2) Begin again
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Andie Rose has a plan: transfer from community college to competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and become an iconic self-help figure. Her plans go off the rails as soon as she arrives, and soon they're in rubble at her feet. Andie finds the power of her voice on the school's legendary pirate radio station--the same one her mom founded--and begins to find that the best-laid plans--and friend groups--are not necessarily the right ones....
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 15
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending the annual Greek mythology gala at Oracle College, Nancy, Bess, and George race to assist when a student falls from a balcony in the middle of her speech, an accident the sleuthing trio links to collegiate sabotage.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat have been a pair since kindergarten. But by graduation, they're no longer friends. As James prepares to head off to college, her parents announce they're getting a divorce. Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend, and becoming the person she's meant to be. Are they growing apart, or is this just a temporary low in their friendship?
Author
Language
English
Description
Snowy weather and fish fossils help bring together two Jewish college freshmen spending winter break in Washington, D.C.
"It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally, with her mom's subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani's plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces--both mortal and magical--that threatens to consume them both.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Captain Camo and Wingnut are back for their second year of college and another go at crime fighting! This time they face an inept crime family and a threat from someone close to the somewhat-seasoned super heroes. Plus, is there a new hero waiting in the wings to join the duo? Action abounds as the heroes continue to learn on the job while defending Chicago!" -- Page [4] cover.
8) We are okay
Author
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home" --
9) Heroics 101
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is it possible to have a best friend that you do not recognize? Reggie and Kirby are about to find out as they head to college together without realizing the heroic secret identities each has adopted to fight crime in Chicago. Wingnut and Captain Camo become partners without realizing that they are actually roommates as well. As a crime spree builds, the heroes find themselves facing secrets from their past as they try to stop a psychotic villain...
10) Kent State
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
xi, 132 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
May 4, 1970. Kent State University. As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why. Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in...
11) Out of breath
Author
Series
Breathing volume 3
Publisher
Amazon Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013].
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma leaves Weslyn and everyone in it behind to attend Stanford University, just as she always intended. A shell of her former self, she is not the same girl. She is broken, and the only way that she'll be whole again is through forgiveness. Emma must find a way to forgive herself and recognize her own worth before she can receive the love she deserves.
12) American panda
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
Author
Series
Kissing booth volume 2
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Ember edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elle Evans seems to have finally tamed hotter-than-hot bad boy Noah Flynn, but now they're facing a new challenge. Noah's 3,000 miles away at Harvard, which means they're officially a long-distance couple--and it's tough. After all, there's only so much texts and calls can do--and when Elle sees a post which suggests Noah's getting friendly with someone else, she's devastated.
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Take a trip through the past in these previously little-known Giant Days stories, to learn the origin of Daisy, Esther, and Susan's friendship, and see them embark on orientation, getting-to-know-you-exercises, and collisions with a secret society devoted to Black Metal, among other exploits. Collecting creator John Allison's original self-published Giant Days stories, Giant Days: Early Registration takes us back to our favorite characters' first...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads, an imprint of Feiwel and Friends and Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge, Alice has to decide if she's willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy are rounding out their first semester at university. The girls, along with their male hall-mates Ed and McGraw, find that college is more than academics and bad microwavable meals. Add some pub-hopping, hookups, breakups, and political scandal and this might just be the most eventful first semester ever." -- Page [4] cover
Author
Publisher
Boom Box!
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Their freshman year is finally coming to a close and Daisy, Susan, and Esther say goodbye to Catterick Hall forever. Literally forever. It's being bulldozed and re-purposed as a luxury dorm next semester. But as one door closes, another opens and between end of semester hookups, music festivals, and moving into their first home together, the life experiences are just getting started." -- Page [4] cover.
18) Whistleblower
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Wattpad Books edition.
Physical Desc
376, 15 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Laurel Cates has never wanted the spotlight. As a junior studying journalism at Garland University, she's perfectly content pumping out well-written fluff pieces for the school paper and focusing on the finer things in life: friends, house parties, and carne asada tacos. But when Laurel's research for an article on the school's beloved football coach uncovers a pattern of misbehavior and a trail of lies, she knows she has to expose the truth. Even...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," holiday balls, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
20) Rent a boyfriend
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn't met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your 'Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan's passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your 'Rents employee to keep a roof over his head....