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The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
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2022.
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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2019.
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"When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. That would be horrors enough, but there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind. Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself. Alone...
5) Best wishes
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Best wishes volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After her best friend ditches her, fifth-grader Becca, feeling devastated and alone, yearns for people to like her, so when a magical bracelet grants her wish to have loads of friends, she soon discovers having a dream come true is not as simple as it seems.
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While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
7) Secrets
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2022.
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English
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In the second installment in a new series from Fern Michaels, a brother and sister who own an antique shop/cafe, find themselves with life or death information and realize they have no one to turn to but themselves.
When an old steamer check from an anonymous source arrives at Cullen and Luna Bodman's restoration shop and café, it is fascinating in its own right. But inside, Cullen discovers a locked diary accompanied by a letter, asking for the...
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While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo--a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color--and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...
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Penny draws volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Fifth grader Penny, who doodles to cope with anxiety, worries that her best friend is drifting away.
Why does the cubby room always smell like farts? Who etched the words "I Am Bug Man" inside my desk? Why is Mom suddenly acting like she has a secret? Nobody said starting fifth grade would be easy, and Penny Lowry's anxiety means a million questions are always spinning through her thoughts. Luckily she's got a lot to look forward to, like her favorite...
11) The storyteller
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Seventeen-year-old Jess Morgan discovers her great-great-aunt's diaries, leading her on a quest to uncover whether Aunt Anna was actually a Romanov princess. Includes author's note.
Jess Morgan is growing tired of living her life to please everyone else. When she discovers her late aunt's diaries, Jess learns she's not the only one struggling to hide who she really is. But was her aunt Anna truly the Romanov princess Anastasia? Or is this some elaborate...
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"Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep everyone at school from learning the truth--that she's there on scholarship in exchange for her Dad working as the school's exterminator. The last thing Nikki needs is having her friends and--worst case scenario-- her crush, Brandon, associating her with the humongous roach on top of her Dad's van! Now it looks like her secret could be about to come out, and Nikki's willing to go to any zany...
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Dork diaries volume 2
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
14) Loop
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Charco Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Part diary, part fable, Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás to return from a trip to Spain. They met when she was recovering from an accident and he had just lost his mother. Soon after that, they were living together. She waits for him as a sort of contemporary Penelope who, instead of knitting only to then un-knit, she writes and erases her thoughts in a notebook: Proust, a dwarf, a...
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"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
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Penny draws volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Penny and her friends find an old map that takes them on a search through their town for hidden treasure"--
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Series
Dork diaries volume 14
Publisher
Aladdin, An imprint of Simon & schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?!" --
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Publisher
RBA Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Greg, atrapado en casa con su familia durante las vacaciones debido a una tormenta de nieve, sufre claustrofobia y le preocupa no poder capear la tormenta.
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Magination Presss, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After her parents divorce, Mia misses giggling with both parents, seeing her cat and dog snuggle together, and many other things, but Grandpa gives her a journal that helps her feel better.
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