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When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new world that she has no skill in navigating. This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a girl's awakening to the racial insularity...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
317 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets and heartache, and it's a good...
Author
Publisher
Little Lit Library
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
36 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows a young girl named Lilly as she enjoys different activities during each season of the year, from dancing in the park in the spring to throwing snowballs in the winter.
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 250L
Physical Desc
170 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own. At first, it's a lot of boredom, bad TV and guitar practice. Things look up when Bina finds an un-likely companion in Austin's older sister, Charlie--they like the same music, and...
Author
Publisher
Retrofit Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her first full-length graphic memoir, Summer Pierre takes us on a journey through the soundtracks that shaped her. Through mix tapes, boyfriends, late nights in Boston folk clubs, and ill-fated cross-country road trips, Pierre weaves a moving meditation on music, memory, and identity."
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017-
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Science-loving Delia Bean is expecting to have a pretty boring summer vacation, but when her Uncle Lyndon offers her an internship in his Earth Time Museum, everything begins to look better.
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 2
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First graphic novel edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
247 pages, 1 unnumbered page : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longing to be part of the summer stock performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Jacky Hart must discover if juggling responsibilities is one of her many talents.
10) Factory summers
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery"--
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