TWEENS AND TEENS Starting school can be nerve-wracking, even if you’ve done it nearly a dozen times. What challenges await these high schoolers? Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger In an alternate England of 1851, spirited 14-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli In this story about the perils of populari- ty, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. Peanut by Ayun Halliday Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spi- rals out of control in this graphic novel.
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