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Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe travel to Philadelphia where they intend to prevent an attack on an extreme sports contest called the Big Air Games.
2) Fever, 1793
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Description
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Description
New from Eric Smith comes a delightful YA rom-com about two teens caught in the middle of their families' orchestrated rivalry between their Philly cheesesteak food trucks. All's fair in love and (food truck) war. Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school...
Author
Series
Riley Reynolds volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Language
English
Description
Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends are all in for Dress Like Your Favorite Character Day, but when everyone at school asks Riley for costume advice, they discover that the key to being a costume visionary is active listening and a big imagination.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 123
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar children are on an exciting show in which a camera crew follows them around Philadelphia as they search for clues, but someone is giving them the wrong directions.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, this middle-grade historical novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy and his best friend as they attempt to stop a wall from being built at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, that would block the view of the baseball field from their rooftops. In 1930s Philadelphia, twelve-year-old Jimmy Frank and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia...
10) Mixed doubles
Author
Series
Benchwarmers volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
11) Thee, Hannah!
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & company inc
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After she is injured in a gang shooting, seventeen-year-old Alexis Duncan's dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish, but, encouraged by new student Aamani Chakrabarti, Alexis shifts her focus to the school's STEM quiz bowl team, a group of self-professed nerds seeking their own futures outside of West Philly.
14) The Philly fake
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Cousins Mike and Kate must help the Philadelphia Phillies' mascot, the Phillie Phanatic, clear his name after the team's bats begin to suspiciously break during games.
15) Night magic
Author
Series
Nightstruck volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jenna Black returns to the quarantined city of Philadelphia, where an unsuspecting seventeen-year-old has unknowingly unleashed a dark power that transforms the city into a monstrous hellscape"--Amazon.com.
16) Same difference
Author
Language
English
Description
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.
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