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"There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school--you can't fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School's queen bee, violates the school's dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better...
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Inkyard Press
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[2020]
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English
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"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
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Soho Teen, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc
Publication Date
[2021]
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English
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All her life Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. This summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it is time for Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away. Furious at his betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle,...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
2019.
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Español
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After María Luisa O'Neill-Morales moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago, she violates her school's dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurns the school's most popular girl to start a band with like-minded friends.
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Super Happy Party Bears volume 5
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Imprint
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2017.
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English
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"Flying Blind. The bat-only punk rock band. Coming to the Grumpy Woods. The Super Happy Party Bears love rock 'n' roll! The other Grumpy Woods residents do not. To them, this "music" sounds like BOOM! BOOM! REEN-REEN-WAAAHHHHH! And the band's nighttime shows are keeping everyone awake! When the bears join the band and get groovin', the rest of the Grumpy Woods townscritters go undercover to wreak havoc at the show. Will the bears rock the party or...
7) Born to rock
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English
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High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
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Amulet Books
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2015.
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English
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In 1983, a band led by a David Bowie lookalike prepares to compete in a battle of the bands at a possibly evil brewery, and must also cope with the fact that bass player Evan is getting sicker and sicker, much like his best friend Noah's abusive father did before his death several years earlier.
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Wydawnictwo Zielona Sowa
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2019.
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Polish
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Nie ma żadnych dróg na skróty, aby przetrwać pierwszy dzień w nowej szkole. I jeśli coś pójdzie nie tak, to nie naprawi się tego taśmą klejącą, tak jak można to zrobić z trampkami. W pierwszym dniu dwunastoletnia Malú (María Luisa, jeśli chcesz ją zdenerwować) nieumyślnie wkurza królową szkoły, narusza szkolny kodeks swoim punkrockowym wyglądem i zawodzi mamę. Jej tata, który żyje teraz tysiąc mil dalej, mówi, że wszystko...