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What's In a Name?

Who are these titular characters? You'll have to read these books to learn about the characters whose names they bear. WH 3/23

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  • Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on…
    Book, 2020New York : Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2020.
  • Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit…
    Book, 2022New York : Union Square & Co., [2022]
  • Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with…
    Book, 2020Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2020.
  • Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend,…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York : First Second, 2019.
  • From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola…
    Book, 2023New York : Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
  • Creating an app that can predict a person's future with 93% accuracy, Ro Deveraux garners the attention of tech investors when it goes viral and is thrust into a fake dating scenario with her ex-best friend, who is her projected soul mate.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
  • Growing up in rural Washington as the only out gay kid means Jay is constantly bombarded with reminders that everyone around him can hook up and have relationships, but his list of love-related to-do's -- his own gay agenda -- is indefinitely,…
    Book, 2021New York ; Harperteen , [2021]
  • Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
  • Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
    Book, 2021New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021.
  • When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2021]
  • Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's…
    Book, New York : HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
  • Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
  • With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
  • Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
  • High school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast to investigate an unsolved murder in their hometown, and after making a startling discovery, they accuse a potentially innocent man of murder on one of their episodes.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023.
  • My Dear Henry

    a Jekyll & Hyde Remix

    Bayron, Kalynn,
    In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger.
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023.
  • Edward is the King of England. He's also dying, which is inconvenient, as he's only sixteen and he'd rather be planning his first kiss than who will inherit his crown. Jane, Edward's cousin, is far more interested in books than romance.…
    Book, 2016New York : HarperTeen, an imprint HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
  • Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.
    Book, 1995New York : HarperCollins, 1995.
  • Clariel

    the Lost Abhorsen

    Nix, Garth
    The story of how Clariel became a Free Magic Sorcerer, set 600 years before the birth of Sabriel.
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
  • This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]