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American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that hes the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey... |
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Bone Gap
Laura Ruby - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist * Printz Award Winner for Best Young Adult Book of the Year"Rubys novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary." - School Library JournalEveryone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.So when young, beautiful Roza went missing,... |
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I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Nicola Yoon, Jonathan Tropper, Emma Straub, and Rainbow Rowell "We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same... |
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Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined -- this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice. An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking:... |
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In Darkness
Nick Lake - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits... |
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Where Things Come Back
John Corey Whaley - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Title: Where Things Come Back <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: JohnCoreyWhaley <>Publisher: AtheneumBooks |
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Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi - Little, Brown, and Co.
Format: Print book
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In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper... |
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Going Bovine
Libba Bray - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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Can Cameron find what he's looking for?All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school - and life in general - with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives... |
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Stolen
Lucy Christopher - Chicken House/Scholastic
Format: Print book
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A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee.... |
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
A.S. King - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone - the kids at school,... |
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching... |
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The Monstrumologist
Richard Yancey - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Hardcover
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In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. |
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Punkzilla
Adam Rapp - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America.For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude... |
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Tales of the Madman Underground
Barnes John - Viking Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground" - a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours.... |
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Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta - HarperTeen
Format: Print book
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"What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More. Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding... |
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E Lockhart - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The hilarious and razor-sharp story of how one girl went from geek to patriarchy-smashing criminal mastermind in two short years, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud.Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:Debate Club.Her fathers "bunny rabbit."A... |
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Nation
Terry Pratchett - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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The sea has taken everything.Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne - a girl from the other side of the globe - is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave.... |
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Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once... |
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The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean - HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while nowwhich is ridiculous since hes been dead for ninety years But look at it this way In ninety years Ill be dead too and the age difference wont matter Sym is not your average teenage girl She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave... |
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Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
Elizabeth Knox - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Unknown Binding
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The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. . On St. Lazaruss... |
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One Whole and Perfect Day
Judith Clarke - Front Street Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Freakish, thought Lily. That was the word for her family. Not freaks exactly, but getting there.Sometimes Lily wishes she weren't so sensible. If she were less reliable, then perhaps she'd have more fun. As it is, her hardworking but flaky mom and her dreamy older brother count... |
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Repossessed
A. M. Jenkins - HarperTeen; 1st Edition/1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Don't call me a demon. I prefer the term Fallen Angel. Everybody deserves a vacation, right? Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the damned. So who could blame me for blowing off my duties and taking a small, unauthorized break? Besides, I've always wanted to see what... |
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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.. With photos and an extensive... |
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An Abundance of Katherines
John Green - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Michael L. Printz Honor BookLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistKatherine V thought boys were grossKatherine X just wanted to be friendsKatherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mailK-19 broke his heartWhen it comes to relationships,... |
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Surrender
Sonya Hartnett - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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SURRENDER is a mesmerizing psychological thriller from extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett.I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel... |
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I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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By the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief, this is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists, and love. Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey,... |
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John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
Elizabeth Partridge - Viking Juvenile; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording,... |
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How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff - Wendy Lamb Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Every war has turning points and every person tooFifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins shes never met three boys near her age and their little sister Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives The next day bombs go off as London... |
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Airborn
Kenneth Oppel
Format: Print book
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Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked... |
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Chanda's Secrets
Allan Stratton - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable novel about family, loyalty and survival in sub-Saharan Africa -- now a major motion picture. Chanda's Secrets was first published in 2004 to extraordinary international acclaim. It won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in YA Literature, was an ALA Best... |
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Gary David Schmidt - Clarion books
Format: Print book
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It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded... |
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The First Part Last
Angela Johnson - Simon Pulse
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He's going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their lives are about to change forever. Instead of spending time with friends, they'll be spending... |
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A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly - HMH Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over... |
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Fat Kid Rules the World
K L Going - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Troy Billings at 6'1", 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform seriously contemplating suicide when he meets Curt MacCrae -a sage-like, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a drop-out legend at Troy's school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan."I... |
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
Carolyn Mackler - Candlewick; First U.S. Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An overweight teen is sure that she’s the weakest link in her high-powered family - until her handsome, athletic, star-student brother has a shocking fall from grace.Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex. She lives on the Web,... |
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Postcards from No Man's Land
Aidan Chambers - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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By turns playful and wrenching, thrilling and meditative, this extraordinary novel, told in dual narratives, takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery-the discovery of family secrets, of sex, of art, and of oneself in a foreign city or in the midst of war. Seventeen-year-old... |
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The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Format: Hardcover
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In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States--Resume de l'editeur. |
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Hole in My Life
Jack Gantos - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin... |
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A Step from Heaven
Na An - Front Street
Format: Book
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When she is five, Young Ju Park and her family move from Korea to California. During the flight, they climb so far into the sky she concludes they are on their way to Heaven, that Heaven must be in America. Heaven is also where her grandfather is. When she learns the distinction, she is so disappointed... |
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The Ropemaker
Peter Dickinson - Delacorte Press
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Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest's power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious... |
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True Believer (Make Lemonade Trilogy)
Virginia Euwer Wolff - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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We have a multitude of obstacles to overcome here. We'll begin. When LaVaughn was little, the obstacles in her life didn't seem so bad. If she had a fight with Myrtle or Annie, it would never last long. If she was mad at her mother, they made up by bedtime. School was simple.... |
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Many Stones
Carolyn Coman - Front Street
Format: Print book
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Sixteen-year-old Berry Morgan lives with her mother in Rockville, Maryland, where her mother works as a reading tutor. Berry's father, a lobbyist, lives in San Francisco with his girlfriend. He comes in and out of Berry's life unpredictably. A year and a half ago, he showed up at her school... |
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The Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Chris Creed grew up as the class freakthe bullies punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. And it tore the town apart. Sixteen-year-old Torey Adamss search for answers opens his eyes to the lies, the pain, and the need to blame someone... |
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Louise Rennison - HarperTempest
Format: Paperback
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Angus:My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad.Thongs:Stupid underwear. What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell.Full-Frontal Snogging:Kissing with all the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth,... |
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Stuck in Neutral
Terry Trueman - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book
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Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle--except no one knows it, least of all his father. His life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. Not even those who love him best have any idea what he is truly like. In this extraordinary and powerful first novel, the reader learns... |
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Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Format: Paperback
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. |
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Skellig
David Almond - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel is a captivating modern classic.Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into... |
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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The first ten lies they tell you in high school."Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast,... |
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Hard Love
Ellen Wittlinger - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather"... |
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