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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
Nada	Carmen Laforet	Nada es la primera novela de la escritora barcelonesa Carmen Laforet y una de las obras literarias más importantes de la España del siglo XX. Se trata de una obra existencialista que representa el …	OL1315149W
Voices	Ursula K. Le Guin	Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.	OL15056614W
Hide and Seek	Katy Grant	After a summer cooped up in his family's store selling bait, tackle, and soft drinks to tourists, fourteen-year-old Chase finally gets a chance to go on his first solo geocaching adventure. Using …	OL15166772W
It's Not Summer Without You	Jenny Han	Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.	OL15640090W
No More Dragons	Rie Charles	How do you turn an upside-down life right-side up? Thirteen-year-old Alex is afraid, afraid of his dad, afraid of kids at school, worried about his sick brother and, most of all, angry at himself for…	OL15728807W
Absolute brightness	James Lecesne	In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her house and soon goes missing.	OL15841333W
GraceLand	Christopher Abani	This novel is set in Maroko, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies and a harsh urban exis…	OL15858690W
How huge the night	Heather Munn	In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they…	OL15901304W
Once upon a river	Bonnie Jo Campbell	After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerou…	OL15932685W
Girlchild	Tupelo Hassman	Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.	OL16215467W
Zombie	J. R. Angelella	Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker, facing his first year of Catholic high school and major family issues, sees the code he lives by, gleaned from zombie movies, put to the test as he tries to set right…	OL16557712W
Fish in the sky	Friðrik Erlingsson	Josh Stephenson's thirteenth year starts with a baffling sequence of events, including an odd gift from his estranged father, the arrival of his flirty seventeen-year-old female cousin, locker-room t…	OL16652619W
The Interestings	Meg Wolitzer	The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The kind of creativity that is re…	OL16806032W
色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年	村上春樹	Tsukuru Tazaki reexamines his simple life as he searches for his closest high school friends to discover why he was suddenly ostracized from their group. "Cuando Tsukuru Tazakiera adolescente, se …	OL16810121W
Now I'll Tell You Everything	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Book 25 of the Alice series. This book covers Alice's life from college to age 60.	OL17198676W
Petit pays	Gaël Faye	In Burundi in 1992, ten-year-old Gabriel enjoys carefree days with his friends, but his idyllic existence and his innocence come to a brutal end when Burundi and neighboring Rwanda are hit by civil w…	OL17841200W
Empire of the Saviours	A. J. Dalton	In the empire of the saviours, the people are forced to live in fortified towns. Their walls are guarded by an army of Heroes, whose task is to keep marauding pagans out as much as it is to keep the …	OL17882831W
When mockingbirds sing	Billy Coffey	"Leah is a child from Away, isolated from her peers because of her stutter. But then she begins painting scenes that are epic in scope, brilliant in detail, and suffused with rich, prophetic imagery.…	OL17886216W
The Wall	William Sutcliffe	Joshua kicks his football into a building site and discovers a secret tunnel. It leads through pitch darkness under the Wall and into forbidden territory, where a boy like him shouldn't stray. When J…	OL18147486W