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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Eight seconds Eight seconds Jean Ferris,Jean Ferris Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay. OL11703898W
Torn thread Torn thread Anne Isaacs In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war. OL15857011W
Hotel du Lac Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. S… OL166437W
Stonewords Stonewords Pam Conrad Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event. OL2006659W
Boy Meets Boy Boy Meets Boy David Levithan This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also t… OL265128W
No Laughter Here No Laughter Here Rita Williams-Garcia Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a … OL279255W
Stealing freedom Stealing freedom Elisa Lynn Carbone Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation s… OL465381W
Looking for Bobowicz Looking for Bobowicz Daniel Manus Pinkwater Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, a boy convinces his two new friends to help him track down the mysterious phantom who stole his bicycle, as well as Arthur Bobowicz, owner of a giant chicken that … OL84069W