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The Last Child
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John Hart |
> Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alys… |
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Dark Angel
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V. C. Andrews |
**At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for... free from the scorn and contempt of her past!**
In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderf… |
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Also known as Harper
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Ann Haywood Leal |
Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn’t surprising, seeing as how she’s named after her mama’s favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up a… |
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Little black lies
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Tish Cohen |
Starting her junior year at an ultra-elite Boston school, sixteen-year-old Sara, hoping to join the popular crowd, hides that her father not only is the school janitor, but also has obsessive-compuls… |
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All families are psychotic
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Douglas Coupland |
"It is the year 2001 and the Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Agains… |
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Side effects
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Amy Goldman Koss |
Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives. |
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House Rules
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Rachel Sontag |
At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal figh… |
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While They Slept
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Kathryn Harrison |
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the … |
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Her last death
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Susanna Sonnenberg |
Sonnenberg's memoir illuminates her resolve to forge her independence, to become a woman capable of trust and to be a good mother to her own children after being raised by a mother who was a compulsi… |
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The year of the gopher
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
In his senior year of high school, seventeen-year-old George begins to seriously question his parents' plans and assumptions about his future and decides to try to find his own way. |
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Lesson Learned
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Earl Sewell |
Whoever said "family comes first" never met Keysha's mom, Justine. Fresh out of jail, Justine wants to reconnect with her daughter-despite abandoning her to a father she hardly knew. Keysha is sure J… |
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The year of the bomb
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Ronald Kidd |
In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent deter… |
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More than enough
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Fulton, John |
"After a gang of neighborhood boys attack Steven and his sister, Jenny, the Parkers are doing very well on the resulting settlement money. The family's dream of success in their new home of Salt Lake… |
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What Momma left me
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Renée Watson |
After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms… |
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Love will keep us together
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Anne Dayton |
As Riley McGee faces an extremely difficult and confusing senior year of high school, the Miracle Girls help her to hold herself together even as they seek a way for the four of them to stay together… |
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Pretty bad things
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C. J. Skuse |
When they were six years old, twins Beau and Paisley were famous for surviving on their own after their mother died of a drug overdose, and now, at sixteen, they escape from their abusive grandmother… |
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Best foot forward
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Joan Bauer |
In this sequel to the beloved Rules of the Road, Jenna Boller is dripping with newfound maturity after her life-altering summer on the road. She has a job she loves at Gladstone Shoes, a best friend … |
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Miracle's Boys
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Jacqueline Woodson |
Lafayette would do anything to have things back the way they used to be—back before their parents died and back before his brother Charlie changed so much. But things have changed and all he can do n… |
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Because I am furniture
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Thalia Chaltas |
Anke’s father is abusive to her brother and sister. But not to her. Because, to him, she is like furniture— not even worthy of the worst kind of attention. Then Anke makes the school volleyball team.… |
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Father of the rain
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Lily King |
"Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His d… |
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