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A summer of Kings
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Han Nolan |
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to l… |
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The Spellman files
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Lisa Lutz |
Izzy Spellman launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. |
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Begging for change
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Sharon G. Flake |
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways. |
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Half World
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Hiromi Goto |
"Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Melanie is just bare… |
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In Spite of Killer Bees
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Julie Johnston |
"When three sisters arrive at a village to collect their grandfather's fortune, they are met with suspicion, but no money. A brillant novel about love, family and self-discovery" Cf. Our choice, 2002. |
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Balyet
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Patricia Wrightson |
Despite the precautions of the old aborigine woman she calls Granny, fourteen-year-old Jo falls under the spell of a secret thing in the Australian hills, a girl endlessly alive and crying for the de… |
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When No One Was Looking
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Rosemary Wells |
A tragic chain of events threatens a 14-year-old girl's promising tennis career |
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Cecilia's year
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Susan Gonzales Abraham |
Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's place threaten her dreams. |
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Roots and wings
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Many Ly |
GRACE'S GRANDMOTHER HAS died, and she and her mother must travel back to the Cambodian community to give her a proper Cambodian funeral. But Grace wants to use the trip to solve a few mysteries, like… |
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The Spellman Files
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Lisa Lutz |
The first novel of a comic mystery series.
Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinki… |
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