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Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, th… |
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Twenty boy summer
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Sarah Ockler |
"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"Accordin… |
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Love, Aubrey
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Suzanne M. LaFleur |
"I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family. From now on it would just be me and Sammy--the two of us, and no one else."A tragic accident has turned eleven-year-old… |
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Losing Faith
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Denise Jaden |
In this lyrical, emotionally intense debut, a teenager encounters more questions than closure while mourning the death of her sister. |
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On the Pecos Trail
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Patrick Dearen |
Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings finds the adventure, hard work, and camaraderie he experiences when he joins his uncle and cousin on a cattle drive are just what he needs to cope with his grief over hi… |
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Rough waters
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S. L. Rottman |
After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white-water rafting business. |
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The wishing tree
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Roseanne Thong |
Ming's wishes at the tree on Lunar New Year with his grandmother always seemed to come true, but one year the tree does not help, and he alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the… |
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The Haunted (The Hollow, #2)
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Jessica Verday |
**An impossible truth. An impossible love.**
After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with--the boy who must not exist, cannot exist, because she kn… |
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A hole in the world
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Sid Hite |
Fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford experiences an eye-opening and transformative summer living and working on the central Virginia farm belonging to a distant relative, where everyone seems to be haun… |
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Season of secrets
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Sally Nicholls |
Sent by their father to live in the country with their grandparents after the sudden death of their mother, Molly's older sister Hannah expresses her grief in a raging rebellion while imaginative Mol… |
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The Fallen
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Paul Langan |
This sequel to Brothers in Arms picks up the story of Martin Luna as he struggles to rebuild his life after the death of his little brother. In trouble at Bluford High School for fighting, Martin fac… |
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Sign language
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Amy Ackley |
Teenaged Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up. |
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Displacement
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Thalia Chaltas |
Home is supposed to be a place you belong. It's supposed to be parents who are there and siblings who bug you and a life that feels comfortable. It's not supposed to be an absentee mother or a drowne… |
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Leo and the Lesser Lion
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Sandra Forrester |
In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, lived for some special purpose. |
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Zombie Tag
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Hannah Moskowitz |
In the months since Wil Lowenstein's older brother Graham died, Wil has spent most of his time playing a game he invented but when he finds a way to bring Graham and others back from the dead, fighti… |
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Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
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Morgan Matson |
After her father’s sudden death, Amy’s mom has decided to start anew—in Connecticut, just before the start of senior year. And she’s decided that it’ll be Amy’s job to get the car from California to … |
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Lovely, dark and deep
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Amy McNamara |
In the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, high school senior Wren retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with th… |
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Dangerous neighbors
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Beth Kephart |
Set against the backdrop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Katherine cannot forgive herself when her beloved twin sister dies, and she feels that her only course of action is to foll… |
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Wildlife
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Fiona Wood |
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they mu… |
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Amy & Roger's epic detour
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Morgan Matson |
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forc… |
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