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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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Trance
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Linda C. Gerber |
Ashlyn was unable to use her visions of the future to save her mother's life, but as she begins to understand and control them somewhat, she realizes that love interest Jake is the subject of her mos… |
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Do you hear me, Mr. Lincoln?
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Judith Caseley |
Grieving for her beloved father who recently died, thirteen-year-old Sierra remembers special moments in their lives, including their interest in the life of Abraham Lincoln. |
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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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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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Die for me
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Amy Plum |
After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate find… |
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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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What comes after
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Steve Watkins |
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, … |
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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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Silhouetted by the blue
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Traci L. Jones |
After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself an… |
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Waiting
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Carol Lynch Williams |
As the tragic death of her older brother devastates the family, teenaged London struggles to find redemption and finds herself torn between her brother's best friend and a handsome new boy in town. |
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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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Wonderland
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Joanna Nadin |
Jude must get away. She has to ace her exams and an audition at a prestigious drama school or she'll never escape her small town life and follow her dream of becoming an actor. But then her best frie… |
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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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Looking for Red
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Angela Johnson |
A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod. |
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Ketchup clouds
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Annabel Pitcher |
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her fam… |
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Wild life
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Cynthia C. DeFelice |
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in a small town in North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing t… |
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The other side of blue
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Valerie O. Patterson |
The summer after her father's drowning, Cyan and her mother, a painter, return to the house they stay at every summer, but Cyan blames her mother and spends her time trying to find out what really ha… |
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