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Silver bells Silver bells Luanne Rice Every year on the first day of December, Christopher Byrne traveled from his farm in Nova Scotia to sell his Christmas trees on the streets of Manhattan. But this year there'd be no cheer for the wid… OL106210W
Wonder When You'll Miss Me Wonder When You'll Miss Me Amanda Davis "Follow sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle in this audacious and darkly funny tale as she moves through the difficult journey from the schoolyard to the harlequin world of the circus. At fifteen, Faith wa… OL121049W
H-BOMB GIRL H-BOMB GIRL Stephen Baxter In Cuba nuclear tensions are at breaking point. The end of the whole world could be just days away. At the heart of it all is Laura Mann. She's on the run, hunted by strange forces fighting over the … OL12799235W
Numbers Numbers Rachel Ward,Rachel Ward Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a … OL13761031W
Our Lady of the Forest Our Lady of the Forest David Guterson From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for… OL14858910W
Runaways Runaways Keith Elliot Greenberg Discusses why some young people run away from troubled homes and what can happen to them and tells the stories of several teenagers who found help at Noah's Ark, a shelter run by Sister Dolores Garta… OL14919477W
Pride & joy Pride & joy Brian K. Vaughan Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly, and Nico, a group of teenswhose lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When these six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered… OL15149710W
Fouling Out Fouling Out Gregory Walters Craig and Tom have been friends since second grade, but that was five years ago and Craig is getting sick of Tom’s out-of-bounds behavior. When Craig begins to realize that he may have more potential… OL15173649W
The Girl in the Backseat The Girl in the Backseat Norma M. Charles The novel opens with Toby, a young girl in a Bountiful-style community, being caught secretly reading at night. The community leaders decide that she must be married at once to "the prophet," an olde… OL15370733W
Sub Rosa Sub Rosa Amber Dawn In this stunning, Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision. Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is a teenaged r… OL15592836W
Welcome to Harmony Welcome to Harmony Jodi Thomas "Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she move… OL15920178W
Trial by Fire Trial by Fire Jennifer Lynn Barnes Bryn, the new alpha of her werewolf pack, must deal with an opposing pack led by her friend when a runaway begs her for help and protection from abuse. OL15920534W
Miles from nowhere Miles from nowhere Nami Mun Fleeing her 1980s Bronx family home in the wake of her unfaithful father's abandonment and her mother's mental illness, Korean teen Joon struggles through an adolescence marked by homeless shelters, … OL16071674W
Blink and Caution Blink and Caution Tim Wynne-Jones Blink, man, what were you thinking? Sneaking into the hotel for a hot breakfast? Hot scraps of someone else's breakfast, really. Couldn't you just feel that it was a wrong place/wrong time scenario? … OL16482249W
The Princess Trap (Scandia #2) The Princess Trap (Scandia #2) Kirsten Boie The PLOT thickens! Already fed up with her restrictive new life as a PRINCESS, Jenna runs away (with a boy!) from boarding school, only to get caught up in a TRAP to overthrow her uncle, the king! … OL16574337W
Forbidden Fruit (A Corinna Chapman Mystery # 5) Forbidden Fruit (A Corinna Chapman Mystery # 5) Kerry Greenwood Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is a summer festival. Corinna is a … OL17431306W
Trailing Tennessee Trailing Tennessee Cory Wheeler Mimms After his father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Eli Sutton begins hiking the Appalachian Trail, a dangerous trek on which he is pursued by park rangers and spirits, to fulfill his dream of reachin… OL17872562W
The museum of intangible things The museum of intangible things Wendy Wunder Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that… OL19977256W
Casebook of a private (cat's) eye Casebook of a private (cat's) eye Mary Stolz Can feline detective Eileen O'Kelly crack the case that has left the Boston police baffled and wringing their paws? OL2040501W
The runaway schoolgirl The runaway schoolgirl Davina Williams "In September 2012, mother of five Davina Williams found two policemen on her doorstep. Her daughter "Gemma," fifteen, had been abducted by her thirty-year-old teacher Jeremy Forrest. It was the star… OL24296363W
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