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Breakout
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Paul Fleischman |
A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time fo… |
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The tallest of smalls
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Max Lucado |
A rhyming story about how Jesus can lift up even those who feel small and worthless. |
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Anya's ghost
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Vera Brosgol |
Anya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in her body and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickly learns there are drawbacks to having a ghost fo… |
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I like myself!
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Karen Beaumont |
In rhyming text, a little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance. |
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Loss
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Jackie Morse Kessler |
A lifetime of being bullied has left fifteen-year-old Billy angry and frightened, but when he is tricked into becoming Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the power to inflic… |
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The list
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Siobhan Vivian |
Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by… |
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Zero
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Tom Leveen |
After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with he… |
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My Fair Godmother (My Fair Godmother #1)
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Janette Rallison |
High school sophomore Savannah wants to find the perfect prom date after her boyfriend breaks up with her to date her older sister, but when a godmother who is only fair becomes involved, Savannah fi… |
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Clara Humble
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Anna Humphrey |
Clara and Bradley s friendship is put to the test when they compete on a game show. |
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Franchise
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Patrick Jones |
"Latrell Baker's scientific approach to football - watching football - has finally paid off. Harmon Holt heard about the algorithm he developed for determining best defensive play, and now Latrell's … |
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Away we go
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Emil Ostrovski |
Westing is not your typical school. For starters, you have to have one very important quality in order to be admitted you have to be dying. Every student at Westing has been diagnosed with PPV, or th… |
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Markus and Diana
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Klaus Hagerup |
A moment of false bravado and some imaginative letters allow shy, anxiety-ridden, thirteen-year-old Markus to connect with a Hollywood star, but when she returns home to Norway she wants to meet the … |
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Cannonball
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Josh Morgan,Sacha Cotter |
As one boy searches for the secret to executing the perfect cannonball, it's only by listening to his own voice that he finds his unique style and pulls off a truly awe-inspiring CANNONBALL.
A cel… |
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Sugar
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Deirdre Riordan Hall |
Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as her mama, who is so big she hasn't gotten out of bed in months. When Sugar meets Even (not Evan; hi… |
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What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
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Sonya Sones |
Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds a… |
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The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
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Paula Danziger |
Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she despairs of ever being thin, and she is certain she'll never have a date. Life at home isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around.
Th… |
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I smell like ham
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Hicks, Betty. |
Nick tries to maintain his sense of integrity as he works to succeed on the school basketball team, adjust to his new stepmother and little "dorky" stepbrother, and deal with peer pressure from his f… |
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Hero Type
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Barry Lyga |
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being … |
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Blue plate special
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Michelle D. Kwasney |
*Doomed loves, failed families, nixed dreams someone else's leftovers are heaped on our plates the day we come into this world.*
Big Macs and pop tunes mask the emptiness as Madeline watches her m… |
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Artichoke's heart
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Suzanne Supplee |
Blubber meets Steel Magnolias in this funny and honest story about body image and family. Rosemary Goode is smart and funny and loyal and the best eyebrow waxer in Spring Hill, Tennessee. But only on… |
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