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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Squarehead	Harriet Ziefert	George only likes things that are square like himself until a dream reminds him of how nice round can be.	OL14969325W
Muchacho	LouAnne Johnson	An inspiring YA debut from the author of Dangerous Minds.Eddie Corazon is angry. He's also very smart. But he's working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he…	OL15068482W
Boy girl boy	Ronald Koertge	Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.	OL15134790W
Captains Courageous [adaptation]	Malvina G. Vogel	The son of a millionaire is swept overboard and rescued by a small fishing boat where he must work to earn his keep and learns about a way of life where money cannot buy everything and a man's worth …	OL15352451W
The very fairy princess	Julie Edwards,Julie Andrews	Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.	OL15529786W
Raj, the bookstore tiger	Kathleen T. Pelley	When a new manager brings Snowball, a grouchy cat, to the shop where Raj and his owner live and work, Snowball informs Raj that he is not the tiger everyone believes him to be.	OL15615948W
Deliver us from Normal	Kate Klise	With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything b…	OL15835737W
When JFK was my father	Amy Gordon	Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy a…	OL15857433W
Life in the fat lane	Cherie Bennett	Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.	OL16050642W
A. Lincoln and me	Louise Borden	With the help of his teacher, a young boy realizes that he not only shares his birthday and similar physical appearance with Abraham Lincoln, but that he is like him in other ways as well.	OL16055359W
Keep holding on	Susane Colasanti	Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide.	OL16167368W
King Hugo's huge ego	Chris Van Dusen	When haughty King Hugo tangles with a sorceress, she causes him to see himself in a more realistic light.	OL16296180W
Der Arndt-Komplex	Alban Nikolai Herbst	Arndt konnte seit zehn Uhr morgens keinen körperlichen Schmerz empfinden. Er registrierte dies, als er sich den Arm an der Tischkante stieß. Es war ein heller Sonntagvormittag, das Licht stand in wei…	OL1643290W
Painting the black	Carl Deuker	When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Remy Ward doesn't realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle's Crown Hill High.	OL17021768W
School of Charm	Lisa Ann Scott	After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, Nor…	OL17898129W
Understood Betsy	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.	OL19235W
Captains Courageous	Rudyard Kipling	Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlanti…	OL19842W
Last king of Angkor Wat	Graeme Base	Among the ruins of Angkor Wat, Tiger, Gibbon, Water Buffalo, and Gecko accept Elephant's challenge to race to a certain temple to settle their argument over who would have made the greatest king. Am…	OL19987105W
Saint Anything	Sarah Dessen	Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets…	OL20000214W
Even when you lie to me	Jessica Alcott	Charlie, a senior, isn't looking forward to her last year of high school. Another year of living in the shadow of her best friend, Lila. Another year of hiding behind the covers of her favorite novel…	OL20007168W