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No place like home
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Mary Higgins Clark |
I cannot believe I am standing in the exact spot where I was standing when I killed my mother...When she was ten Liza Barton shot her mother dead, trying to protect her from her violent stepfather. T… |
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Shadow of fear
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Jane Peart |
When Challys Winthrop promises her dying mother that she will take care of her little brother, Ty, she knows it means keeping him away from her ruthless stepfather. But in order to do so, she is forc… |
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Shock point
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April Henry |
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot c… |
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Zip
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Ellie Rollins |
"A girl discovers adventure at every highway turn. After Lyssa's mother dies, her kind but clueless new stepfather moves with her to the suburbs of Seattle in the hopes of making a fresh start. But … |
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The damned
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Andrew Pyper |
"Danny Orchard died on his 16th birthday-and so did his twin sister, Ashleigh-but only Danny came back. He wrote a bestselling memoir about his experience of heaven called The After, but despite his … |
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Lord of the deep
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Graham Salisbury |
Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii teaches thirteen-year-old Mikey about fishing, and about taking risks, making sacrifices, and facing some of life's difficult choices. |
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Like Jake and Me
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Mavis Jukes |
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together. |
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The Saturday secret
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Miriam Rinn |
Frustrated and angry over his new stepfather's strictness about Jewish traditions, such as being kosher at home and observing the Shabbat, twelve-year-old Jason fights for the right to play baseball … |
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Ms. Isabelle Cornell, herself
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Carol J. Farley |
Ibby's unhappiness at moving to Korea with her mother and new chaplain stepfather is alleviated when she meets some new friends, studies Korean and Buddhism, and becomes involved in a baffling myster… |
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The cheerleaders
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Kara Thomas |
There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident two girls dead after hitting a tree on a rainy night. Not long after, the murders happened. Those two girls… |
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The Garden of Eden Motel
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Morse Hamilton |
In the early 1950s, eleven-year-old Dal accompanies his stepfather Mr. Sabatini on a business trip to a rural community in Idaho, where Dal makes new friends and becomes involved in a scheme involvin… |
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Last summer in Louisbourg
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Claire Mowat |
While working a summer job in the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, fifteen-year-old Andrea learns a family secret as well as Canadian history. |
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Catcall
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Linda Newbery |
Josh's family is used to changes but now they're hurtling into even more. Although Josh has always had an affinity with animals, it is his younger brother Jamie who falls under the wild cat spell. Su… |
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We don't have to be friends
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Grant Nolin |
"Bonnie is thrilled to find work with a movie company, until she discovers a troubling hostility while working with Hollywood's hottest teen star" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997. |
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Rose
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Kathleen Leverich |
With the help and support of her friends in the Flower Girl Club, Rose comes to terms with her mother's upcoming remarriage. |
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Setting the trap
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Jeffrey Asher Nesbit |
Twelve-year-old Josh Landis has a chance to use some of the knowledge he has gained since moving to the High Sierras with his mother and stepfather, a park ranger, when he helps look for the person w… |
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When we married Gary
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Anna Grossnickle Hines |
Beth still remembers the daddy who went away, although her younger sibling does not, but both of them accept Gary and call him Papa. |
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The last dog on Earth
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Daniel Ehrenhaft |
Logan Moore hates everyone. The father who abandoned him. The stepfather who wants to control him. Kids who get in his face. Everyone. Except Jack. A mangy mutt that nobody wants. Except Logan. He do… |
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Stealing Henry
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Carolyn MacCullough |
The experiences of high-schooler Savannah, following her decision to take her eight-year-old half brother from his abusive father and their oblivious mother, are interspersed with the earlier story o… |
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When she hollers
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Cynthia Voigt |
Tish, a teenager who has been enduring abuse from her adoptive stepfather since she was a small child, finally decides she must do something to stop him. |
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