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Danitra Brown Leaves Town
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Nikki Grimes |
It's summer vacation, but Zuri Jackson isn't happy. What will she do all summer long in the city when her best friend, Danitra. Brown, the most splendiferous girl in town, is off to visit her family … |
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Dark Sons
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Nikki Grimes |
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandon… |
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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Carole Boston Weatherford |
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse. |
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The day before
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Lisa Schroeder |
Sixteen-year-old Amber, hoping to spend one perfect day alone at the beach before her world is turned upside down, meets and feels a strong connection to Cade, who is looking for his own escape, for … |
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Love and leftovers
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Sarah Tregay |
When her father starts dating a man, fifteen-year-old Marcie's depressed mother takes her to New Hampshire but just as Marcie starts falling for a great guy her father brings her back to Iowa, where … |
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Song of the sparrow
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Lisa Ann Sandell |
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, sevente… |
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Planet Middle School
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Nikki Grimes |
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl. |
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Tilt
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Ellen Hopkins |
Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt….
Mikayla,… |
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October mourning
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Lesléa Newman,Lesléa Newman |
On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left t… |
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Serendipity and me
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Judith L. Roth |
"Sara and her father start to heal from her mother's death when a white kitten lands on their doorstep"--Provided by publisher. |
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You are not here
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Samantha Schutz |
Annaleah's grief over the tragic death of seventeen-year-old Brian is compounded by the fact that her friends did not like him, while his friends and both of their families knew nothing of their inti… |
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Dating down
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Stefanie Lyons |
Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Samantha Henderson, eager to learn about life and to get away from her father's political campaigns and her stepmother, refuses to give up on her new boyfriend, "X,… |
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In sight of home
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Nessa O'Mahony |
195 p. ; 22 cm |
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God got a dog
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Cynthia Rylant |
Cynthia Rylant and Marla Frazee imagine a God inspired to go out and experience human things"-- |
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Rumble
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Ellen Hopkins |
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved … |
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The you I've never known
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Ellen Hopkins |
With both joy and fear, seventeen-year-old Ariel begins to explore her sexuality, while living with her controlling, abusive father who has told Ariel that her mother deserted her years ago. |
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Out of This Place
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Emma Cameron |
Follows three teens who struggle with hardscrabble realities, from Luke, who works at the local supermarket and tries to stay out of trouble; to Bongo, who drinks to avoid his abusive family; to Case… |
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Love That Dog
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Sharon Creech |
*Love that Dog* is a story about a young boy named Jack, and how he learns to love poetry. At the same time, he learns to open up about his feelings on a subject learned only if you read the book. Th… |
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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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Summerhouse Time
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Eileen Spinelli,Joanne Lew-Vriethoff |
The approach of summerhouse time at the beach brings back good memories of this annual tradition, of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents cleaning, laughing, eating, playing, and relaxing. |
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