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The hard kind of promise
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Gina Willner-Pardo |
California seventh-graders Sarah and Marjorie made a promise in kindergarten to always be friends, but Marjorie is weird and Sarah, wanting to be at least somewhat popular, makes friends with a fello… |
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Nobel genes
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Rune Michaels |
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm … |
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Godly seed
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Allan C. Carlson |
In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-ce… |
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Cordially uninvited
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Jennifer Rozines Roy |
When eleven-year-old Claire is invited to serve as a junior bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, a commoner, to the Prince of England, she learns that another, social-climbing junior bridesmaid i… |
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Quaranteen
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Lex Thomas |
When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarant… |
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Genocide
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Margaret Haerens |
"Genocide: Global Viewpoints examines current, often controversial, topics of worldwide interest and importance from a variety of international perspectives"-- |
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Student drug testing
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Lauri S. Friedman |
"Student Drug Testing: Should Students Be Drug Tested?; Who Should Be Drug Tested?; How Does Drug Testing Affect the School Community?"-- |
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I Swear
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Lane Davis |
**Who's to blame when bullying leads to suicide? A gripping exploration of crucial importance seeks answers in and out of the courtroom.**
After years of abuse from her classmates, Leslie Gatlin d… |
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Flutter
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G. J. Linko |
"All Emery Land wants is to be like any other 17-year-old--to go to school, hang out with her friends, and just be normal. But for as long as she can remember, she's suffered from seizures. And in… |
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Velveteen
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Daniel Marks |
Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that’s not the problem.
The problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it’s not a fiery inferno, i… |
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Ask the passengers
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A. S. King |
"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Ma… |
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Underworld
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Meg Cabot |
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.
Not this time.
But she is being held against her will in the… |
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Double vision
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F. T. Bradley |
"After a routine school field trip goes awry, Linc Baker is thrust into a world of intrigue and espionage, where a kid agent who looks exactly like him threatens to use powerful artifacts to control … |
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Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters
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Marissa Moss |
In her diary of doodles and writings, Daphne explores her efforts to become friends with Imogen, a fellow fourth-grader, which means pretending to become pals with Imogen's best friend, Darla. |
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Fish in the sky
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Friðrik Erlingsson |
Josh Stephenson's thirteenth year starts with a baffling sequence of events, including an odd gift from his estranged father, the arrival of his flirty seventeen-year-old female cousin, locker-room t… |
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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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Personal effects
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E. M. Kokie |
Matt has been sleepwalking through life while seeking answers about his brother T.J.'s death in Iraq, but after discovering that he may not have known his brother as well as he thought he did, Matt i… |
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Biodiversity
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Debra A. Miller |
"Biodiversity: This series covers today's most current national and international issues and the most important opinions of the past and present. The purpose of the series is to introduce readers to … |
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Paradise
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Joanna Nadin |
When sixteen-year-old Billie Paradise unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's seaside house she gains not only the opportunity to move with her mother and half brother from their cramped London apart… |
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Eggplant Alley
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D. M. Cataneo |
Thirteen-year-old Nicky Martini lives in an apartment complex, known as Eggplant Alley, in the Bronx in 1970 and struggles to cope with a changing family, a changing neighborhood, and a changing worl… |
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