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Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fifth grader Benny wants to focus on not flunking out of fifth grade, but he must also cope with his complicated home life with newly divorced parents, a mother who moves away, and a father with terminal lung cancer.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
8) Deadfall
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Cory and Ty Bic, seventeen, search for an escape from criminals in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Edition
1st Edition
Language
English
Description
In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.Every day in Coalton is pretty much the same. Mike pumps iron in the morning, drives her truck to school, plays softball in the afternoon, and fixes the neighbors' plumbing at night. But when an exotic new girl, Xanadu, arrives in the small Kansas town, Mike's world is turned upside down. Xanadu is everything...
10) Nowhere special
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Description
"Author Matt Wallace delivers a deeply moving story exploring that first formative friendship, navigating challenging family circumstances, and finding hope and strength in a forgotten desert town. Perfect for fans of Ernesto Cisneros and Julie Murphy." -Provided by Publisher
11) Tall tales
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.
12) Indigo blue
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Indigo, her mother, and her toddler sister have to move out of their apartment because of troubles with Mum's boyfriend, while Indie is also having best friend problems at school, leaving her stressed, confused, and lonely.
14) No place to fall
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Amber Vaughn dreams of attending the North Carolina School of the Arts to gain confidence in using her amazing singing voice, but her family is falling apart and she is torn between two boys.
15) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
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Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
18) Bruiser
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bront ︠befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Benjamin Waterfalls comes from a broken home, and the quickest fix he's found for his life is to fill that emptiness with stuff he steals and then sells. But he's been caught one too many times, and when he appears before a tough judge, his mother proposes sending him to "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where they used to live. Soon he is on his way to Grand Portage, Minnesota, to live with his father - the man Benny hasn't...
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