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Allende, Isabel City of the Beasts When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon River Valley, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world of magic realism as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians. 2002 Teen Fiction Book ALLENDE |
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Almond, David, 1951- Skellig Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel. 2001 Children's Fiction Book ALMOND |
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Bauer, Joan, 1951- Hope Was Here When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. 2000 Teen Fiction Book BAUER |
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Bell, Hilari The Goblin Wood A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical creatures. 2003 Teen Fiction Book BELL |
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Booth, Coe Tyrell Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father. 2006 Teen Fiction Book BOOTH |
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Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- The Queen of Cool Bored with her life, popular high school junior Libby signs up for an internship at the zoo and discovers that the science nerds she meets there may have a few things to teach her about friendship and life. 2006 Teen Fiction Book CASTELL |
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Crutcher, Chris Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes The daily class discussions about the nature of human-kind, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help. 1993 Teen Fiction Book CRUTCHER |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud Not Buddy Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father -- the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. 1999 Children's Fiction Book CURTIS |
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DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. 2000 Children's Fiction Book DICAMILLO |
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Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. 2004 Teen Fiction Book DONNELLY |
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Freymann-Weyr, Garret, 1965- My Heartbeat As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing. 2002 Teen Fiction Book FREYMAN |
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Freymann-Weyr, Garret, 1965- Stay with Me When her sister kills herself, sixteen-year-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is. 2006 Teen Fiction Book FREYMAN |
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Gantos, Jack Hole in My Life The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. 2002 Teen Nonfiction Book 921 G156 |
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Gardiner, John Reynolds Stone Fox Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. 2003 Children's Fiction Book GARDINE |
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson Among the Hidden A government decree allows each family only two children. For Luke, a third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way lead to freedom? 1998 Children's Fiction Book HADDIX |
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L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time. Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. 1962 Children's Fiction Book L'ENGLE |
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Lyga, Barry The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy Goth Girl A fifteen-year-old geek who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. 2007 Teen Fiction Book LYGA |
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Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937- Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against the Japanese invaders. Includes historical notes. 2005 Teen Fiction Book MAH |
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Martin, Ann M., 1955- A Corner of the Universe The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. 2002 Teen Fiction Book MARTIN |
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Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952- Touching Spirit Bear After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. 2001 Children's Fiction Book MIKAELS |
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