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Marcelo in the Real Worldby Stork, Francisco X.Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he... |
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Sunrise over Fallujahby Myers, Walter DeanIn 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking Africa... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indianby Alexie, ShermanBudding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is t... |
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Ask Me No Questionsby Budhos, MarinaFourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2... |
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The Sea of Trollsby Farmer, NancyAfter Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless... |
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How I Live Nowby Rosoff, MegTo get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bo... |
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The Year of Secret Assignmentsby Moriarty, JaclynThree female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, ... |
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The Canning Seasonby Horvath, PollyThirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a va... |
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Revenge of the WhaleThe True Story of the Whaleship Essexby Philbrick, NathanielRecounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the autho... |
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Lucy the Giantby Smith, Sherri L.Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as ... |
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