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Author: Nazemian, AbdiSummary:Genre: Bildungsromans, Young adult fiction
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Author: Hopper, LauraSummary:
Janey King's priorities used to be clear: track, school, friends, and family. But when seventeen-year-old Janey learns that her seemingly happy parents are getting divorced, her world starts...
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Author: Boteju, TanyaSummary:
Judy Blume meets RuPaul's Drag Race in this funny, feel-good debut novel about a queer teen who navigates questions of identity and self-acceptance while discovering the magical world of drag....
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Author: Tyler, AnneSummary:
Continuing a two-decade tradition of excellence in literature, New Stories from the South presents the 20 best stories of from 1996 to 2005 selected by Anne Tyler. With such authors as Lee Smith,...
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Author: Silver Slayter, RebeccaSummary:
A novel of haunting beauty and ominous suspense, The Second History is a post-apocalyptic love story about a young couple embarking on a journey to understand, for the first time, what they've...
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Author: McFarlane, JudySummary:
When Judy McFarlane is asked if she will help Grace, a woman with Down syndrome who dreams of becoming a famous writer, she realizes she holds deep, unacknowledged fears? That Grace will be a dull...
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Author: Lenski, LoisSummary:
From a Newbery Award-winning author: Seven beloved classics that beautifully capture growing up and overcoming challenges across America. In her Newbery Honor Book, Indian Captive, and her...
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great...
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Author: BLUME, JudySummary:
Ever since his father got rich from his invention, Tony Miglione has had nothing but problems. His mother is becoming a social climbing phoney and his grandma is miserable now that she's no...
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Author: Verrall, OlgaSummary:
"Her story adds to the growing literature related to individual life stories of Holocaust survivors. There is much we can learn from her book." - Benjamin Schlesinger, Professor Emeritus...
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Author: Butler, PaulSummary:
Portland, Maine, 1910. An assembly gathers to listen to a fundraising lecture by the esteemed medical missionary Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. Grenfell has been working for eighteen years with trappers...
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Author: Batalion, JudySummary:
This young readers' edition tells the remarkable story, largely forgotten until now, of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.
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Author: NUNN, JudySummary:
On location in Vanuatu, young Australian actor Samantha Lindsay plays a character based on the life of 'Mamma Tack', a World War II heroine who was invaluable to both the US forces and...
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Author: RANGER, LauraSummary:
Here are poems written by Laura between the ages of six and nine, poems about zoos and pets, parents and little brothers. They are full of life and intelligent good humour, and set a new standard...
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Author: Grafton, Sue.Summary:
When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter...