Triple time. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
Pioneer -- The date farm -- Slow stately dance in triple time -- The grand tour -- Hayloader -- Safety -- Rub al-Khali. A collection of linked stories that follow the lives of people of divergent cultures living in tradition-bound Saudi Arabia in the 1980s.
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Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-. The deadly sister. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
Abby Goodwin sets out to find her sister Maya, who is the prime suspect in the murder of her tutor Jefferson Andrews, and at the same time try to find the true killer.
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Schumacher, Julie, 1958-. Black box : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
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Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones. Boston: Little, 2002.
When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange place, she tells us in a fresh and spirited voice of a teenage girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope.
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Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones : a novel. 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed. New York : Back Bay Books, 2004, c2002.
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.
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Sitomer, Alan Lawrence. The secret story of Sonia Rodriguez. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Tenth-grader Sonia Rodriguez reveals secrets about her life and her Hispanic family while she studies hard so that she can be the first member of her family to successfully finish high school.
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Smith, Roland, 1951-. Peak. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Smith, Sherri L. Flygirl. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Sones, Sonya. One of those hideous books where the mother dies. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004.
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
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Sorrells, Walter. Fake ID. 1st ed. New York : Sleuth Dutton, c2005.
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.
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Sparks, Nicholas. The last song. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.
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Sparks, Nicholas,. The notebook. New York: Warner Books, 1996.
Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson dreamabout the love each one lost over a decade ago.
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Spillebeen, Geert. Kipling's choice. 1st American ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
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Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. Project 17. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 2007.
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.
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Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the real world. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
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 goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
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Strasser, Todd. Give a boy a gun. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000.
Through interviews and letters, tells the fictional story of two boys who hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance, and offers facts about guns and school violence throughout the story.
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Strasser, Todd. If I grow up. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
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Stratton, Allan. Leslie's journal. Rev. [ed]. Toronto, ON ; : Annick Press, c2008.
Leslie's life seems to settle from chaos to wonderful when Jason, the new guy in school, asks her out, but things quickly spin out of control when she finds out that Jason is not as nice as she thought and she must find away to break out of the relationship.
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Sutcliff, Rosemary. Frontier wolf. 1st Front Street pbk. ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2008, c1980.
As punishment for his poor judgment, a young, inexperienced Roman army officer is sent to Northern England to assume the command of a motley group known as the Frontier Wolves.
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Sweeney, Joyce. The guardian. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
When thirteen-year-old Hunter, struggling to deal with a harsh, money-grubbing foster mother, three challenging foster sisters, and a school bully, returns to his childhood faith and prays to St. Gabriel, he instantly becomes aware that he does, indeed, have a guardian.
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Sweeney, Joyce. Players. 1st ed. Delray Beach, Fla. : Winslow Press, 2000.
Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.
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Tayleur, Karen. Chasing boys. New York : Walker & Co., 2009, c2007.
With her father gone and her family dealing with financial problems, El transfers to a new school, where she falls for one of the popular boys and then must decide whether to remain true to herself or become like the girls she scorns.
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Thompson, Kate, 1956-. Creature of the night. 1st American ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2009, c2008.
Bobby recklessly smokes, drinks, and steals cars in Dublin, and when his mother relocates the family to a small cottage in the countryside, Bobby believes a certain spookiness lurks in the corners of the new home.
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Tullson, Diane, 1958-. Riley Park. Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book Publishers, 2009.
Seventeen-year-old Corbin struggles to get his life back and cope with the loss of his best friend after they were viciously assaulted.
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Tyree, Omar. Flyy girl. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2000], c1996.
Tracy is sixteen and obsessed with collecting designer clothes, jewelry, and boys while her best friend Raheema struggles to follow a different path by focusing on grades and achievement, which challenges Tracy to reexamine her life and goals.
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Vance, Lee. The garden of betrayal. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2010.
Seven years after his twelve-year-old son Kyle vanished, Mark Wallace, an energy markets consultant for a private hedge fund, learns their may be a connection between his son's case and the recent bombing of a natural gas pipeline in Russia and must rely on his distant daughter and still-grieving wife to uncover the truth.
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Varley, John, 1947-. Red thunder. New York: Ace, 2003.
A band of suburban teenage misfits decide to construct a spaceship, Red Thunder, to fly to Mars in just under four days to save the astronauts on the Ares Seven space ship.
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Vivian, Siobhan. A little friendly advice. New York : PUSH, c2008.
When Ruby's divorced father shows up unexpectedly on her sixteenth birthday, the week that follows is full of confusing surprises, including discovering that her best friend has been keeping secrets from her, her mother has not been truthful about the past, and life is often complicated.
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Volponi, Paul. Hurricane song. New York : Viking, 2008.
Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.
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Volponi, Paul. Response. New York : Viking, 2009.
Three boys are charged with a hate crime after an African-American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood.
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Volponi, Paul. Rucker Park setup. New York : Viking, 2007.
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.
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Wallace, Rich. One good punch. 1st ed. New York : A. Knopf, c2007.
Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his life--until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change everything.
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Wallace, Rich. Wrestling Sturbridge. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.
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Wasserman, Robin. Skinned. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008.
Lia Kahn's family pays for the most advanced medical technology to save her when her body is devastated in a horrible accident, but when the operations are complete, Lia remains alive but her body does not.
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Weaver, Will. Checkered flag cheater. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.
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Werlin, Nancy. The rules of survival. New York : Dial Books, c2006.
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.
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Westerfeld, Scott. Extras. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007.
In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.
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Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps : a novel. New York : Razorbill, c2005.
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
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Westerfeld, Scott. Pretties. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.
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Westerfeld, Scott,. Specials. New York: Simon, 2006.
"Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor--frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary. And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One corner of her heart still remembers something more. Still, it's easy to tune that out--until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
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Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
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Williams-Garcia, Rita. Every time a rainbow dies. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death.
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Wilson, Diane L. Firehorse. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2006.
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
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Woodson, Jacqueline. Behind you. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2004.
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
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Woodson, Jacqueline. Hush. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2002.
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
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Woodson, Jacqueline. If you come softly. New York : Putnam's, 1998.
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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Woodson, Jacqueline. Peace, Locomotion. New York : Putnam's, c2009.
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
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Wright, Bil. When the black girl sings. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only African-American student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
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Yoo, Paula. Good enough. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2008.
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
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Zarr, Sara. Once was lost : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year-old Samara, who feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question her faith.
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Ziegler, Jennifer, 1967-. How not to be popular. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new Austin, Texas, school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom.".
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Zindel, Lizabeth. The secret rites of social butterflies. New York : Viking, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Maggie's fears about making friends as an incoming senior at an exclusive New York City girls school are allayed when she is invited to join an elite secret society devoted to eavesdropping and recording the "truth" about students and faculty.
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Zusak, Markus. The book thief. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf :, c2006.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992. I, robot. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1991, c1977.
Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great practitioner of the new science of robopsychology in 2008, looks back on her career with U.S. Robotics on the occasion of her retirement fifty years later, telling stories of how the mechanical race developed.
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