FIC CHA
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Chaltas, Thalia. Because I am furniture. New York : Speak, 2010, c2009.
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
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FIC CHA
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Chambers, Veronica. Fifteen candles. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2010.
Alicia takes it upon herself to organize a massive celebration for Sarita's quinceañera, and soon finds that the job is too overwhelming.
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FIC CHA
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Chappell, Crissa-Jean. Total constant order. 1st ed. New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2007.
Resentful and upset when her family moves from Vermont to Miami, Florida, and her parents' fighting escalates, high-schooler Fin develops OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) and becomes consumed with numbers, counting, irrational worrying, and avoiding germs.
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FIC CHB
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Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower. New York : MTV Books/Pocket Books, c1999.
Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.
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FIC CIS
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Cisneros, Sandra. The house on Mango Street. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.
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FIC CLA
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Clark, Mary Higgins. Where are the children? 30th anniversary edition. New York : Pocket Books, c2005.
Nancy Harmon, freed when the main witness in her trial for the murder of her children flees the country, changes her identity and moves to the east coast where she remarries and has two more children, but her nightmare begins again when she looks out the window one day to find Mike and Missy have disappeared.
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FIC COH
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Cohen, Barbara. The innkeeper's daughter. 1st ed. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1979.
Helping her widowed mother run a small inn provides sixteen-year-old Rachel with many opportunities to adjust to growing up. Helping her widowed mother run a small inn provides 16-year-old Rachel with many opportunities to adjust to growing up.
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FIC COH
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Cohn, Rachel. Cupcake. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Former "bad girl" Cyd Charisse moves to New York City to live with her half-brother Danny while exploring career options and various relationships, including the one with Shrimp, who is surfing in New Zealand.
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FIC COH
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Cohn, Rachel,. Gingerbread. New York: Simon, 2002.
After she is expelled from boarding school, Cyd Charisse finds that her problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
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FIC COH
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Cohn, Rachel. Shrimp. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2005.
Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.
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FIC COH
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Cohn, Rachel. You know where to find me. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
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FIC COL
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Cole, Stephen, 1971-. Wounded. New York : Razorbill, [2005].
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure.
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FIC COL
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Collins, Suzanne. Catching fire. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
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FIC COL
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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
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FIC COL
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Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.
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FIC COM
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Combres, Elisabeth. Broken memory : a novel of Rwanda. Toronto, Ont. ; : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2009.
Five-year-old Emma witnesses the brutal murder of her mother during the 1994 genocide massacres in Rwanda and seeks shelter with an aging Hutu woman; but years later when war ends, Emma's fears continue to haunt her as she finds the courage to begin her healing.
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FIC COO
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Cooney, Caroline B. Enter three witches : a story of Macbeth. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
After her father is killed for being a traitor, fourteen-year-old Lady Mary, who is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth, is sent to the scullery, where she works as a maid and uncovers the couple's secret plans. Includes lines from Shakespeare's play.
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FIC COR
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Cormier, Robert. The bumblebee flies anyway. New York: Bantam, c1983 [1993].
Sixteen-year-old Barney is amnesic but, as a voluntary patient, he knows he is different from terminally ill patients. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.
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FIC COW
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Cowan, Jennifer. Earthgirl. Toronto, Ont. ; : Groundwood Books, 2009.
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Solomon, having been in an altercation with a driver who threw garbage at her, decides to change her life and become a crusader for the environment, but finds her new passion met by resistance from her family and friends and taking a dark turn.
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FIC CRO
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Crowe, Chris. Mississippi trial, 1955. New York : Speak, 2003.
In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African-American from Chicago.
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris. Angry management : three novellas. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2009.
A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris,. The crazy horse electric game. New York: Laurel-Leaf, 1987.
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by an African-American benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris. Deadline. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2007.
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos.".
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris,. Running loose. New York: Laurel-Leaf, 1986.
When he is tossed off the football team for refusing to make an illegal hit, Louis, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris. The sledding hill. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2005.
Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris. Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes : a novel. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Greenwillow Books, c1993.
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, 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.
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FIC CRU
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Crutcher, Chris. Whale talk. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2001.
Intellectually and athletically gifted, T.J., a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports until he agrees to form a swimming team.
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FIC CUS
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Cushman, Karen. Matilda Bone. New York : Clarion, c2000.
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
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FIC CUS
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Cushman, Karen. The midwife's apprentice. New York : Clarion Books, c1995.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
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FIC DAS
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Dashner, James, 1972-. The maze runner. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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FIC DAV
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Davis, Deborah, 1957-. Not like you. New York : Clarion Books, c2007.
When she and her mother move once again in order to make a new start, fifteen-year-old Kayla is hopeful that her mother will be able to stop drinking and begin a better life, as she has been promising for years.
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FIC DAV
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Davis, Tanita S. Mare's war. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009.
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
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FIC DE
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De Palma, Toni. Under the banyan tree. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c2007.
After her mother leaves, fifteen-year-old Irena runs away from home and hitchhikes to Key West where she tries to make a better life for herself.
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FIC DEA
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Deaver, Julie Reece. The night I disappeared. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2002.
Since moving to Chicago, seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman has been plagued by mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her best friend Webb. When her daydreams begin blocking out reality, her mother, and her new friend Morgan see that she gets help from Morgan's psychiatrist aunt.
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FIC DEN
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Denman, K. L., 1957-. Me, myself and Ike. Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book Publishers, 2009.
Kit and Ike are obsessed with the idea of becoming the next "Ice Man" and leaving behind artifacts that reflect early twenty-first century life; and by the time their friends and family discover their plan, Kit and Ike begin their journey to a nearby mountain.
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FIC DER
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Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961-. Sarah's key. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2007.
American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.
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FIC DES
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Desai Hidier, Tanuja. Born confused. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2002.
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.
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FIC DES
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Dessen, Sarah. Along for the ride : a novel. New York : Viking, 2009.
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.
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FIC DES
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Dessen, Sarah. That summer. New York : Orchard Books, c1996.
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
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FIC DEU
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Deuker, Carl. Runner. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
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FIC DOC
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Doctorow, Cory. Little brother. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2008.
Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
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FIC DOG
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Dogar, Sharon. Waves. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House/Scholastic, 2007.
While on summer vacation with his family in Brackinton, fifteen-year-old Hal begins to hear thoughts his sister is having, even though she is in a comatose state in a hospital back home, and discovers the truth behind the accident that put her there.
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FIC DOK
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Dokey, Cameron. Before midnight : a retelling of "Cinderella" 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007.
A retelling of the tale about a girl whose father remarries and the effects that her stepmother has on the family.
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FIC DOW
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Dowd, Siobhan. Bog child. 1st American ed. New York : David Fickling Books, 2008.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
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FIC DOW
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Dowd, Siobhan. Solace of the road. 1st American ed. New York : David Fickling Books, c2009.
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
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FIC DRA
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Draper, Sharon M. Romiette and Julio. New York: Atheneum, 1999.
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tie-in to this novel.
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FIC DRA
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Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). November blues. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho.
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FIC DUR
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Durrow, Heidi W., 1969-. The girl who fell from the sky : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is an African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity.
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FIC DYG
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Dygard, Thomas J. Halfback tough. Reinforced ed. New York : Morrow, c1986.
New at Graham High, Joe joins the football team and begins to change his tough guy outlook as he becomes absorbed by the game and gains self-esteem and new friends.
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FIC DYG
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Dygard, Thomas J. The rookie arrives. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1988.
Cocky Ted Bell moves from being star of his high school baseball team directly into playing in the major leagues and finds that he has a lot to learn before becoming the world's greatest third baseman.
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FIC EAS
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Easton, Kelly. To be Mona. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008.
High school senior Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a popular football player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that abandoning her real friends and letting herself be manipulated by others does not make her feel better after all.
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FIC EFA
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Efaw, Amy. After. New York : Viking, 2009.
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.
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FIC EHR
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Ehrenhaft, Daniel. Dirty laundry. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2009.
Carli, a beautiful Hollywood actress doing undercover research at The Winchester School of the Arts, is paired up with senior student and graffiti artist Fun--short for Fellini Udall Newport--and together the pair try to solve the mystery of talented senior Darcy Novak, who has disappeared.
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FIC ELK
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Elkeles, Simone. How to ruin your boyfriend's reputation. 1st ed. Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, c2009.
Spoiled Amy Nelson-Barak is excited about going to see her boyfriend, who is in the Israeli Army, until Amy learns that she has to take basic training and her boyfriend is going to be her commanding officer.
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FIC ELL
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Ellis, Ann Dee. Everything is fine. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers, 2009.
When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to try to cope with her mother, who has been severely depressed since the death of Mazzy's baby sister.
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FIC ELL
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Ellis, Helen. What curiosity kills. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Fire, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Mary Richards attends a private school in Upper Manhattan and discovers that she is slowly transforming into a cat.
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FIC FAL
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Falla, Jack, 1944-. Saved. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2008, c2007.
Aging professional hockey player Jean Pierre Savard, still coping with the death of his wife, and his friend and teammate Cam Carter, decide they are going to win the Stanley Cup and will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
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FIC FAL
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Falls, Kat. Dark life. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
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FIC FAN
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Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica's guide to dating on the dark side. New York : Harcourt, 2009.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
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FIC FER
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