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English
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"Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--
2) The archived
Author
Series
Archived novels volume 1
Language
English
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"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
3) Forbidden
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
5) Beetle Boy
Author
Language
English
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Description
Terrible memories resurface when Charlie's girlfriend asks questions about his childhood.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin/Mercury Radio Arts, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
With their parents struggling to make ends meet, Lily and Ryan grow tired of always eating macaroni and cheese for supper and having their Grandma stay with them, but when Grandma hears their complaints she tells a story about the magic that snow angels can bring.
7) Stolen magic
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the midst of preparations for her sister, Angeline's, wedding and her own upcoming test for full membership in the Order of Guardians, thirteen-year-old Kat must work with Lady Fotherington to seek some missing portals.
8) Clean
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
9) Dead to you
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Language
English
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Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend, Cam, are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control.
11) Crunch
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Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
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Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
13) Rumble
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
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Series
Furry Friends Animal Shelter volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When her mother gets deported, sixth grader Gaby, like her animal shelter friends, needs to find a place to live.
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Language
English
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"Ominous, fantastic, and wonderfully malevolent…. I felt the spirits of Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Albert Camus' Meursault, whispering to join the fun."- Alice Sebold, best-selling and award-winning author of The Lovely BonesA car lies at the bottom of an icy ravine. Slumped over the steering wheel, dead, is the most critically acclaimed horror writer of his time. Was it an accident? His son Milo doesn't care. For the first time in his...
17) Check & mate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
18) Kerka's book
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling Book
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her thirteenth birthday, Kerka returns to the magical land of Aventurine, where she is sent on a seemingly impossible mission that she hopes will bring back the closeness she had with her sisters before their mother's death.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Told from various viewpoints, Gabie and Drew set out to prove that their missing co-worker Kayla is not dead, and to find her before she is, while the police search for her body and the man who abducted her.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--
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