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Author
Publisher
Walker Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated town that closely resembles the West Bank, thirteen-year-old Joshua discovers that his world may not be as it seems; that his people may be aggressors rather than victims; and that he must stand up to his stepfather and forge his own sense of right and wrong.
23) Stone rider
Author
Series
Stone rider volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"A young man who seeks revenge and redemption from his past joins a brutal race to win a chance to escape his dying world"--
24) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1848, Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice--between bondage and freedom, family and love--as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
25) The chosen one
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
With Audrey Hepburn as her inspiration, nineteen-year-old Lisbeth strives to rise above her broken home, alcohol-abusing sister and friends, the culture of "the shore," and her mother's meager dreams for her but when she secretly tries on Audrey's iconic Givenchy dress, she gets a chance to become who she longs to be.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old social outcast Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 25
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.
31) Expiration day
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation"--
32) The journey back
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After breaking out of juvenile detention, fourteen-year-old Digger stops his trek across Maryland at a campground where he recovers from injuries, cares for little Luke, works with smart and pretty Nora, and begins to understand how his behavior and choices shape his life.
33) Fish in the sky
Author
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Josh Stephenson's thirteenth year starts with a baffling sequence of events, including an odd gift from his estranged father, the arrival of his flirty seventeen-year-old female cousin, locker-room teasing about certain embarrassing anatomical changes, and wondering if dreams of love can ever come true.
34) Bushman lives!
Author
Series
Neddiad volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, Harold Knishke, a Chicago teenager with a special place in his heart for Bushman, the famed departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a hometown adventure, in a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When her older siblings go on an adventure without her, as they usually did, little Tickles the bunny reads from her book, "How to Be a Bigger Bunny," and winds up on an adventure of her own where she is challenged to "Never give up, never give up" in attempt to save her family.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
During a thirteen-hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.
38) The water seeker
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
39) Althea & Oliver
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Althea and Oliver, who have been friends since age six and are now high school juniors, find their friendship changing because he has contracted Kleine-Levin Syndrome"--
40) Getting it
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to impress a sexy female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school.
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