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41) Keep sweet
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until she is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss and forced to marry a violent, fifty-year-old man.
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Far and near. Lost and found. Four girls. Four generations. Georgia cannot figure out what's going on in her family. Her mother, Francie, is extremely overprotective. Her grandmother, Dana, and her great-grandmother, Abby, don't speak to each other. And Georgia's great-great-grandmother also had some secrets that nobody else knows about. Georgia knows this because she's found her great-great grandmother's diary hidden in a wall in the family's house...
43) Wildlife
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, and somehow they must help each other find themselves.
44) Girl, unframed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
Sydney Reilly's mother is the Lila Shore, a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else... certainly above her daughter. Lila is involved with Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. He loves all beautiful objects, and Syndey can...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity.
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating...
47) Things that grow
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Boston Globe "Love Letters" columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in favorite gardens.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Betsy Young is a seemingly successful New Yorker with a job at an auction house, a supportive husband, and a feisty four-year-old daughter shes terrified to let out of her sight. The reason for this fear dates back twenty years to her college days, when a series of horrific acts of violence changed the lives of Betsy and her friends forever. Since then, Betsy has tried to escape the ghosts of her past -- but her carefully curated life has begun...
49) Boomerang
Author
Publisher
Two Rivers Distribution
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Michael Sterling disappeared from his Maine town five years ago. Everyone assumed he was kidnapped. The truth is worse--he ran away and found the life he always dreamed of. Now, at seventeen, he's Sean Woodhouse. And he's come "home," to the last place he wants to ever be, to claim the small inheritance his grandparents promised him when he graduated high school, all so he can save Trip, the boy he developed an intense and complicated relationship...
50) Rage is a wolf
Author
Publisher
Whisk(e)y Tit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elaine Archer thinks the Earth might really be screwed. And she’s pretty sure sitting in a classroom memorizing Civil War battle dates isn’t gonna save it. Desperate to do something meaningful, but not sure it will do any good, Elaine talks her moms into letting her drop out of school to write a novel. Spending her days circling Chicago in search of her story, she discovers a universe of people and ideas she’d never have encountered...
52) Ninth building
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about--the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations.
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Author
Series
Abby in between volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Nine-year-old Abby McAdams grapples with changes in her home life, her body, and her perspective on the world as she navigates fourth grade.
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Belly's never been the kind of girl that things happen to. Year after year, she's spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah. The boys never noticed Belly noticing them. And every summer she hoped it would be different. This time, it was. But the summer Belly turned pretty was the summer that changed everything. For better, and for worse. --from Amazon.
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.
58) 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.
60) Golden boys
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley's Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.
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