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jacket/cover - click for larger view Secret heart
David Almond
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Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus
2002; ; isbn:0385729472 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi ; decorations by Ruth E. Murray
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As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious
1990; 215 p.; isbn:053105893X More Information

image not found Wolf rider
by Avi
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After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him
1992; 4 sound cassettes (5 hrs.); isbn:1556906145

jacket/cover - click for larger view Hope was here
Joan Bauer
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor
2000; 186 p.; isbn:0399231420 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view The Goblin Wood
Hilari Bell.
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A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical creatures.
2003; 294 p.; isbn:0060513713 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Life in the fat lane
by Cherie Bennett
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Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl
1998; 260 p.; isbn:0385322747 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Anne Frank and me
by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
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After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation
2001; 291 p.; isbn:0399233296 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view For freedom : the story of a French spy
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
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Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
2003; 181 p.; isbn:0385729618 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Girls in pants : the third summer of the sisterhood
Ann Brashares.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.
2005; 337 p.; isbn:0385729359 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view The second summer of the sisterhood
Ann Brashares
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2003; 373 p.; isbn:0385729340 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view The sisterhood of the traveling pants
Ann Brashares
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Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants
2001; 294 p.; isbn:0385729332 More Information

jacket/cover - click for larger view Ender's game
Orson Scott Card.
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An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction
1992; 349 p.; isbn:0812550706 More Information

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