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Quaking
Kathryn Erskine.
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236 p. ; 22 cm.
In a Pennsylvania town where anti-war sentiments are treated with contempt and violence, Matt, a fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker family, deals with the demons of her past as she battles bullies of the present, eventually learning to trust in others as well as herself.
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Snow falling in spring : Coming of age in China during the cultural revolution
Moying Li.
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xiii, 176 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"Moying Li is twelve years old when the Cultural Revolution sweeps across China. Studying at a prestigious language school in Beijing, she seems destined for a promising future. But everything changes when student Red Guards orchestrate brutal assaults, public humiliations, and forced confessions throughout the country." "After watching her headmasters beaten in public, Moying flees school for the safety of home, only to find her beloved grandmother denounced, her house ransacked, and her baba taken away - along with his precious books. Struggling to make sense of her crumbling world, she finds sanctuary in literature. But with many schools shut down and most books forbidden, how can she keep her passion for learning alive?" "This memoir illuminates a dark time in China's history as it tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming-of-age."--BOOK JACKET.
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Someone to love me
Anne Schraff.
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162 p. ; 18 cm.
Cindy's relationship with Bobby Wallace has the potential for trouble and danger.
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Summer of secrets
Paul Langan.
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142 p. ; 18 cm.
A frightening ordeal at the end of the school year has turned Darcy Wills's world upside down. With her ex-boyfriend miles away in Detroit and her beloved grandmother gone, Darcy is more alone than ever. Darcy turns to her remaining friends only to discover one of them has an even bigger secret. Now, forced into a crisis beyond her control, Darcy must take a stand for herself--and for her friend. When the dust settles, Darcy will never be the same again.
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Sweethearts : a novel
by Sara Zarr.
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217 p. ; 22 cm.
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
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Tennyson
Lesley M.M. Blume.
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288 p. ; 22 cm.
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
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Winter
Mark Crilley.
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9, 165 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
As Miki and Hiro trek through the frozen north they wonder if their love can survive the freezing conditions and frightening forces attempting to tear them apart.
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You know where to find me
Rachel Cohn.
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204 p. ; 22 cm.
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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