A Room on Lorelei Street
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| Author | Maureen Doyle McQuerry |
| ISBN | 0310767385 |
“The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched yellow lawn … Only two things kept my mother grounded to us: my uncle Stephen and stories.”
Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 1844282511 |
When a car accident leaves a teenage girl in a coma, her surviving sister struggles with grief and guilt as she faces the inevitability of moving on — and letting go.
To seventeen-year-old Rose, it seems it keeps happening - that car crash on a mountain road, her older sister, Ivy, behind...
Bridget Edelstein is taking a year off before she goes to college, to try to recover from the the recent death of Benji, her longtime best friend-turned-reluctant boyfriend. Rather than accept support from her friends or family, Bridget turns to Jasper, a wonderful guy willing to nurse her broken soul-when...
| Author | Celeste Conway |
| ISBN | 0385733399 |
Giselle is a cultured ballet student, the daughter of the famous ballerina Marina Parke-Vanova and the late dance historian Grigori Vanov. On her first-ever trip to "Westchest-ah", as her mother's deranged boyfriend Blitz calls it, she meets the most beautiful boy she's ever seen. Will introduces...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 0061429287 |
Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfather too, Rosie begins to visit him every day, traveling...
| Author | Lisa Ann Sandell |
| ISBN | 0670060283 |
Sarah, like every college-bound junior, deals with constant pressure from teachers, friends, and parents. Besides that, she’s a marching band geek and the only Jew in her class. So when she gets a chance to spend the summer on a kibbutz in Israel, Sarah jumps at the opportunity to escape her world....
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 1555915663 |
Of all the misconceptions and misunderstandings perpetuated about Native peoples, the role of women in traditional cultures is perhaps the most falsely portrayed. The image of the overworked 'squaw'...women as property to be bought, sold, or traded. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Native...
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0689854021 |
Assigned to write his autobiography, high school senior Rob Radkovitz decides to "listen" back on his life. As he remembers the voices of his younger self, his quirky family, and his closest friends, one stands apart -- the haunting voice of his long-absent father, left behind on a single tape from one...
| Author | Catherine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0142402354 |
Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates - and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled.
School is bad enough, but facing...
| Author | Debra Garfinkle |
| ISBN | 0142407828 |
The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...
| Author | Geert Spillebeen |
| ISBN | 0618800352 |
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.
When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060541512 |
This is the only JCO novel that hooked me instantly and didn't let go. It's the story of 16-year-old Darren who excels on the swim team and has grown incredibly handsome. He becomes popular and begins receiving a number of special favors reserved for the young and beautiful. But being the shy type he doesn't...
| Author | Tammar Stein |
| ISBN | 0375830235 |
He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ruined his life. Seven people were killed instead. A single mother of two. A computer programmer. Two college students. A grandmother and her four-year-old grandson sharing an ice cream. And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to...
| Author | Valerie Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0374303746 |
From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send off for the same catalogs, promising never to separate....
| Author | Stephanie Hemphill |
| ISBN | 0786837454 |
Sarah used to be the good girl. The one who always had her hand raised in class, always obeyed her parents.
Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0385754361 |
“Stick” is the best wide receiver in the history of his high school—the football seems magnetically drawn to his hands, hence his nickname.
Preston is an outcast, and his pipsqueak stature and nerdy social status couldn’t be further from a star athlete’s.
Stick puts on...
| Author | Adele Griffin |
| ISBN | 0399237836 |
Once, Jane was the big sister, teaching Lily to play make believe and protecting her from thunderstorms. But then Lily grew up. She started making friends and dating boys, while Jane wanted to go on playing make believe forever. For Jane, the line between fantasy and reality had always blurred, whereas...
| Author | Rose Wilkins |
| ISBN | 0142405817 |
The book i just finished reading is called So Super Starry by
Rose Wilkins. This is a fiction book that has the theme is how your
treated when your parents a celebrity.
This book is about how a girl named Octavia from London who's
mom is a d-list celebrity and her dad is director who's gay....
| Author | Kimberly Newton Fusco |
| ISBN | 0553494236 |
Lenore is Cornelia’s mother and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore...
| Author | Dominique Paul |
| ISBN | 1416913106 |
I am sitting on my front stoop. I think it's about midnight. I was busy reading up until an hour ago, but my eyes started to hurt from squinting. Now it's just me and the waiting.It's 1987 and fourteen-year-old Ellie Roma doesn't have much of a family. She lives with her mother, who has taken a break from parenting;...
| Author | Melissa Lion |
| ISBN | 0375839542 |
Marty’s small town in Alaska is the most beautiful place in the world. There she and her beloved boyfriend, Steven, can walk through fields of fireweed, explore the wild, and tie pink floozy fishing lures to catch the salmon that swim upstream. But when she starts her senior year, Marty must return...
| Author | Aury Wallington |
| ISBN | 1595140921 |
Marit has decided: It's time to lose it. Being a virgin is getting in the way of holding on to a boyfriend. So who better to get it over with than her best guy friend, Jamie? They've known each other forever. It's pressure-free. But doing the deed changes everything. Jamie falls for Marit! Not only does he...
| Author | Andy Behrens |
| ISBN | 0142408336 |
The light at the end of nice boy Ian s boring summer is Danielle, someone he met online who might be really hot and who might have agreed to have sex with him. Ian is new to this sex thing and Danielle is nine hundred miles away, but Ian thinks Danielle mightbe the right girl, and if he can get himself and his two...
