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10 best books like Cress Delahanty (Jessamyn West): Thunder Over Kandahar, The Year They Burned the Books, The Sweet In-Between, Another Kind of Cowboy, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up, Estrella's Quinceanera, Sex Education, Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, Choir Boy, Toning The Sweep

Thunder Over Kandahar
AuthorSharon E. McKay
ISBN1554512662
A powerful novel of enduring friendship set amid the terror and chaos of present-day Afghanistan. Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school...
The Year They Burned the Books
AuthorNancy Garden
ISBN0374386676
By the author of Annie on My Mind

When Wilson High Telegraph editor Jamie Crawford writes an opinion piece in support of the new sex-ed curriculum, which includes making condoms available to high school students, she has no idea that a huge controversy is brewing. Lisa Buel, a school board member,...
The Sweet In-Between
AuthorSheri Reynolds
ISBN1602853797
With her father in prison, her mother dead, and her eighteenth birthday on the horizon, Kenny Lugo is desperate to belong to someone, something -- anything. Her last best chance is her father's girlfriend, Aunt Glo, who has given Kenny a place to stay in her small home. But Glo is struggling herself. Addicted...
Another Kind of Cowboy
AuthorSusan Juby
ISBN0002007088
Alex Ford wishes his father had seen the movie Brokeback Mountain. Because then he might understand that it’s possible to be a gay cowboy. Trouble is, Alex doesn’t even want to be a cowboy; his dream is to ditch Western-style riding and take up dressage. But with his mother long gone, his father ensconced...
Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up
AuthorLawrence E. Walsh
ISBN0393318605
With Ronald Reagan's knowledge and support, the United States attempted to trade arms for hostages held by Iranian terrorists; some of the secret money then funded the guerrilla activities of the Nicaraguan Contras, a counter-revolutionary group that Congress had specifically forbidden the administration...
Estrella's Quinceanera
AuthorMalin Alegria
ISBN0689878109
For as long as Estrella Alvarez can remember, her mother has been planning to throw her an elaborate quinceañera for her fifteenth birthday -- complete with a mariachi band, cheesy decorations, and a hideous dress. Just thinking about her quince makes Estrella cringe. But her mother insists that...
Sex Education
AuthorJenny Davis
Fictional narrative that follows the story of Olivia Sinclair who is recalling her freshman year in a new city and high school. During this year, she meets her first "love", David, in a biology class which turns into an untraditional, exploratory, and eye-opening sex education class. As a project for...
Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You
AuthorDorian Cirrone
I hadn't really thought of my breasts as "problem breasts." It made them sound like children who wouldn't behave. No bra was going to keep these babies a secret. And those tips for the full-figured girl in the magazines? Please. Even NASA couldn't design a tank suit to camouflage my proportions.

Kayla...
Choir Boy
AuthorCharlie Jane Anders
ISBN1932360816
Twelve-year-old choirboy Berry wants nothing more than to remain a choirboy. Choral music and the prospect of divinity thrill him. Desperate to keep his voice from changing, he tries unsuccessfully to castrate himself, and then convinces a clinic to treat him as a transsexual. Berry begins a series...
Toning The Sweep
AuthorAngela Johnson
ISBN0590481428
Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.

Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as...
Night Flying
AuthorRita Murphy
Georgia Hansen can fly. All the women in her family can. They fly at night, when the world sleeps, for no one must discover their secret. Georgia will soon turn 16 and make her first solo flight, taking up her birthright with a special ceremony to mark the occasion. But her anticipation is disrupted with...
Lucy the Giant
AuthorSherri L. Smith
ISBN0440229278
Lucy Otswego is a big girl who towers over just about everyone and everything in her small Alaskan town, except for her father's horrible reputation as a mean drunk. At 15, she runs away from the cruel classmates who see her only as "the Giant," the embarrassed adults who pity her, and the abusive father...
When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune
AuthorLori Aurelia Williams
ISBN0689845936
So I just made another note to add to my blue notebook later, when the house had cooled off: Tia's nature is boiling out of her like hot soup out of a pot, and Kambia Elaine just flew in from Neptune. Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the Bottom, where life is colorful but never easy. She...
Sticks and Stones
AuthorBeth Goobie
ISBN1551432137
Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is snickering and sniping. When her mother gets involved, Jujube's reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a...
El Lector
AuthorWilliam Durbin
ISBN1561646784
This heart-warming story is about Bella, a 13-year-old girl in Tampa, Florida, in the 1930s. Her grandfather is a lector at a cigar factory, which means he reads fiction, newspapers, and union news to the workers as they roll cigars. Being a lector is an important role in their Cuban American immigrant...
White Sands, Red Menace
AuthorEllen Klages
ISBN0670062359
It is 1946. World War II is over--ended by the atomic bomb that Dewey Kerrigan's and Suze Gordon's scientist parents helped build. Dewey's been living with the Gordons since before the war's end, before her father died, moving south with them to Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the White Sands Missile Range,...
Celine
AuthorBrock Cole
ISBN0374410828
"Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant.

Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites...
When the Black Girl Sings
AuthorBil Wright
ISBN1416939954
Lahni Schuler is the only black student at her private prep school. She's also the adopted child of two loving, but white, parents who are on the road to divorce. Struggling to comfort her mother and angry with her dad, Lahni feels more and more alone. But when Lahni and her mother attend a local church one...
Revenge
AuthorTaslima Nasrin
ISBN1558616594
"Nasrin's voice is the voice of humanism everywhere."—Wole Soyinka

"Taslima Nasrin has spoken out about the oppression of women under Islam, and what she's said needed saying."—Salman Rushdie

Revenge is a delicious novel about getting even from one of the most controversial...
Mare's War
AuthorTanita S. Davis
ISBN0375857141
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past. Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn't your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up...
Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
AuthorDavid Farber
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using...
P.G. Wodehouse : Five Complete Novels (The Return of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, The Old Reliable)
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0517405385
My very favorite parts from each:

The Return of Jeeves
Wodehouse is fantastic at creating scary yet hilarious moments. When a character is feeling accusing and aggressive, Wodehouse writes: His "eyes were cold and hard, like picnic eggs."

Bertie Wooster Sees It Through
Oh,...
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
AuthorKenneth M. Pollack
ISBN0812973364
In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle, published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, he examines the behind-the-scenes...
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding / Concerning the Principles of Morals
AuthorDavid Hume
Empiricism in its purest distillation may be anathema to human nature, but the questions Hume raises regarding our ability to understand – and our claim to have knowledge of – absolute certainties, nevertheless form a basis why we seek to understand, and ultimately why we choose to believe we understand....
The Cheerleader
AuthorRuth Doan MacDougall
ISBN0966335201
First published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The
Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers.
p/pThe reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel...
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