Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
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| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406821 |
Cassie Stephens is dealing with a lot. She's got asthma. World War III is waged daily in her home, beginning at the breakfast table and ending with slammed doors at night. She's running for freshperson class president. The pressure is mounting, and there's only one thing that can make Cassie feel better....
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0439786614 |
A critically acclaimed tearjerker from a master storyteller: On one side of the border is brutality and heartache; on the other side--a new life.
14yo Manny is an orphan in Juarez, Mexico. He competes with his bigger, meaner rivals for the coins American tourists throw off the bridge between...
| Author | Ouida Sebestyen |
| ISBN | 0440228735 |
To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help!
Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie...
| Author | Cynthia D. Grant |
| ISBN | 0679867260 |
I'm really surprised the summary at the top of Goodreads lays it all about the sexual abuse...I'm sure the metaphoric descriptions throughout the book would be obvious to an adult, but for me, a sheltered 11 year old reading it in 1995, it was a HUGE plot twist (but not the only plot twist) when it was finally...
| Author | Nicholasa Mohr |
| ISBN | 0064471004 |
In a city called New York ...
In a neighborhood called El Bronx ...
The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star.
A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future.
A young boy must...
| Author | Sandra Scoppettone |
| ISBN | 0553259105 |
I read this over and over as a teenager. The author did a brilliant job with this story. She not only gives us a deep look into Geri's world, but also her family: mom, dad, and brother. I also liked her school teacher mentor. The author goes deep, very deep into alcoholism and how it not only affects the drinker,...
| Author | Karin Cook |
| ISBN | 0679769447 |
In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen's One True Thing or Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about sibling rivalry and kinship, about the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart...
Another surprising bookstore find. I'm glad I'm reading this at 30 and not at 15. I think I would have liked it then, but I would've understood it in a different way, probably more intuitively but less concretely.
The main characters, Louis (Marsh) Mellow and Edna Shinglebox, get to know each other...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0380007916 |
This book tells the story of Brett, an eleven-year-old girl with a feisty unwed-and-single-by-choice mother who's brought her up on all varieties of granola liberal hogwash. The Wolf Man is her mother's new beau. He has a wolfhound, a pock-marked face and a great red beard. A pleasurable aspect of this...
| Author | Robert Lipsyte |
| ISBN | 0439080886 |
No summer vacation could be less promising than Bobby Marks's.
Bobby Marks hates hot weather. It's the time when most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants. But for Bobby, who can't even button the waist of his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes, spending the...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0380651939 |
Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood? Was it to help Dab, her retarded older brother, wracked with mysterious pain who sometimes took more care and love than Tree had to give? Was it for her...
| Author | Allan Wolf |
| ISBN | 0763628581 |
A coming-of-age road story with a supernatural twist — and a compulsively readable poetic novel about identity and belonging.
Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind and takes off on a manic...
Dear Lovey Hart,
I am desperate. I love a man old enough to be my father. I worship him from afar. Do you think there is any hope for a relationship between us?
G.C.
Dear G.C.,
Not unless he wants to adopt you.
Chip is cute. He is also the editor of the high school newspaper. So...
| Author | Stuart Dybek |
| ISBN | 0226176584 |
In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places—in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters...
| Author | Chelsea Rooney |
| ISBN | 1927575567 |
“Chelsea Rooney has written a novel that is simultaneously lacerating and deeply empathetic. It confronts difficult material in a frank and unflinching manner, yet remains grounded in an abiding authorial intelligence. Pedal marks the debut of a hugely promising writer.”
–Steven...
| Author | Constance C. Greene |
| ISBN | 0140347860 |
The first--and inho best of the series of "Al" books by Constance C. Greene. The young narrator--whose name is never given!--describes her new friend "Al" who just moved into the apartment down the hall.
Al(exandra---she NEVER uses her full name--soon because fast friends which our narrator...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0440402700 |
Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and a troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140324798 |
"Bingo Brown fell in love three times during English Class." When I read this first sentence, I knew I was in for a treat. Of course, I was the same age as Bingo at the time, sixth grade, and over the course of the next several weeks, I fell in love with Bingo, myself. I devoured everything Byars wrote about...
| Author | Jeremy C. Shipp |
| ISBN | 0984751912 |
BEWARE THE CLOWNS IN THE ATTIC—LEST YOU BECOME ONE YOURSELF!
Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap—all of them trapped...
