The Girl in the Box
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| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0061139890 |
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship
It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
| Author | Margaret Buffie |
| ISBN | 1553370910 |
In this Gothic novel by award-winner Margaret Buffie, 16-year-old Thea is suffering from traumatic amnesia. As she returns home and begins to rediscover who she is, the empty places of her mind fill up with shadowy memories. When she begins to hear voices from the past, she must find out what these ghosts...
It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698116917 |
What could be better? Rosie and Phoebe have been best friends since they met on the divorce express, shuttling between their parents on weekends.
Now Rosie's mom and Phoebe's dad have fallen in love and they're all moving in together. Rosie has always dreamed of having a real family, but having Phoebe...
| 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 | Ellen Emerson White |
This was not a win, but I consider it totally my own fault, as practically everybody said it wasn't half as good as the sequel. I don't even really *have* an inner completist to blame, so not too sure why I didn't go straight to that. I'm sure this would have read a lot better when first published, but now it's...
| 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...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380750260 |
My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who come from homes where my mother works as a cleaning woman....
But...
| Author | Lois Duncan |
| ISBN | 0440972922 |
A realistic and truly rather frightening tale about a group students who are kidnapped on their way home from school (by a fake school bus driver who had killed the regular bus driver in cold blood in order to take his place at the wheel), when I read Lois Duncan's Five Were Missing in grade eight, I was actually...
| 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 | Rune Michaels |
| ISBN | 1416918868 |
Josh worships his older brother, Max. They look alike, they talk alike, and they both have the same interests, including their favorite massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Genesis Alpha. But Josh and Max have an even deeper connection. Because Josh was born for a reason. It was Josh's...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0590485911 |
When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics. In this award-winning novel, a young basketball star confronts...
| Author | Beth Ain |
| ISBN | 0763633968 |
In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...
| 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 | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440205395 |
Is Barry's death the latest tragedy in a string of suicides at Farrington Park High School? Or is it murder? Marti is sure her friend Barry didn't take his own life, but no one will believe her except Police Officer Prescott. But opening an investigation takes time, and Marti is determined to find her friend's...
| Author | Heather Quarles |
| ISBN | 0440227615 |
Without even noticing, 15-year-old Katherine has become the head of her household. She hasn't had time to notice. Her single mother, an out-of-work alcoholic, has been in bed for weeks, leaving Katherine and her three younger siblings to band together and fend for themselves. But it has gotten harder...
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0517605171 |
Mark Twain prolaimed Anne Shirley "the most moving and delightful" and "dearest" heroine since the immortal Alice." Millions of readers young and old, in countries all over the world, have agreed; particularly those hovering on the brink of their teens have followed her dauntless leadership into...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380706776 |
The StrangerHe was busy reading the drugstore bulletin board when Madigan first saw him. He sure was good looking! His hair was dark and he had a full beard with a mustache that curled up on the ends and hid his mouth, just as his silver sunglasses hid his eyes. Then he walked right up to the soda fountain where...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0385731337 |
Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness...
| Author | Celia Rees |
| ISBN | 0330368753 |
A room of secrets in a house of lies.
Uncle Patrick died young. That’s all Josh knows until he discovers a suitcase filled with the strangest collection of belongings. Why were these things hidden? Why is Patrick’s name never spoken? Why does no one talk about him? Ever. Josh needs answers...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590416405 |
Outside, she could freeze.
Inside, she could die.
Everyone says Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington are lovely people. But Christina knows otherwise. She sees what they are doing: First, they chose Anya. Then, Christina - but Christina was too strong for them...so now it's Dolly, sweet, trusting...
| Author | Richard Wright |
| ISBN | 1555534236 |
Now available in a new edition. Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Long Dream is a novel rich in characterization and plot that dramatizes Richard Wright's themes of oppression, exploitation, corruption, and flight. It is the story of Fishbelly (called Fish), the son of Tyree Tucker, a prominent...
The heartwarming story of a young girl who becomes orphaned and is sent to live with her distant lesbian cousin and her cousin's partner. Embraced by their love and warmly welcomed by their community of lesbian friends, she slowly discovers the true meaning of family, but their strength is put to the...
