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English
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At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Doris's mother, a professional singer, returns to Puerto Rico and her father finds a girlfriend, Doris cares for a neighbor's pigeons and relies on friends as she begins to find her own voice and wings.
Author
Series
Jack series volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jack's five-year-old neighbor goes missing shortly after he had seen him riding near the Pine Barrens, and when a man emerges from the woods, claiming to have been chased by something all night, Jack wonders if the fifteen-foot-tall pyramid, the circus outside of town, or other mysteries could be responsible for the strange occurrences.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
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Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
