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1) Side effects
Author
Language
English
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Description
Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives.
2) Head case
Author
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Frank Marder struggles to deal with the aftermath of an accident he had while driving drunk that killed two people, including his girlfriend, and left him paralyzed from the neck down.
3) Hate list
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
4) Babyface
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sudden departure of her inseparable friend Julie for California and her own father's unexpected illness challenge many of fourteen-year-old Toni's basic assumptions about friendship and her own happy and secure life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
As his own self-confidence grows, seventh-grader Dunk learns to be supportive both on and off the basketball court when his friend Jared goes through a difficult time, even though Jared's failure would provide Dunk more opportunities to prove himself.
11) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
12) Swear to howdy
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship.
13) Doppelganger
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.
15) Rits
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When his father runs off with his girlfriend and his distraught mother is admitted to an institution, thirteen-year-old Rits goes to live with his uncle and tries to make the best of his unusual circumstances.
17) Bottled up
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2005], c2005
Language
English
Description
"Serenity is warming up to the Christian kids who made her their "project" by showing her an unconditional love she's never experienced before. But when she tries ducking responsibility for wrecking Kimberly's car, that unconditional love turns tough. Can Serenity understand it's for her own good?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2005], c2005
Language
English
Description
Serenity Harper is the new girl in school and she seems determined to make everyone hate her. Derek, Kimberley, and the rest of the Prayer Club make it their project to be nice to her no matter how she treats them in order to bring her around to a Christian way of life.