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Lucy the Giant

by Smith, Sherri L.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as ...

Double Luck

Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan

by Lu, Chi & White, Becky

Tells the story of the author's struggles after being orphaned at the age of three and how he held on to his dream of coming to the United States as he passed ...

Turnabout

by Haddix, Margaret Peterson & Nielsen, Cliff

YA. Two elderly women get the chance to live out a fantasy to be young again through a project called Turnabout. The injection to make them grow young works, b...

Harley

Like a Person

by Bauer, Cat

Who is my father? That's the difficult question faced by Harley Columba, the feisty 14-year-old narrator of Cat Bauer's debut novel. Harley lives in a suburb l...

Close to a Killer

by Qualey, Marsha

Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

Forged by Fire

by Draper, Sharon M.

Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the prob...

Asylum for Nightface

by Brooks, Bruce

A deeply spiritual seventeen-year-old takes a radical step to save himself from the fanaticism of his found-again Christian parents.

The Bomb

by Taylor, Theodore W.

In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desp...

Summer Love (Silver Beach, No 1)

by Schwemm, Diane

Who’s spending the summer at the private Silver Beach?Elli Wells denies her own longings to protect her younger brother from Charlotte Ransom, the girl she k...

Painted Devil

by Bedard, Michael

A visit from strange Aunt Emily invokes in Alice a foreboding sense of evil, as they find connections between the local library's collection of old puppets and...