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The Canning Season

by Horvath, Polly

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a va...

Revenge of the Whale

The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

by Philbrick, Nathaniel

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the autho...

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 ...

The Gospel According to Larry

by Tashjian, Janet

Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site tha...

Forgotten Fire

by Bagdasarian, Adam

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Memories of Summer

by White, Ruth Anne

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summ...

Speak

by Anderson, Laurie

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

When JFK Was My Father

by Gordon, Amy L.

Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by ima...

The Wild Kid

by Mazer, Harry

Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.

My Louisiana Sky

by Holt, Kimberly Willis

Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slo...