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My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters By Syndey Salter
Jory is getting ready to embark on her senior year.  But there are a few things that she wants to accomplish over the summer that are essential to senior year success.  One is (More)
Fat Kid Rules the World
If you like Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson or if you are a Chris Crutcher fan, Fat Kid Rules the World is your book.  K.L. Going writes a very powerful novel about the pow (More)
Wolves, Boys and Other Things that might Kill Me By Kristen Chandler
In the nature of Carl Hiaason's YA novels Hoot and Flush, Kristen Chandler's first novel is set in Yellowstone National Park where the wolf population is dwindling after their (More)
Borderline by Allan Stratton
Sami has been fitting in with his friends just fine ever since fourth grade.  But it is a slightly tenuous relationship because Sami is Muslim and his father just got arreste (More)
The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
Ben Campbell is mad when he and his two dads move from the gritty city streets where temptation to act out is abundant to Rough Butte, Montana where life is as slow as mo (More)
Lifted By Wendy Toliver
Lifted is Wendy Toliver's third young adult novel and I must say, edgiest!  Main character, Poppy, has just moved to a small town in Texas after having lived in Boulder, Colo (More)
Tending to Grace by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Tending to Grace.  It is a lovely story about a young girl, Cornelia, with a stutter who is treated poorly by educators because of her inability to project her thoughts through speech.  If her life wasn't bad enough with the stuttering, then she must (More)
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Fifteen year old Evie has found herself in Florida on vacation with her Stepfather and mother just after the conclusion of World War II.  Her stapfather, Joe, is a appliance salesman and after receiving a phone call in a long line of harassing phone (More)
Firmament by Tim Bowler
Imagine my surprise when I picked this up, started reading and remembered the story!!  :-) Firmament is about Luke, who's father has died and who's mother is getting remarried.  Luke who is determined to find out what the crying is behind the locked (More)
Heat by Mike Lupica
Leave it to Mike Lupica to write a gripping baseball story with vivid details of events happening on the field and off. The story could have easily slipped into a play by play of each of Michael Arroyo's games but Lupica weaves in a best friend, a tr (More)
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