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Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
As a documentary is filmed at their middle school, roles reverse for worrier Trevor and his lifelong best friend Libby, who has always rescued him from embarrassing situations but is now focused on being "cool" and no longer wants to be his "friend friend."
23) The North Star
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Description
After following paths and signs determined by others, a young boy finally realizes that he must find his own individual way in life.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Based on the Emmy Award-winning "genius" (The Guardian) web series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, this is a new novel starring Lizzie's spunky sister Lydia as she navigates the joys and pitfalls of becoming an adult in the digital age. Before her older sister, Lizzie, started her wildly popular vlog, Lydia was just a normal twenty-year-old plotting the many ways she could get away with skipping her community college classes and finding the perfect...
26) When it happens
Author
Publisher
Viking/Penguin
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
High school seniors Sara and Tobey attempt to figure out what is important in life as they try to balance their preparations for their futures with their enjoyment of the present.
Author
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Newly orphaned Will Braddock doesn't want some old judge dictating his future, so the fourteen-year-old embarks upon a quest to determine his own destiny. He heads west to find his uncle, a surveyor on the first transcontinental railroad, and persuade his only living relative not to sign the judge's papers sentencing him to a blacksmith apprenticeship. Will wants to be free to ride across the windswept prairies and through the forested mountains....
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
30) Paint the wind
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
31) Project Me 2.0
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Farley Andrew Turner (yes, that spells "Fat") wants to give his image a little boost ... and maybe, just maybe, he can impress his secret crush. But when he clicks on a website that promises to provide a pathway to achieving the self-improvement he needs, things go wrong--big time. Suddenly he's sharing his bedroom with a tiny Internet guru who'd really like to be surfing the waves, not the Web. Now, in order to rid himself of the four-inch-tall...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2009
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
Speak
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth, must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
36) Pinta el viento
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The "conclusion in the ... Broken Road trilogy, a ... redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66"-- Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash, a flight he narrowly missed. But thanks to that remarkable twist of fate, he’s very much alive and ready for a second chance at life and love. Escaping death has brought Charles some clarity:...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Single mother April Parker has lived in Willow Creek for twelve years with a wall around her heart. On the verge of being an empty nester, she's decided to move on from her quaint little town and asks her friend Mitch for his help with some home-improvement projects to get her house ready to sell. Mitch Malone is known for being the life of every party, but mostly for the attire he wears to the local Renaissance Faire: a kilt (and not much else) which...
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