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1) Hero
Author
Description
After years of abuse from his mother and neglect from his father, ninth-grader Sean Parker is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches Sean that he can take control of his own life.
Author
Publisher
Monster Ivy Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Description
"Gripping and hard to put down." - Karin, Monster Ivy Book Club Reviewer "Although the subject of child abuse is heartbreaking, the author manages to weave a thread of optimism and hope through the misery." - Linda, Reviewer "Wowza! I finished in 24 hours." - Toni, Reviewer There's safety in silence... Fifteen-year-old Cora Snow has a secret only her "Daddy" and her journal know about. Aside from Daddy, the only people Cora talks to are her...
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Description
Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you. It began with me a year ago this past July. A few weeks after my fourteenth birthday. When Freaky Green Eyes came into my heart. When her parents separate, Franky Pierson has no trouble deciding whose side she's on. After all, her mother is the one who chose to leave. And when...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man. Safira, her co-wife, juggles envy and empathy for this new bride with disappointment in the...
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