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Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Formats
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Formats
Description
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen year old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save her. Book #2
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Description
In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.
64) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Four years after her brother, Simon, drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
68) Cages
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Kit never means to steal the bracelet; it is just a dumb mistake. But when she is caught Kit is sentenced to twenty hours of volunteer work at the humane society. Kit knows how it feels to be stuck in a cage like those animals and soon she begins to learn that the key to her own cage is right in front of her.
Author
Series
Tillerman family volume 7
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c.1989
Edition
1st
Description
Dicey struggles to make a go of a boatbuilding business while facing family concerns, romantic problems, and the uncertainties of a drifter who offers to help her in her work.
70) Cut
Author
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
72) Sons of Liberty
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st Hyperion Paperback ed.
Description
No one knows the American Revolution better than Rock Kindle. Rock takes pride in his patriotic forefathers, and his belief that he himself could brave any combat helps him through the bad times, when Rock's father wages small wars on the rest of the family.
73) Heaven
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.
74) The pigman
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Description
A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.
Author
Formats
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--
77) Kick
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open"--
Author
Series
Touch novels volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Before Camelia and Ben can fully grasp the powerful bond brought about by their psychometry, an unresolved family tragedy resurfaces in Camelia's life, irrevocably changing everything she cares about.
80) Girlhearts
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver's life is turned upside-down when her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.
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