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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.
2) Identical
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
223 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
4) Doll bones
Author
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
6) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
9) Dig
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
10) Falling
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Matt's life has been turned upside-down, first when the brother he idolizes turns to drugs, then when a visit to a chat room leads him to a classmate, Katie, who he likes very much but cannot trust with his family secret.
11) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
663 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
12) Dear Justyce
Author
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Language
English
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon, the son of another astronaut.
15) Hothead: a novel
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
135 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Connor Sullivan, All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper and problems at home, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrus, Connor must make a change.
16) Thieving weasels
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just when Skip O'Rourke thinks he's finally free of his con-artist family, they drag him back to Long Island for one last scam ... but nothing about this con is what it seems"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history...
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history...
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