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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Alexie, Sherman, 1966- TEEN ALEXIE |
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Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson. Moon called. Volume one
Mercy Thompson's next-door neighbor is a werewolf, her former boss is a gremlin, and she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire, but Mercy isn't exactly normal herself. Briggs, Patricia. FIC BRIGGS |
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The nature of Jade
Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo. Caletti, Deb. TEEN CALETTI |
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Don't breathe a word
Joy Delamere is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally-abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a "street family" that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had. Cupala, Holly. TEEN CUPALA |
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The clearing
Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the country in Washington to live with her great-aunt, and there she discovers a mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer of 1944. Davis, Heather, 1970- TEEN DAVIS |
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The body finder
High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who's terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target. Derting, Kimberly. TEEN DERTING |
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If I stay : a novel
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Oregonian Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death. Forman, Gayle. TEEN FORMAN |
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My not-so-still life
Artistic sixteen-year-old Vanessa has never tried to fit in, but counts the days until she reaches adulthood and all it brings, but when her first job introduces her to James, who leads her into new, sometimes risky situations, she wonders if she is ready to be grown up. Gallagher, Liz. TEEN GALLAGH |
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Project Sweet Life
When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been. Hartinger, Brent. TEEN HARTING |
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North of beautiful
Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob. Headley, Justina Chen, 1968- TEEN HEADLEY |