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81) Foster's war
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the homefront.
84) Eclipse
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When Trina's father falls into a severe depression after losing his job and her mother becomes pregnant at forty-eight, Trina faces a difficult summer even with the help of her good friend Miranda.
85) Never enough
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon Pulse paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Loann admires and envies her older sister Claire's strength, popularity, and beauty, but as Loann begins to open up to new possibilities in herself, she discovers that Claire's all-consuming quest for perfection comes at a dangerous price.
86) Secret agent
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With help from his friends, New York City high school student Kyle Parker sets out to save his parents' marriage by trying to get his father's novel published.
88) Nobody's there
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
89) Every day after
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl fights to keep her mama out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression era Alabama"--
90) Exit strategy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
When his father's illness prompts their frequently moving family to settle down in a permanent home, twelve-year-old Ross, a kid famed for pranks at his previous schools, tries to master the art of being funny to secure his popularity.
91) Naming Maya
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.
92) Ruptured
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe navigates fear, grief, and hope for recovery about when her mother has a ruptured brain aneurysm while their family is on vacation, and right after her mother shares that she's planning to leave Phoebe's father"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
94) Farm team
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
95) Picture perfect
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.
96) Pearl
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who has ruined her life with drugs.
97) The lonely ones
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The stress of her father's job loss causes Fain to feel invisible at home and in her new school, but she escapes with the monsters of her imagination until a family crisis and a human friend cause her to reconsider.
98) The paper cowboy
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
100) Kicked out
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While his home life is unraveling, thirteen-year-old Ali organizes a charity soccer match to help his friend Aadam avoid deportation back to Syria.
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