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102) Be-liev-a-rex-ic
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of his sister's murder, Leo, tormented by his mother's insane accusations and his own waking nightmares, kidnaps a wealthy girl intending to kill her, but instead their long night together helps them both face their futures.
104) Wild dreamers
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
Author
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Sammy tries to come to terms with several dificult situations including the death of his dog, the divorce of his aunt and uncle, the suicide of his best friend's brother, coping with his terminally ill grandmother, and cheating on a school test.
107) From the lighthouse
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1938, thirteen-year-old Louise Bloom tries to figure out what caused her mother to leave her, her three brothers, their father, and the lighthouse on the Hudson River that they call home.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Having been stood up for the prom the previous year, high school junior Nicolette works on a top ten list of things to do with her unworn dress while also trying to help her divorced parents and take care of her relationships with her best friend and with potential boyfriends.
109) Because of the sun
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Dani struggles with how to process the ambiguous grief she feels in the aftermath of her mother's death after moving to New Mexico with an aunt she never met.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother who suddenly left when he was ten.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Vera, eager to start college and escape the celebrity her family has endured since her twin's disappearance twelve years earlier, finds her world turned upside-down again when Ava returns.
When her twin sister, Ava, disappeared one Halloween night, Vera Rivers's childhood became a blur of theories, tips, and leads, but never any answers. The case made headlines, shocked Vera's Northern California community, and turned her family...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells, in two voices, of events leading up to a 1980 incident in which fourteen-year-old Jason, a gay youth surviving on the streets as a prostitute, and seventeen-year-old Doug, a hate-filled punk rocker, have a fateful meeting in a Los Angeles alley.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening--choices.
115) The moonlit vine
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told with interposed historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
116) Wander in the dark
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel’s birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect life Marcel inherited when their father left Amir’s mother to start a new family with Marcel’s mom. But Chloe is hot enough for Amir to forget that for one night. Does she want to hook up? Or is she trying to meddle in the estranged brothers’ messy family drama? Amir can’t tell. He doesn’t...
117) One for the Murphys
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"A moving debut novel about a foster child learning to open her heart to a family's love Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, the Murphys...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
To avoid his alcoholic mother's problems, Nick, seventeen, stays with his aunt's family near the Oregon coast, where he works at his uncle's car wash and falls into a complicated relationship.
Nick's mom is a distinguished professor, a bestselling author... and a serious alcoholic. To get a break from his stressful home life before senior year, he heads for a summer in Seaside, Oregon, a sleepy beach town where he can chill out, meet girls, and work...
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