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Myracle, Lauren. Peace, Love, & Baby Ducks. 2009. (YA Fiction Myrac.L)
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.
Picoult, Jodi. The Tenth
Circle. 2006. (Fiction Picou.J)
Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's
also the light of her father, Daniel's life -- a straight-A student; a
pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her
father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a
single act of violence.
Qualey, Marsha.One
Night. 2002. (YA Fiction Quale.M)
Nineteen-year-old Kelly, ex-addict niece of a
nationally-renowned Minnesota
talk show host, has an unexpected adventure with the visiting prince of a
war-torn Eastern European country.
Reinhardt, Dana.How To
Build A House : A Novel. 2008. (YA Fiction Reinh.D)
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape
the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by
volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.
Scott, Elizabeth. Something,
Maybe. 2009. (YA Fiction Scott.E)
Seventeen-year-old high school student Hannah is
trying to lead a normal life--which means getting her secret crush to notice
her--despite the fact that both her parents are famous for their wild
lifestyles.
Sones, Sonya. One Of Those Hideous
Books Where The Mother Dies. 2004. (YA Fiction Sones.S)
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best
friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and
reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star
who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
Wittlinger, Ellen.Zigzag.
2003. (YA Fiction Wittl.E)
A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt
and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she
did not know she had.
Woodson, Jacqueline.After
Tupac & D Foster. 2008. (YA Fiction Woods.J)
In the New York City borough of Queens
in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as
together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Behind You. 2004. (YA Fiction Woods.J)
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that Miah is watching over them.
Zarr, Sara. Sweethearts :
A Novel. 2008. (YA Fiction Zarr.S)
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they
were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat
girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return
dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
Zevin, Gabrielle.Memoirs
Of A Teenage Amnesiac. 2007. (YA Fiction Zevin.G)
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no
memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her
life.
Compiled by Christie Chandler-Stahl
July, 2009
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