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1) Chains
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
2) Twisted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
3) Forge
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
4) Wintergirls
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
5) Prom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
6) Catalyst
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
7) Speak
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect of Melinda's freshman year in high school.
9) Fever, 1793
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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