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8) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
10) Something girl
Author
Publisher
Orca Book
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sophie lived in constant fear of her father, who beat her up on a regular basis, until one day when the beating was so severe it sent her to the hospital.
13) Doppelganger
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When a sixteen year old member of a race of shapeshifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1998
Language
English
Description
A grouchy old man develops a strong bond with a troubled boy sent to live with him during the London Blitz, teaching him to read and write and encouraging a love of drawing, and finds himself fighting to keep him when his mother tries to take him back.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
At the end of high school, Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar, but Reeve is as much trouble as she claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and already precarious relationship with her sister.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on.
17) Tadpole
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
19) Chesapeake blue
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seth Quinn returns to St. Christopher a successful painter and finds a love interest in Dru Whitcomb Banks until his past comes back to haunt him.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
After Lulu and Merry's mother is killed in a drunken rage by their father, who is sent to prison, they become orphans and are sent to a terrifying group home where they cling to each other for support, but thirty years later, the girls have yet to come to terms with the events and each has a different view of their incarcerated father.
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