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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The violence and terror of ethnic cleansing against Muslims forces high schooler Irena Zaric and her family to flee Sarajevo in search of safety across the river, and she comes into even closer contact with war when a former assistant principal employs her as a sniper.
2) Kicked out
Author
Publisher
Orca Book
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dime has difficulty adjusting to her parents' rules.
6) Starstruck
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
English
Description
Squidge promises Lia that he will always be open and honest with her; but when a film crew arrives in town and he is offered a role opposite movie star Savannah, things get a little complicated.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Joon, a Korean immigrant, makes the decision to leave her family after her father's infidelity and abandonment leaves her mother emotionally catatonic, but life as a homeless teenager leads Joon to shelters, an escort club, and addictions.
9) Bloom
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Lauren seems to have the perfect life with good friends, decent grades, and a great looking boyfriend; but when she meets Evan Kirkland, Lauren realizes she needs to make a choice in her life before one is made for her.
12) After
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.
14) Ghost town
Author
Series
Beacon Street Girls volume 11
Publisher
B*tween
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The Beacon Street Girls are headed for a blast of winter fun at a super-lux resort in Montana. But will the dream vacation turn into a nightmare.
15) Panama: a novel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old Ohio girl, longing for adventure, gets her wish when she moves to Panama with her father who has been hired to work on the Panama Canal, and meets Federico, an aristocrat toiling as a digger.
16) The small rain
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1984, c1945
Language
English
Description
Katherine Forrester is sent to a very restrictive private school after the death of her pianist mother, from which she emerges to study piano in New York as a protege of the great master who taught her mother.
17) Finding Nouf
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The family of sixteen-year-old Nouf calls upon desert guide Nayir ash-Sharqi to investigate her disappearance; however, when her body is found in the desert and it is determined she died from drowning, Nayir teams up with lab worker Katya Hijazi to find out what really happened.
19) Mathilda Savitch
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of her older sister, Mathilda is determined to help her grief-stricken parents and starts to investigate her sister's life, but sorting through secret possessions reveals a plot reminiscent of an ancient myth that urges Mathilda to leave everything behind to discover the truth.
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