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281) Jailbait
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Unpopular and lonely tenth-grader Andi builds a fantasy romantic life around her clandestine, sexual relationship with a man in his thirties.
282) The spectacular now
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
284) Hero-type
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is one of several reasons sixteen year old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity about his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he speaks out and encourages people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
285) Beautiful creatures
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
287) Off-color
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Fifteen year old Cameron living with her single mother in Brooklyn finds her search for identity further challenged when she discovers that she is the product of a biracial relationship.
288) For keeps
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.
290) Janes in love
Author
Publisher
Minx
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A group of friends who are all named Jane get together and try to make their small town beautiful by engaging in subversive art, and the main Jane wrestles with her affection for two different boys on Valentine's Day while she runs out of money for continuing her artwork.
291) The Wednesday wars
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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