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2) Born to rock
Author
Language
English
Description
Leo Caraway, president of the Young Republicans and future Harvard alumnus, is horrified to discover that his father is none other than the world famous and notorious punk rock leader King Maggot.
4) Freak
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
5) Criss cross
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
7) Incantation
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
8) Avalon High
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. Told in the form of free-verse poems.
10) Skin again
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Children note that skin color is not as important as what is inside a person for determing who a person really is.
11) Fairest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unusual looking woman with a magical voice learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.
12) The ugly pumpkin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A lonely, oddly-shaped pumpkin is sad that no one chose him for Halloween, but by Thanksgiving he has discovered where he belongs.
13) Burned
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
14) Evil genius
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Language
English
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
15) The Quail Club
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fifth grader Oy wants to do a Thai dance at the school talent show until Liliandra threatens to kick her out of their club if they do not perform an a skit together.
16) Write naked
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Victor finds an old Royal typewriter at a yard sale and takes it to his uncle's isolated cabin in the Vermont woods to attempt to write, he meets up with an unusual girl, and together they explore their concerns about the world, themselves, and each other.
17) Whip it
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
19) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Jay and Ray Grayson learn about friendship, honesty, and themselves after taking advantage of a clerical oversight in which their new school thinks there is only one Grayson boy.
20) Boy proof
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.
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