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761) Boy toy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
762) 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.
763) Say the word
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of her estranged mother, who left Ohio years ago to live with her lesbian partner in New York City, seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher's life is transformed by revelations about her family, her best friend, and herself.
764) Frostbite
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
765) Before I fall
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
766) DupliKate: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already overburdened with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.
767) Ask me no questions
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
768) Headlong
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Lily opens herself to new possibilities when, despite warnings, she becomes friends with "ghetto girl" Hazel, a new student at the private Vaughn School which Lily, following in her elitist mother's footsteps, has attended since preschool.
769) The heartbreakers
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When three high school friends experience breakups on the same night, a fourth writes "The Break up Code," which all agree to follow as they try to get over the bad relationships and get back in touch with themselves and one another.
770) Invisible lines
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Coming from a poor, single-parent family, seventh-grader Trevor must rely on his intelligence, artistic ability, quick wit, and soccer prowess to win friends at his new Washington, D.C. school, but popular and rich Xander seems determined to cause him trouble.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Jumbo, Texas, thirteen-year-old Merilee, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to live a "very ordered existence," but disruptions begin when a boy and his father arrive in town and the youngster makes himself a part of the family.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Billy Twitters' mother follows through on her threat to buy him a blue whale if he refuses to obey, he finds himself the owner of an enormous pet that he must take with him everywhere, which does not make him popular at school.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Lexie Livingstone, a vampire-human hybrid living in New York City and trying to gain mortality, faces typical ninth grade dramas like boys and school politics, as well as not-so-typical obstacles like obnoxious pixie houseguests.
774) Bliss
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.
775) After ever after
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
776) Destroy all cars
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Through assignments for English class, seventeen-year-old James Hoff rants against consumerism and his classmates' apathy, puzzles over his feelings for his ex-girlfriend, and expresses disdain for his emotionally-distant parents.
777) Efrain's secret
Author
Publisher
A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ambitious high school senior and honor student Efrain Rodriguez makes some questionable choices in pursuit of his dream to escape the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League college.
778) Crackback
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mark Deavecca, cast into the alien world of private school, finds himself losing his grip on reality, and when his roommate--who it was rumored was having an affair with the headmaster's wife--is found dead in their room, he has the presence of mind to call in retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian for help.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old evil genius, Oliver, uses his great brain to become the third richest person in the world, and finds that overthrowing foreign dictators is easier than getting the kids in his middle school to vote him class president.
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