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61) Kalpana's dream
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Neema's struggle to complete an essay on the topic "Who Am I" for her freshman English class is complicated by the arrival of Kampala, her Indian great-grandmother who has come to Australia chasing her dream of flying, and although they do not speak the same language, the two find common ground in skateboarder Gull Oliver.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Theresa Anderson and Devon Hampton set out to beat the SAT in order to get into a top college; however, they must also deal with the reality of street violence that could keep them both from realizing their dream.
64) Nailed
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former headmistress of the school.
66) On the fringe
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A collection of eleven stories by various authors that explore the experiences of social outsiders in high school.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In this prequel to Candace Bushnell's "Sex and the City," Carrie Bradshaw is enjoying her senior year of high school and her intense relationship with the dashing Sebastian Kydd, until a friend's shocking betrayal threatens to ruin everything.
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.
69) Lemonade Mouth
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A disparate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band.
71) Alice on her way
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her ex-boyfriend, and getting a driver's license.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As Haley's junior year at Hillsdale High comes to a close, the reader helps her to make decisions about prom and other activities, as well as what to do during the summer to prepare for her all-important senior year and the rest of her life.
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As Haley's first spring break from Hillsdale High comes to an end, she continues to try to find her place there, while the reader's choices help her to select boyfriends, sports, and other activities, as well as how to juggle her busy schedule.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As Haley's junior year at Hillsdale High begins, the reader helps her to make critical decisions about which activities will look best on her high school transcripts when she applies to colleges, as well as which will help her social life.
76) Finding Hattie
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world.
78) Flyers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
While filming a movie for a school project, Gabe and his friends discover mysterious activities at a supposedly vacant house.
79) God of beer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
To complete a class assignment at his high school in rural Vermont, Kyle and his friends Quake and Diana do a social protest project involving alcohol.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillian Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.
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