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Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
62) Ttfn
Author
Publisher
Amulet
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away.
63) Tackling Dad
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When Cassie tries out for the middle school football team, she faces unexpected opposition from her father, a former professional football player.
65) Rats saw God
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.
66) Alphas: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Skye Hamilton, invited to attend the exclusive Alphas-only boarding school, must gird herself for the intense competition between young members of the country's best and brightest.
67) Catalyst
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
68) Busted
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Interweaves stories of students at a high school with a "zero-tolerance" policy as they get caught doing things they are pretty sure are wrong, from drinking and having sex during a senior ski trip, to organizing a gambling ring, to bullying freshmen, to honor students behaving dishonorably.
71) November blues
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007], c2002
Language
English
Description
Cindy Gibson, an African-American teenager struggling with her mother's neglect and her mother's boyfriend's emotional abuse, must find strength she did not know she had when the boy she thought would be her savior begins beating her.
73) L8r, g8r
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another about their day-to-day experiences as they consider college, sex, the importance of prom, and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.
75) Stoner & Spaz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Language
English
Description
A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.
77) Buffalo Brenda
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna organize an underground newspaper and then provide a live buffalo as a mascot for the football team.
80) 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.
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