Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues

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The A-List (1st in Series)

Zoey Dean

KEYNOTE For the readers of Gossip Girl, here is a scandalous and juicy new series about the lives of rich and famous teens in Beverly Hills. DESCRIPTION Following in the footsteps of Gossip Girl, The Princess Diaries, and Sex in the C...

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Published: Sep 2003

Startled by His Furry Shorts (Confess...

Louise Rennison

On the rack of romance. And also in the oven of luuurve. Woe is Georgia: Dave the Laugh has declared his love for her (at least she thinks he was talking about her), and she has finally given Masimo an ultimatum to be her one and o...

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Published: May 2007

Places I Never Meant To Be: Original ...

Judy Blume

'What effect does [the climate of censorship] have on a writer?....IIt's chilling.IIt's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors....so I began to speak out...

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Published: Jun 2001

Marie, Dancing

Carolyn Meyer

Marie van Goethem, a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer in the Paris Opera, has led a life of hardship and poverty. For her, dancing is the only joy to counter the pain inflicted by hunger, her mother's drinking, and her selfish older si...

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Published: May 2007

Ghost Boy

Iain Lawrence

Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. IIt's been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus s...

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Published: Mar 2002

So Much to Live for (Dawn Rochelle No...

Lurlene McDaniel

Dawn Rochelle is fifteen, and the leukemia she's been fighting for the past two years is in remission again, after a successful bone marrow transplant from her brother. This summer Dawn has agreed to work as a camp counselor for youn...

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Published: Sep 2003

The Beast

Walter Dean Myers

17-year-old Anthony 'Spoon' Witherspoon is returning to Harlem after 7 months at an exclusive prep school. He never wanted to leave the city in the first place - especially not to walk the hallowed halls of a mostly white New England ...

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Published: May 2005

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

The first ten lies they tell you in high school."Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense ...

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Published: May 2006

Princess in Training (Princess Diarie...

Meg Cabot

IIt's an all new school year for Princess Mia, with all new classes, all new challenges . . . and all new worries. With a baby brother at home who won't stop crying and a potential eco-disaster in her native land that has all of Europ...

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Published: Jun 2008

The Thief Lord

Cornelia Caroline Funke

Two brothers, Prosper and Bo, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's 'Thief Lord.' Reprint. 250...

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Published: Oct 2003

Glass

Ellen Hopkins

Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be...

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Published: Apr 2009

Amanda/Miranda

Richard Peck

Your future lies beyond a mountain of ice, where you will die, and live again.' The wisewoman's prophecy disturbs Miranda, a maidservant who bears an uncanny resemblance to her rich and arrogant mistress, Amanda Whitwell. Thrust into ...

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Published: Jun 2001

The Wave (Laurel-Leaf contemporary fi...

Todd Strasser

The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classro...

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Published: Sep 1981

Armageddon Summer

Jane Yolen

The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that's what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. That's why Marina and Jed and their parents have joined the rest of the Reverend's flock at a mountain retreat to await t...

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Published: Jul 1999

Rumors: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)

Anna Godbersen

After bidding good-bye to New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise. All eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous sister, Diana, now the family's only ho...

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Published: Feb 2009

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest v...

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Published: Oct 2005

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Bo...

Kate Brian

Boys. 7 of them, to be exact.Megan is used to moving from place to place -- it's typical for an army brat. But she drew the line at South Korea. She insists on staying in the States to finish her last two years of high school. So her ...

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Published: Sep 2006

Envy: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)

Anna Godbersen

Jealous whispers. Old rivalries. New betrayals. Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin her sister Diana's sid...

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Published: Oct 2009

Gossip Girl #1 (Gossip Girl Series)

Cecily Von Ziegesar

lder teens and adult readers can't get enough of Gossip Girl, the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut in the bestselling Gossip Girl and titillated readers in the juicy sequel, You Know You Love Me. Now in All I Want Is Everyt...

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Published: Jan 2002

Splendor: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)

Anna Godbersen

New beginnings.Shocking revelations.Unexpected endings.A spring turns into summer, Elizabeth relishes her new role as a young wife, while her sister, Diana, searches for adventure abroad. But when a surprising clue about their father'...

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Published: Jul 2010

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson

The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Au Pairs

Melissa de La Cruz

Three girls with three agendas and the ultimate destination: the Hamptons.Summer in the city? Way overrated. Everybody who's anybody in New York City summers in the Hamptons. Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui all want a piece of the action, all...

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Published: May 2005

Adios to My Old Life

Caridad Ferrer

Tiring of unpromising party and holiday jobs while longing for fame, seventeen-year-old Latina singer and guitarist Ali Montero competes in a Latin superstar contest and finds herself overwhelmed by an ensuing maelstrom of glitzy ward...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

Heather Vogel Frederick

The book clubis about to geta makeover....Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the new book club ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Perfect

Ellen Hopkins

What would you give up to be perfect? Four teens find out in the New York Times bestselling companion to Impulse.Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they'd rather be. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfe...

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Published: Dec 2013

Tall Cool One (A-List, No. 4)

Zoey Dean

all Cool One is the fourth novel in this witty and risqu series that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. New York blueblood Anna Percy came to L.A. to learn how to have a good time. Now s...

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Published: Apr 2005

The Spiffiest Giant in Town

Julia Donaldson

When George the giant spies a shop full of wonderful clothes, he decides to treat himself to a new outfit. He puts on his new shirt, pants, shoes, and tie, and is immediately transformed from the scruffiest giant in town to the ...

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Published: Feb 2005

Whistle for Willie Board Book

Ezra Jack Keats

When Whistle for Willie was first published in 1964, The New York Times wrote Mr. Keats' illustrations boldly, colorfully capture the child, his city world. and the shimmering heat of a summer's day. Now the story of Peter, who longs...

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Published: Feb 1977

Anastasia Absolutely

Lois Lowry

Anastasia finds herself in another embarrassing mess when she accidentally puts the bag of her dog's droppings in the mailbox instead of her mother's packages, and things get worse when the police investigate the mailbox. Reprin...

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Published: Mar 1997

Loser

Jerry Spinelli

Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over ...

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Published: Aug 2003
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