Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues

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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Rachel Cohn

NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Michael Cera (Juno and Superbad) and Kat Dennings (The 40 Year-Old Virgin)! Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adven...

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Published: Aug 2007

Bullyville

Francine Prose

My father was killed on 9/11. Everybody in town knows we lost him forever when the North Tower collapsed. What they don't know is that he was gone long before that day. What they don't know is that a scholarship to exclusive ...

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Published: Aug 2008

Fly on the Wall

E. Lockhart

At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is "different" and everyone is "special," Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She's the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so sh...

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Published: Nov 2007

Esperanza Rising

Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, & servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depre...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2002

Before I Die

Jenny Downham

This intensely moving story is now available in paperback.Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Di...

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Published: May 2009

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Joyce Carol Oates

Big Mouth No I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won't It anyone believe me? Ugly Girl All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what I'd heard in the cafeter...

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Published: May 2003

Football Fugitive (Matt Christopher S...

Matt Christopher

Representing a pro football player whom his son admires brings a lawyer closer to his young son.

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Published: Sep 1988

The Hockey Machine (Matt Christopher ...

Matt Christopher

Talented hockey player Steve Crandell is kidnapped by a wealthy boy who wants Steve to play center on his professional junior team, and soon Steve realizes he must play to survive. Reprint. AB.

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Published: Sep 1992

Wingman On Ice (Matt Christopher Spor...

Matt Christopher

A young boy determines to polish his hockey games before using his Christmas present -- a new stick.

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Published: Sep 1993

Ice Magic (Matt Christopher Sports Se...

Matthew F. Christopher

The twins' toy hockey game seems to be magic as it plays games identical to the real ones before they even happen.

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Published: Sep 1987

First Day Jitters

Julie Danneberg

Sarah Jane is worried about going to a new school. She refuses to get out of bed because she keeps imagining all the bad things that can happen. Readers will understand and sympathize with Sarah's feelings and laugh when they discover...

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Published: Mar 2000

The Secret Language of Girls

Frances O'Roark Dowell

In the old days, when Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being.Eleven-year-old Kate Faber wishes she could talk to her best friend, Ma...

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Published: Sep 2005

Erandi's Braids

Antonio Madrigal

The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies w...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2001

Guess How Much I Love You

Sam McBratney

Guess how much I love you,' says Little Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. But Big Nutbrown Hare, who can reach farther and hop higher, loves hi...

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Published: Oct 2008

Rainbow Fish to the Rescue!

Marcus Pfister

Although his friends want to ignore the new striped fish in their midst, Rainbow Fish must decide whether to help him when a shark attacks.

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Published: Jan 1999

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protec...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

Paradise Lost (Private, Book 9)

Kate Brian

Paradise awaits.... Now that Cheyenne's murderer has been revealed and Reed knows the truth about who's been stalking her, she's ready to leave the heartache and turmoil of last semester behind. And what better way to recover than a f...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2009

Face-Off

Matt Christopher

Although he loves the game, a young hockey player discovers that as he plays he is handicapped by his fear of the puck.

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Published: Sep 1989

A-List #6, The: Some Like It Hot: An ...

Zoey Dean

IIt's prom season, and no town does prom like Tinsel Town. Ben is back for the summer - just in time to be Anna's prom date. But his family has a house guest who's so hot, she's bound to burn up their perfect plans. Adam finds out a s...

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Published: Apr 2006

Skinny-dipping (Au Pairs)

Melissa de La Cruz

Same Hamptons,all new gamesNot-so-poor-anymore Eliza has traded babysitting for velvet-rope-sitting. And Jacqui, in an odd twist, is doing all the babysitting because Mara's up every night doing her best second-rate party girl impress...

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Published: May 2006

American Beauty: An A-List Novel (A-L...

Zoey Dean

American Beauty is the seventh guilty pleasure in this witty and risqu#142; series that takes readers behind the scenes of the Hollywood glitterati. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, The A-List and its bestsel...

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Published: Sep 2006

Green Angel

Alice Hoffman

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, ...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Declaration

Gemma Malley

In the year 2140, it is illegal to be young.Children are all but extinct.The world is a better place.Longevity drugs are a fountain of youth. Sign the Declaration, agree not to have children and you too can live forever. Refuse, and y...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2008

The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Fal...

Celia Thomson

Chloe King is a normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn't so normal after all. There's the heightened n...

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Published: Jun 2011

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Gabrielle Zevin

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss.She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps.She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.She certainl...

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Published: Jun 2009

The Future of Us

Jay Asher

What if you could see how your life would unfold--just by clicking a button?brBRIt's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2012

My Weird School #20: Mr. Louie Is Scr...

Dan Gutman

IIt's Valentine's Day! And Mr. Louie, the hippie crossing guard, put a love potion in the water fountain. Now teachers are flirting with each other! Girls are asking boys out on dates! Will A.J. have to kiss Andrea? Not if he can hel...

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Published: Dec 2007

Look Both Ways (The Midnight Twins)

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Meredith and Mallory Brynn, two identical mirror twins born on either side of midnight, are finally coming to terms with their special gifts: Meredith to see into the past, Mallory to see into the future. But they never expect that t...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2009

Henry And Mudge And Annies Good Move

Cynthia Rylant

In Henry and Mudge's eighteenth adventure, Henry's cousin Annie is moving -- right next door to Henry! Annie likes Henry and Mudge, but she's nervous about leaving her friends, and about changing schools, and about what might happen ...

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Published: Jan 2000

Homeboyz

Alan Lawrence Sitomer

When Teddy Anderson's little sister Tina is gunned down randomly in a drive-by shooting, the gangstas who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deteriorating neighborhood dismiss the incident as just another case of RP, RT...

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Published: Dec 2008
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