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Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice Jim Heynen Henry Holt and Co. In this truly modern teenage love story, spirituality and sensuality burn equally bright. "I have these two characters I hide behind. The real one is Cosmos...

Hardcover : $15.95 Buy	Up a Creek Laura E. Williams Henry Holt and Co. A thoughtful coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to connect with her eccentric mother. "I picked up my poster, raising it so everyone could...

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The Gospel According to Larry

Janet Tashjian Henry Holt and Co.

After creating a controversial and hugely popular website, teenager Josh Swensen becomes trapped inside his brilliant creation and must find a way to remain...

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Uncle Daddy

Ralph Fletcher Henry Holt and Co.

Does Rivers have room in his life for two very different fathers? "The truth is Uncle Daddy isn't either my father or my uncle. He's actually Mom's uncle. I...

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Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Love, Sara Mary Beth Lundgren Henry Holt and Co. "From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert: My life, from the last day of summer vacation, to almost spring of my Junior year. No matter what you might...

Trade Paperback : $5.95 Buy	The Great Peace March Holly Near; Paintings by Lisa Desimini Henry Holt and Co. A song inspired by an actual peace march, this work celebrates peace and the courage to make it real.

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The Adventures of Blue Avenger

Norma Howe Henry Holt and Co.

These are big questions to discuss in a young-adult novel, but they are only a small part of what Norma Howe tackles in The Adventures of Blue Avenger. How did...

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Baby Blue

Michelle D. Kwasney Henry Holt and Co.

We sat at the kitchen table, across from each other. In the same spots we sat for dinner up till a month ago. The shadows on the table looked like prison bars...

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Letting Go of Bobby James

Or How I Found My Self of Steam

Valerie Hobbs Frances Foster Books

A heartwarming journey to self-discovery When sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker, known as Jody, is abandoned at a gas station by her husband after he hits...

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Taking Care of Moses

Barbara O'Connor Frances Foster Books

Who left the baby at the Rock of Ages Baptist Church? Randall Mackey has a secret. He knows who left the baby on the steps of the Rock of Ages Baptist...

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Under the Same Sky

Cynthia DeFelice Square Fish

A teenager discovers racism and romance on his father’s farm For his fourteenth birthday, Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike that costs nearly a thousand...

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Stuck on Earth

David Klass Frances Foster Books

Ketchvar III’s mission is simple: travel to Planet Earth, inhabit the body of an average teenager, and determine if the human race should be annihilated. And...

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Larry and the Meaning of Life

Janet Tashjian Henry Holt and Co.

Josh Swensen (otherwise known as Larry) can’t seem to get off the couch. His usual overactive imagination and save-the-world mindset have all but vanished, and...

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Hurt Go Happy

Ginny Rorby Starscape

Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she’s been deaf since the age of six, Joey’s mother has never allowed her to...

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The Teddy Bear

David McPhail; illustrations by David McPhail Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks

The little boy and his teddy bear were always together. Every night, when the little boy went to sleep, his teddy bear was right there next to him. When...

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Hardcover : $16.00 Buy	The Kissing Diary Judith Caseley Frances Foster Books Twelve-year-old Rosie Goldglitt is a never-been-kissed, hopeless romantic. Her mother has a new boyfriend. So why can’t Rosie attract the attentions of the...

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Ben and the Sudden Too-Big Family

Colby Rodowsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Ben’s philosophy of life is that there are two categories of things that happen, the all-right stuff and the not-all-right stuff. Ben has always lived with...

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Why Do You Cry?

Not a Sob Story

Kate Klise; illustrations by M. Sarah Klise Henry Holt and Co.

Crying is just for babies—right? In a starred review, Publishers Weekly said of Kate and M. Sarah Klise’s first picture book, Shall I Knit You A Hat?: “The...

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Defect

Will Weaver Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Maybe it was bad karma. Maybe it was just bad luck. Whatever the reason, fifteen-year-old David was born defective. His bug eyes, pinched face, and hearing...

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Finding Stinko

Michael de Guzman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Newboy hasn’t spoken in three years. One morning he opened his mouth and nothing came out. He doesn’t know why he stopped talking, but what he does know is...

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The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

Claudia Mills Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams’s fifth-grade class who doesn’t mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved...

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See No Evil

Jamila Gavin Farrar, Straus and Giroux

This spellbinding haunted-house story takes place within the confines of a grand London mansion, a place where shadowy characters are always coming and going,...

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Big Slick

Eric Luper Farrar, Straus and Giroux

All in all, sixteen-year-old Andrew Lang has been dealt a pretty good hand in life. Sure, he has to spend his afternoons slaving away in the hellhole that is...

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Trade Paperback : $11.99 Buy	Things You Either Hate or Love Brigid Lowry St. Martin's Griffin Fifteen-year-old Georgia has to get to the Natural Affinity concert. She's obsessed with the lead singer, Jakob, and will do anything it takes to see him...

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