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Melody Burning

Henry Holt and Co.
Beresford doesn’t remember much about his past or how he came to live in the chutes and crawl spaces of the posh high-rise that shares his name. But when rock...
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Square Fish
The red words painted on the trailer caused quite a buzz around town and before an hour was up, half of Antler was standing in line with two dollars clutched...
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The Miles Between

Square Fish
Four friends take an unusual road trip where nothing may be as it seems.
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The Second Base Club

Henry Holt and Co.
Elroy’s got one thing on his mind: girls. In an effort to get to second base, he offers to tutor the hot new girl in math, forms a band with his two best...
  
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Guitar Boy

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
Travis Tacey doesn’t have it easy: his mom’s in the hospital suffering from brain trauma after a terrible car accident, and his father has lost his good sense...
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Smack

Square Fish
Smack is a timely and penetrating novel about the ecstasies and horrors of heroin use. Smack is the 1996 winner of the Carnegie Medal in Literature....
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Harmonic Feedback

Henry Holt and Co.
Sixteen-year-old, music- and sound design-obsessed Drea doesn’t have friends. She has, as she’s often reminded, issues. Drea’s mom and a rotating band of...
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Pedro and Me
Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned

Square Fish
Pedro Zamora changed lives.When the HIV-positive AIDS educator appeared on MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco, he taught millions of viewers about being gay...
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A Room on Lorelei Street

Square Fish
Can seventeen-year-old Zoe make it on her own?
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Larry and the Meaning of Life

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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Make Lemonade

Square Fish
An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices Viginia Euwer Wolff’s groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of...
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Why Do You Cry?
Not a Sob Story

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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After the Death of Anna Gonzales

Henry Holt and Co.
A powerful look at the effects of one girl’s suicide on her high school "I can feel The whispering of the hallway walls Growing louder as the groups...
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What Are You?
Voices of Mixed-Race Young People

Henry Holt and Co.
In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and...
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The Teddy Bear

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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Vote for Larry

Square Fish
Larry is not your parents’ politician, that’s for sure.
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Guy-Write
What Every Guy Writer Needs to Know

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
It’s no secret that many guys dread writing assignments. But writing doesn’t have to be “boring nerd-work.” Writing is about power; it’s about fun; it’s about...
  
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Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous

Henry Holt and Co.
Sixteen-year-old Sophie Nicolaides was practically raised in the kitchen of her family’s Italian-Greek restaurant, Taverna Ristorante. When her best friend,...