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Fat Cat by Brande Robin
Cat, short for Catherine, just can't let go of comments made by her middle school best friend, Matt. With the science fair looming, Cat is determined to beat Matt. Only telling one friend, Cat's personal experiemnt begins. 20 days of not technology and a diet of only what early man ate. Eating no junk or processed food Cat discovered a new person inside her 'fat suit'. |
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Hate List by Jennifer Brown
'But I didn't mean for anyone to die! I didn't know he was goiong to do it.' Even though he was my boyfriend I had no idea what was in his head. I know it appears I am guilty. I probably shouldn't have made the comments about Christy, but I also got shot. Please believe me....... |
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After by Amy Efaw
They keep telling me - the police and authorities - that 'It' is mine. I don't know, I'm confused. I would never have had a baby. That would have messed up my plans for an athletic scholarship. But why am I in handcuff....I feel weak....Where is my mother???? Surely I will be out of this juvenile center and back in school by tomorrow. After all I am an honor student and soccer standout on the way to a great college career. Why are people staring and talking about me??
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The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
So I took a summer job at the morgue, partly to irritate my parents, but ended up stumbling on a covered up crime, killing a man and getting my little brothe kidnapped. How am I going to explain all this to the police much less my vacationing parents? |
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If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Mia has a loving famly, is a gifted musician and has an adoring rocker boyfriend. Now she has a life changing deision. Mia spends one day deciding her fuure - whether to join her family or move on to an unforseen, heartbreaking future.
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King of the Screwups by K. L. Going
Try not to be popular!! With a gorgeous past-model for amother and a rich business man for a dad, Liam Geller knows how to be popular. When Liam again disappoints his father he finds himself living with his uncle, in a trailor - of all places! This is not anything like the plush apartment his father banned him from. Liam has to enroll in a small town high school for his senior year. Liam wants desperately to be a serious Geel t impress his dad, get back in his dad's good graces to enjoy his last year of high school in his elite high school. Liam just can't be unpopular........
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Muchacho by Louanne Johnson
Eddie Corazon wonders why don't they (the school system) teach you how to make somebody really love you, turn off that voice in your head and how to talk with your dad without both of you getting so mad. You know- real life 'stuff'.
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Hold Still by Nina LaCour
After 'losing' my only and best friend how do I make new friends, have a boy friend and act normal?
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Flash Burnout by L. K. Madigan
Photography is my life or is it my hobby or just a class. Anyway I enjoy being the class clown but between my girl friend, Shannon, and fellow photographer
friend, Marissa, who do I help or hang with. Shannon loves me but Marissa needs me. Ahh, the decisions of a teenage boy.
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Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
Matt remembers a boy, an Iraqui boy he felt sorry for, that Matt befriended and was not dead. Laying in his howpital bed with a purple heart on his chest, Matt can only remember the boy flying in the air. What happened to the boy? Some memories are not worth remembering.
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We Were Here by Matt de la Pena
I cannot believe I am standing in this group home. What do they expect me to learn in here I already don't know on the outside? The judge says I have to write a journal while in the home. After what I did I just want to get to Mexico to forget my mother, my brother and myself for what I did to tear apart the family.
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Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Was it because Grace was bitten by a wolf that she feels this kinship with the wolf at the edge of the woods? Ar the wolves what they appear to be? And why is Grace drawn toward the wolf lurking near her homw as if it is knowlingly watching or is he guarding her. The wolf with the yellow eyes - what or who is he?
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If I Grow Up by Todde Strasser
Everyone grows up, but not in the projects. My teacher says I am smart and might qualify to go to the better school. He says it is a way out of the projects and gangs. I might do that......to have a way out. But, does anyone make it out?? |
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The Chosen One by Carol Lunch Williams
Kyra has never questioned that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, until she sneaks to the county mobile library. There she reads 'forbidden' books about the outside world. After she is 'Chosen', at 13 years to be her uncle's mate Kyra must make a decision affecting not only her life but the lives of her family.
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Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Alen Zadoff
THat's right I can't have food, girls, and some other things. You see, well if you could see me you would immediately turln your head, avert your eyes, or worse - ignore my second huge in high school size. Large, my skinny fashion conscious sister calls me. Well, I do accomplish one 'large' action this school year - then make a decision. Read more about me in the book.
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