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| Twenty Boy Summer
By Ockler, Sarah
2009-06 - Little, Brown Young Readers
0316051594 Check Our Catalog Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this debut novel explores what it truly means to love someone, what it means to grieve, and ultimately how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer. …More
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| Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series
By Feinstein, John
2009-08 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
0375856366 Check Our Catalog A bestselling author, journalist, and Edgar-Award winner delivers another high-stakes sports mystery, in which two teen reporters covering the World Series discover a few contradictions in the life story of a hot new pitcher. …More
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| The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch--And Me, Ruby Oliver
By Lockhart, E.
2009-07 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
0385904371 Check Our Catalog Ruby is back at Tate Prep, and it's her thirty-seventh week in the state of Noboyfriend. Her panic attacks are bad, her love life is even worse, and what's more: Noel is writing her notes, Jackson is giving her frogs, Gideon is helping her cook, and Finn is making her brownies. Rumors are flying, and Ruby's already-sucky reputation is heading downhill …More
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| Franny Parker
By McKinnon, Hannah Roberts
2009-05 - Farrar Straus Giroux
0374324697 Check Our Catalog Franny Parker's life revolves around her family, their farm, and their dusty Oklahoma town. Then the Dunns move in next door, harboring painful secrets. From the moment Franny meets Lucas, the two begin a friendship that introduces Franny to a larger world. …More
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| Intensely Alice
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
2009-06 - Atheneum Books
1416975519 Check Our Catalog Full of life--the good, the bad, and the heartbreaking--Naylor's latest Alice book reminds readers just how much can change in an instant, as Alice and her friends reunite for a funeral. …More
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| Mare's War
By Davis, Tanita S.
2009-06 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
0375957146 Check Our Catalog "Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past."
Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn't your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras, and insists that she's too young to be called Grandma. But somewhere on the road, Octavia and Tali discover there's more to Mare than what you see. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less-than-perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American battalion of the Women's Army Corps during World War II. …More
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| Tempo Change
By Hall, Barbara
2009-06 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
0385905858 Check Our Catalog "It's tough enough defining your identity--imagine if your father was a rock legend.
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Blanche Kelly's dad is a famous indie rock icon, but not many people at the private school she attends on scholarship know this. Her father left when she was in the first grade, and she can't quite forgive her mom for not understanding that an artist like her dad needs the time and space to connect to his muse.
When Blanche creates an all-girl rock band, their sound captures a wide audience and the band is invited to compete at the Coachella Music Festival. Blanche feels this could be the perfect time for a reunion with her father. Won't he be proud to hear her band? Won't he be happy to get to know his only daughter? …More
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| Goddess Boot Camp
By Childs, Tera Lynn
2009-06 - Dutton Books
0525421343 Check Our Catalog After discovering she's a descendant of Nike (the goddess, not the shoe), Phoebe is finding that supernatural power have a learning curve. So her stepfather, headmaster of the Academy for descendants of Greek gods, enrolls her in the "Dynamotheos" Development Camp--a.k.a. Goddess Boot Camp. …More
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| Emily the Strange: The Lost Days
By Reger, Rob
Author Gruner, Jessica
Illustrator Reger, Rob
2009-06 - HarperCollins
0061452300 Check Our Catalog 13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel: 1. Mystery 2. A beautiful golem 3. Souped-up slingshots 4. Four black cats 5. Amnesia 6. Calamity Poker 7. Angry ponies 8. A shady truant officer 9. Top-13 lists 10. A sandstorm generator 11. Doppelgangers 12. A secret mission 13. Earwigs Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing. …More
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