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Letting Go

Karen Levin Coburn

My Louisiana Sky

Kimberly Willis Holt

Wanting nothing more than to leave her mentally disabled mother, slow father, strict grandmother, and mean classmates behind, Tiger Ann goes to Aunt Dorie Kay's for the summer, and while there, begins

Missing Since Monday

Ann M. Martin

When their little sister doesn't come home from school, 15-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep secrets about their natural mother, whom they consider a kidnapping suspect.

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The Face On the Milk Carton

Caroline B. Cooney

A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

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Iceman

Chris Lynch

Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.

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If There Be Thorns

V. C. Andrews

Chris and Cathy, still plagued by past horrors, try to raise Jory and Bart as they are watched by a mysterious Lady in Black next door.

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Someone Else's Ghost

Margaret Buffie

When her family moves to a guest ranch in Alberta after the death of her younger brother, sixteen-year-old Jessica slowly becomes aware of a ghostly link between her mother's grief and a long ago trad

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The Real World

Harriet Sirof

A fifteen-year-old who lives with her mother, an ardent feminist, in a women's commune begins to discover how others live when she visits her father, a successful architect, for the first time.

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A Cry for Help

Mary Elizabeth Giffin

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Camilla

Madeline L'Engle

A reading of the first 40 pages of a novel which tells of a young girl's first romance, her devastation over her parents' marital problems, and the growth of her own sense of self.

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