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Rash

Pete Hautman

In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skill

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Dreamland

Sarah Dessen

After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and

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Simon Says

Elaine Marie Alphin

An alienated, aspiring young painter who attends high school at a boarding school for the arts discovers that being true to himself means opening the door to both pain and pleasure.

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Princess in Love

Meg Cabot

In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.

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Princess in the Spotlight

Meg Cabot

Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news,

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The Broken Bridge

Philip Pullman

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earli

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See You Down the Road

Kim Ablon Whitney

Sixteen-year-old Bridget, member of an Irish Traveler community in the U.S., questions the traditions of her family's nomadic, criminal way of life and begins to consider breaking free.

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Anthem

Ayn Rand

In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.

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Slot Machine

Chris Lynch

When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at Christian Brothers Academy Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try various sports in order to find out where the

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Crispin

Avi

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

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