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This Is All

Aidan Chambers

Nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn, weeks away from giving birth, gathers up her journals, poems, letters, stories, and thoughts in a collection to share with her daughter on the occasion of the unborn c

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The Geography of Girlhood

Kirsten Smith

A coming-of-age novel in poems, in which small-town teenager Penny Morrow longs for love, courage, and a life of adventure and struggles through the absence of her mother, the mental illness of a frie

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The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

Fourteen-year-old Lily and Rosaleen, the African-American woman who has loved her like a mother since she was four, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers and find a sa

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Second Helpings

Megan McCafferty

New Jersey teenager Jessica Darling chronicles her senior year in high school, coping with life without her best friend, and trying to figure out the current intentions of Marcus, the boy who sent her

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My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for con

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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of just

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My Jim

Nancy Rawles

Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to

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My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for con

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Sex, Boys, & You

Joni Arredia

Addresses concerns of teenage girls, including sex, dating, appearance, loneliness, spirituality, dreams and aspirations, exercise, and posture.

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Seventeen Presents-- Traumarama!

A collection of embarrassing stories by Atoosa Rubenstein, the editor-in-chief of Seventeen Magazine, from her column "Traumarama.".

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