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Child of the Wolves

Elizabeth Hall

Rather than be sold, Granite, a husky puppy, runs away into the Alaskan wilderness and is taken in by a wolf that has lost her pups.

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Candle in the Wind

Maureen Crane Wartski

On the night of a party celebrating his acceptance into Harvard, Harris Mizuno, a Japanese-American teenager, is shot dead by an elderly white man who mistakes him for an intruder when Harris asks to

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Year of Impossible Goodbyes

Sook Nyul Choi

A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.

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Lost in the War

Nancy Antle

Twelve-year-old Lisa Grey struggles to cope with a mother whose traumatic experiences as a nurse in Vietnam during the war are still haunting her.

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Invincible Summer

Jean Ferris

Seventeen-year-old Robin, in treatment for leukemia, falls in love with a boy who also has the disease, and together they attempt to survive their ordeal.

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Homesick

Jean Fritz

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920s.

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Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye

Lois Lowry

Seemingly a girl who has everything, Natalie, at seventeen, goes in pursuit of her real mother.

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So Long at the Fair

Hadley Irwin

The summer fairgrounds provide a temporary refuge for eighteen-year-old Joel as he struggles to deal with his memories of Ashley, the friend he loved and expected to have as a part of his life always.

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Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket

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Rumble Fish

S. E. Hinton

A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.

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