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What About Anna?

Jan Simoen

In Belgium in 1999, upon learning that her brother who was reported killed by a landmine in Bosnia may still be alive, sixteen-year-old Anna resents that she is the only one strong enough to try to un

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Little Chicago

Adam Rapp

An eleven-year-old boy tries to cope with being sexually abused, neglected, and treated cruelly at school.

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Playing without the Ball

Rich Wallace

Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball

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The Squared Circle

James W. Bennett

Sonny, a university freshman and star basketball player, finds that the pressures of college life, NCAA competition, and an unsettling relationship with his feminist cousin bring up painful memories t

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Johnny Voodoo

Dakota Lane

When her father moves her and her younger brother from Manhattan to Louisiana after the death of her mother, fifteen-year-old Deirdre is desolate until she meets a strange young man known as Johnny Vo

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Gypsy Davey

Chris Lynch

Twelve-year-old Davey is the man of the household, taking care of his mother and older sister as best he can and avoiding them when they're either too mean or too sad.

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The Tiger Orchard

Joyce Sweeney

Zack has always felt like an outsider in his family but doesn't quite know why until he begins having nightmares which reach back for long-hidden childhood memories.

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Don't Blame the Music

Caroline B. Cooney

Seventeen-year-old Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and people shattered by the return home of he

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The Dream Keeper

Margery Evernden

Her parents' impending separation leads a gifted thirteen-year-old musician to discover the story of her greatgrandmother's immigration to America from a Jewish shtetl in Poland.

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When the Phone Rang

Harry Mazer

When their parents are killed in an airplane crash, three siblings try to keep the family together in the face of overwhelming personal and financial problems.

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