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Blue Diary

Alice Hoffman

A small Massachusetts town is turned upside-down when it is discovered that a respected resident is wanted for the rape and murder of a teenage girl fifteen years earlier.

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Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

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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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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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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Kimberly Willis Holt

During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.

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The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket

Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.

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Sula

Toni Morrison

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The Monument

Gary Paulsen

Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.

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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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Enoch's Place

Joyce Rockwood

Fifteen-year-old Enoch, oldest of the Children in their Blue Ridge Mountain community of hippies, leaves his family's farm to live with his cousins in the city.

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