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Summary: Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak ...
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Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, ...
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Summary: Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to ...
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Summary: Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, ...
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Summary: Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before ...
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Summary: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving ...
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What Do Children and Young Adults Read Next? : A Reader's Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults. 2012, p278-278.
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Just Another Hero (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009) Jericho Prescott Trilogy. Book 3 High schools; Crime; Courage 13 - 16+ Arielle, Student—High School; Kofi, Student—...