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Apprehended for transporting drugs, a college freshman spends a year in a federal woman's correctional facility.

School and Library:

9780689310447 | Atheneum, August 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Anne Montgomery, known as Monty, describes her experiences in a woman's correctional facility and explains how she got involved transporting drugs, the crime that sent her there

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Kim and Stella set out to solve the murder of Camp Allegro's new riding counselor, Mac, as they encounter adventure deep in a cave

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9780689310126 | Atheneum, March 1, 1984, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A feud over the merits of two counsellors divides the campers at Camp Allegro until one of the counsellors is found murdered.

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A teachers' strike upsets the life of a high school student who has good friends among the teachers and a father on the school board.

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9780689309526 | Atheneum, February 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A teachers' strike places Barry and his father on opposing sides of the issue, and after a violent confrontation, they begin to reach a long-awaited understanding for each other

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Seventeen-year-old Robbie Benson finds life very difficult despite his new Fiat and wealthy background until he uncovers some interesting facts about the father who deserted him when he was five

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9780395253007 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Robbie Benson finds life very difficult despite his new Fiat and wealthy background until he uncovers some interesting facts about the father who deserted him when he was five

Paperback:

9780553234121 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, October 1, 1982), cover price $1.95 | also contains Eres tú mi mamá / Are Your My Mother?

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Kim and Stella work to find the killer when a murder occurs in a household they are visiting.

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9780689309199 | Atheneum, September 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Kim and Stella investigate a murder that takes place while they are visiting their new neighbors

Susan joins a summer theater group, but fears she will have one of her odd spells, a result of undiagnosed epilepsy, while on stage.

School and Library:

9780689308765 | Atheneum, March 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Fear that she will have a seizure in front of the audience haunts a seventeen-year-old girl who joins a theater group after discovering she has epilepsy

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Gabriella Pendexter, who has traveled to Florida and the lush estate of millionaire Nathaniel Bradenton to take on the position of organist, encounters problems with her new employer-a man made bitter by his wife's desertion

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9780345302595 | Ballantine Books, December 1, 1981, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Gabriella Pendexter, who has traveled to Florida and the lush estate of millionaire Nathaniel Bradenton to take on the position of organist, encounters problems with her new employer-a man made bitter by his wife's desertion

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During the 1930s, Pauline Gates leaves Massachusetts for New York in order to pursue her career as a playwright

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9780345290120 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1981, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: During the 1930s, Pauline Gates leaves Massachusetts for New York in order to pursue her career as a playwright

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Two girls stumble upon things at their recently reopened camp that make them believe someone has been living there during the years the camp was deserted.

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9780689308406 | Atheneum, August 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A small pond and mysterious boat are the center of strange activities encountered by Stella and Kim during their summer at Camp Allegro

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Although she often thinks about her family, home, and friends in Montana, Abbie Fiske is fascinated by the fast-paced life in Boston and New York City and falls madly in love with Congressman Philip Blanton

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9780345297341 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1981, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Although she often thinks about her family, home, and friends in Montana, Abbie Fiske is fascinated by the fast-paced life in Boston and New York City and falls madly in love with Congressman Philip Blanton

Because of serious troubles in her parents' marriage, Rachel is sent to Palm Springs to live with her grandparents and, through two children disliked by their stepfather, she comes to understand the importance people have for one another

Hardcover:

9780689306174 | Atheneum, March 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Because of serious troubles in her parents' marriage, Rachel is sent to Palm Springs to live with her grandparents and, through two children disliked by their stepfather, she comes to understand the importance people have for one another

Paperback:

9780689704864 | Atheneum, March 1, 1981, cover price $2.95

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9780345286673 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 1981, cover price $1.95

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While vacationing with their mother and new stepfather in a semi-deserted plantation house outside New Orleans, a boy and a girl discover a murder and help track down the murderer.

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9780689307744 | Atheneum, August 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Dorothy and Franklin fly to New Orleans to stay with their mother and new stepfather, but when they move into the new house strange things begin to happen and there is suddenly a murder to be solved

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Considered a nuisance to her parents, Hope is shipped off to Ireland for the summer with a young woman who also has personal problems.

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9780689307362 | Scribner, February 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: After refusing to be sent away to camp for yet another summer, Hope reluctantly agrees to tour Ireland with Eileen Helding, a young woman just recovering from an emotionally draining romance

Because she feels that CoCo Rainbolt, her crippled father, her domineering aunt, and her baseball coach are trying to control her life, Maggie decides to run away and join a professional baseball team

Hardcover:

9780689306754 | Atheneum, March 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Although she loves her disabled father, a young girl longs to get away from home and is drawn to the idea of going to a baseball training camp for women.

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Stuck in a small town on Hawaii with her reclusive mother and her brothers, one a bully and the other an escapist, Melody begins to believe that she has the magical powers of the ancient Hawaiian goddesses

Hardcover:

9780689305801 | Atheneum, July 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A twelve-year-old girl living in Hawaii gets caught up in the myths and superstitions of the area.

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Product Description: Deafened by an illness, fourteen-year-old Margaret refuses to accept her condition and runs away in fear that her mother's remarriage may mean she'll be sent to a boarding school for the deaf.

Paperback:

9780689704406 | Atheneum, March 1, 1977, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Deafened by an illness, fourteen-year-old Margaret refuses to accept her condition and runs away in fear that her mother's remarriage may mean she'll be sent to a boarding school for the deaf.

School and Library:

9780689304064, titled "A Dance to Still Music" | Atheneum, August 1, 1974, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A deaf girl decides to run away after receiving news that her mother is to remarry

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Lynn spends a year with her grandmother on Nantucket Island and, taking advantage of the old woman's forgetfulness, does not go to school, a course of action that ultimately brings serious trouble to Lynn and her grandmother

Hardcover:

9780689305504 | Scribner, February 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Arriving on Nantucket Island for a year with her grandmother, Lynn finds herself faced with problems of her grandmother's age, 'tough kids' at school, and her own lack of self-confidence.

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In pursuit of a career as a theatrical director, a Maine youth goes to live in New York

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9780689305214 | Atheneum, August 1, 1976, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In pursuit of a career as a theatrical director, a Maine youth goes to live in New York

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On the eve of World War II a young girl handicapped by a reading disability tries to cope with family problems and the question of her future.

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9780689304989 | Atheneum, March 1, 1976, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: As the world's nations and her brother and boyfriend go to war, Elinor comes to grips with her own private wars and finds an unanticipated opportunity to exercise her talents

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Recently orphaned Liza accompanies her aunt and uncle on a return visit to Moscow, where she befriends and decides to help a Georgian circus clown who is fleeing the KGB

School and Library:

9780689304651 | Atheneum, August 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A sixteen-year-old American girl becomes involved with a circus clown in Moscow who is sought by the KGB.

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Eighteen-year-old Jordan Phillips, stricken with a rare and fatal muscular-vascular disease, prepares to make the most of the short time left to him

Hardcover:

9780689304668 | Atheneum, August 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An eighteen-year-old boy tries to cope with the realization that he has a fatal disease.

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While on a trip to Samarkand with her family, a fat, awkward fourteen-year-old discovers her own strong points during an inadvertent involvement with drug smugglers.
By Barbara Corcoran and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780689304460 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1975, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An overweight teenage girl on vacation in Russia gains the attention of her sister's handsome boyfriend when she becomes involved in a crime

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When Gail learns she must stay with an uncle she hates while her mother is in a mental hospital, she decides to escape
By Barbara Corcoran and Gail Owens (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689301339 | Atheneum, March 1, 1974, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In her desperate attempt to escape custody of her cruel uncle, thirteen-year-old Gail finds refuge with the Partridges, a strange family living isolated in a spooky house in the woods.

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Seeking help for her nearly blind grandfather, thirteen-year-old Laurie travels across Montana

Paperback:

9780689704048 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1974, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: A young girl rides alone across Montana to get help for her grandfather who is going blind.

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