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Tired of the glamorous pageantry life her mother has forced her to lead, Venus now wants nothing more than to join the Comets soccer team.

Hardcover:

9781581960075 | Darby Creek Pub, July 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tired of the glamorous pageantry life her mother has forced her to lead, Venus now wants nothing more than to join the Comets soccer team.

Paperback:

9781581960181 | Darby Creek Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Tired of the glamorous pageantry life her mother has forced her to lead, Venus now wants nothing more than to join the Comets soccer team.

Miscellaneous:

9780761385936 | Darby Creek Pub, August 1, 2011, cover price $11.95

Reinforced:

9780606305365 | Demco Media, April 30, 2004, cover price $13.59 | About this edition: Tired of the glamorous pageantry life her mother has forced her to lead, Venus now wants nothing more than to join the Comets soccer team.

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While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her father's courtship of a local widow. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780060543525 | Avon Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.

Library:

9780060543518 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 2004), cover price $13.89 | About this edition: While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.

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While her sister fights a deadly case of scarlet fever, Lizbeth is forced to move away to her cousins home where, despite being welcomed and loved, must cope with not being with her sister during her most desperate hour of need. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780060543471 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.

Paperback:

9780060543495 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, October 1, 2005), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.

Library:

9780060543488 | Harpercollins, September 1, 2004, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.

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When her mother resumes her outspoken activities with regard to suffrage in her new hometown, Rose is upset by her actions and finds comfort in a new friendship with an abused racehorse, Midnight Star, whom she becomes determined to keep for herself. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780060543464 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, June 1, 2005), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: In 1906, mortified by the suffragist activities of her mother that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, Rose sees no value in her mother's views until she tries to enter a riding competition open only to boys.

Library:

9780060543457 | Harpercollins, May 1, 2004, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.

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A story written by a celebrated American painter tells of thirteen-year-old Kate's difficult decision to choose between family obligations at the lighthouse and her desire to move away to Boston to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780060543433 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, June 1, 2005), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.

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While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her father's courtship of a local widow.

Hardcover:

9780060543501 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.

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When her mother resumes her outspoken activities with regard to suffrage in her new hometown, Rose is upset by her actions and finds comfort in a new friendship with an abused racehorse, Midnight Star, whom she becomes determined to keep for herself.

Hardcover:

9780060543440 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.

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A story written by a celebrated American painter tells of thirteen-year-old Kate's difficult decision to choose between family obligations at the lighthouse and her desire to move away to Boston to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

Hardcover:

9780060543419 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.

Library:

9780060543426 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, March 1, 2004), cover price $13.89 | About this edition: In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.

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Separated from her brothers while on the orphan train, Dierdre is placed in a horrid adoptive home and soon learns that her beloved brother is in Texas, and when she implores the vaudeville troop that arrives in town to take her to her brother, she is surprised to find that her place in life is on the stage. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780375801594, titled "The Midnight Train Home" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudevilletroupe.

Paperback:

9780440416708, titled "The Midnight Train Home" | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, August 1, 2002), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe.

Library:

9780375901591, titled "The Midnight Train Home" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudevilletroupe.

Prebinding:

9780613573184 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe.

When her boyfriend is accused of leading a gang rape of a retarded girl, Laura Jean Kettering becomes obsessed with proving that Scott and his friends are innocent and that the incident was the retarded victim's fault

Hardcover:

9780152785376 | Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when the school jocks are accused of gang-raping a retarded girl and her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved.

Paperback:

9780152270650 | Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when the school jocks are accused of gang-raping a retarded girl and her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved.

Prebinding:

9780613376976 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $12.05 | About this edition: High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when the school jocks are accused of gang-raping a retarded girl and her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved.

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Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition

Paperback:

9780679833963, titled "Soccer Mania!" | Random House Childrens Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition

Library:

9780679933960, titled "Soccer Mania!" | Random House Childrens Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition

Prebinding:

9780785708940 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition

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While on a family outing to the seashore, young Kate's imagination runs wild as she dreams that she has been transformed into Donnatalee, a beautiful mermaid, who spends her days swimming with the fishes and riding the sea horses.
By Barbara Lambase (illustrator) and Erika Tamar

School and Library:

9780152003869 | Harcourt Childrens Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Kate, a girl living in New York City, takes the subway to the beach, where she imagines being a mermaid, swimming with the fishes, and becoming queen of the sea

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Realizing that her best friend, Jody, is thwarting her attempts to win a cute boy that they both like, an enraged Claudia decides to end the friendship and steal the boy for herself. Original.

Paperback:

9780671018955 | Aladdin Paperbacks, April 1, 1998, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Realizing that her best friend, Jody, is thwarting her attempts to win a cute boy that they both like, an enraged Claudia decides to end the friendship

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With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter

Hardcover:

9780679870579 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter

Paperback:

9780679885610 | Reprint edition (Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 1997), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter

Reinforced:

9780606129725 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, October 1, 1997), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter

Prebinding:

9780613052955 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter

Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger

Hardcover:

9780060273286 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger

Paperback:

9780064406680 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, September 1, 1997), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger

Library:

9780060273293 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1996, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger

Reinforced:

9780606110327 | Demco Media, September 1, 1997, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger

Prebinding:

9780613706391 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Living in a poor Puerto Rican family complicates life for ten-year-old Marisol when she realizes that pursuing her love for ballet may expose her brother to danger

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Working with her neighbors to transform a garbage-filled lot into a community garden, Marisol of East Hudson Street is delighted by the fruits of everyone's labors, which include her own sky-reaching plant.

School and Library:

9780152305826 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1996, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Marisol and her neighbors turn a vacant New York City lot into a lush community garden

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During his summer vacation, seventeen-year-old Andy falls madly in love with Susan, the beautiful, twenty-year-old au pair for the wealthy and reclusive Carlysle family, and explores his desire to become a journalist.

Hardcover:

9780152824907 | Harcourt Childrens Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A summer romance with an older woman gives seventeen-year-old Andy a hard lesson about physical love, spiritual love, and their consequences

Paperback:

9780152000202 | Harcourt Childrens Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A summer romance with an older woman gives seventeen-year-old Andy a hard lesson about physical love, spiritual love, and their consequences

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When his girlfriend, Kim O'Hara, a lovely Asian-American girl, reveals a terrible secret about her life, Andy Szabo sets out to find a way to help Kim put the shattered pieces of her life back together.

School and Library:

9780689317897 | Atheneum, October 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Andy is often baffled by his girlfriend Kim's apparent coolness and rigidity until her tragic past is suddenly revealed

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When fourteen-year-old Alice Lonner is discovered by a modeling agency and leaves homework, babysitting, and overnights with her best friend behind, she enters a world for which she is unprepared

Hardcover:

9780670828432 | Kestrel Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old Alice discovers there's a lot more to being a high fashion model than designer clothes and a glamorous lifestyle.

Paperback:

9780671734329 | Reprint edition (Simon Pulse, December 1, 1991), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old Alice discovers there's a lot more to being a high fashion model than designer clothes and a glamorous lifestyle.

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Darren, a Long Island high-school senior and member of a rock band, Out of Control, becomes a witness to the tragic consequences of the band's lead singer Johnny's deadly obsession with sixteen-year-old guitarist Jessica

School and Library:

9780689316890 | Atheneum, October 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A talented singer's love turns to obsession when he starts dating the female guitarist in his rock band.

Ninth-grader Andy's quiet life with his father and cat above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is 'discovered,' bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business.

Paperback:

9780020453956 | Simon Pulse, October 1, 1991, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Ninth-grader Andy's quiet life is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is 'discovered,' bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business

School and Library:

9780689314780 | Atheneum, April 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Ninth-grader Andy's relatively stable life with his father and his cat living above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is discovered by a restaurant critic, bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business.

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Fifteen-year-old Linda, who resembles her father and has his gift for music, pursues the truth about her long-absent parent now that he has died, and her own interest in the guitar.

Hardcover:

9780517546710 | Random House Value Pub, March 1, 1983, cover price $1.99 | About this edition: A fifteen-year-old girl tries to learn about her estranged father when she is told of his death, and begins to understand her father, her mother, and herself

Paperback:

9780679804246 | Random House Childrens Books, January 1, 1991, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A fifteen-year-old girl tries to learn about her estranged father when she is told of his death, and begins to understand her father, her mother, and herself

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Liesl, a young Jewish refugee who yearns to be glamorous and famous like Rita Hayworth, finds herself sidetracked by Billy Laramie, an incorrigible troublemaker, in a story about a young girl coming of age in Manhattan during World War II

Paperback:

9780451140197, titled "Good-Bye Glamour Girl" | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, December 1, 1985), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Liesl, a young Jewish refugee who yearns to be glamorous and famous like Rita Hayworth, finds herself sidetracked by Billy Laramie, an incorrigible troublemaker, in a story about a young girl coming of age in Manhattan during World War II

Library:

9780397320882 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1984, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Liesl, a young Jewish refugee who yearns to be glamorous and famous like Rita Hayworth, finds herself sidetracked by Billy Laramie, an incorrigible troublemaker, in a story about a young girl coming of age in Manhattan during World War II

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