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A Map of the Known World

Product Description: This lyrical novel is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jay Asher.Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by her small town and high school. She seeks solace in drawing beautiful maps, envisioning herself in exotic locales...read more

By Lisa Ann Sandell

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Paperback:

9780545069717 | Reprint edition (Scholastic, May 1, 2011), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: This lyrical novel is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jay Asher.

School and Library:

9780545069700 | 1 edition (Scholastic Pr, April 15, 2009), cover price $16.99

Touching Snow

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal-again. But she's too busy dodging the fists of her stepfather and looking out for her sisters to deal with school...read more

By M. Sindy Felin

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Hardcover:

9781416917953 | Atheneum, May 22, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults pursuade her to claim responsibility.

Prebinding:

9780606158367 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, March 22, 2011), cover price $20.85 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Black Box

WHEN DORA, ELENAâS older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena canât seem to make sense of their lives anymore. At school, the only people who acknowledge Elena are Doraâs friends and Jimmy Zenkâwho failed at least one grade and wears blackevery day of the week. And at home, Elenaâs parents keep arguing with each other. Elena will do anything to help her sister get better and get their lives back to normalâeven when the responsibility becomes too much to bear.

By Julie Schumacher

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Hardcover:

9780385735421 | Delacorte Pr, August 26, 2008, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: WHEN DORA, ELENAâS older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena canât seem to make sense of their lives anymore.

Paperback:

9780440240648 | 1 edition (Delacorte Pr, March 9, 2010), cover price $7.99 | also contains Black Box

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739385937 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, May 12, 2009), cover price $28.00 | also contains Black Box | About this edition: WHEN DORA, ELENAâS older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena canât seem to make sense of their lives anymore.

Library:

9780385905237 | Delacorte Pr, August 26, 2008, cover price $18.99

The Chicken Dance

Product Description: Don Schmidt knows his name has changed from Stanley, and he believes he had a sister and she died of scarlet fever when she was fifteen but these and other details of Don's life don't quite add up. Don's family lives on a chicken farm in Horse Island, where his mother would prefer not to be...read more

By Jacques Couvillon

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Hardcover:

9781410405791 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 2, 2008), cover price $22.95

9781599900438 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA, August 21, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shockingfamily secrets.

Paperback:

9781599903316 | Bloomsbury USA, July 3, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Don Schmidt knows his name has changed from Stanley, and he believes he had a sister and she died of scarlet fever when she was fifteen but these and other details of Don's life don't quite add up.

Picture Perfect

When her mother leaves the family to take a new job in Las Vegas, Phoebe's world is shaken to the core as everything she has ever known comes to a crashing halt, thus when the widow next door begins to be a common figure around the house, Phoebe's fears increase as the idea of a replacement for her mother becomes an unbearable reality.

By D. Anne Love

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Hardcover:

9780689873904 | Margaret K McElderry, March 27, 2007, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.

Cheated

Product Description: Mick, Brody and Aaron spend most of their free time drinking and commiserating about the raw deal they have in life. One night, instead of going to the high school football game, they start on a drinking binge that spirals down farther and farther until it ends with a deadly mistake...read more

By Patrick Jones

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Hardcover:

9780802796998 | Walker & Co, April 1, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Mick recalls a series of betrayals and other life-changing events in his broken home, during the break-up with his girlfriend, and at school, that led to his arrest for murder.

Paperback:

9780802798473 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, July 21, 2009), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Mick, Brody and Aaron spend most of their free time drinking and commiserating about the raw deal they have in life.

Touch

Did they, or didn't they?Did she, or didn't she?Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willardâsomething involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match, and the rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved . . . the school, the parents, the lawyers. The incident at the back of the bus becomes the center of Maisie's life, the talk of the school and, horribly, it becomes news. With just a few words and a touch, the kids and their community are changed forever.From nationally acclaimed author Francine Prose comes an unforgettable story about the difficulties of telling the truth, the consequences of lying, and the most dangerous twist of allâthe possibility that you yourself will come to believe something that you know isn't true.

By Francine Prose

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Hardcover:

9780061375170 | 1 edition (Harperteen, June 1, 2009), cover price $16.99

Paperback:

9780061375194 | Reprint edition (Harperteen, June 15, 2010), cover price $8.99

Library:

9780061375187 | Harperteen, June 1, 2009, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Did they, or didn't they?

The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes

Product Description: Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked old house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop, everything from fried clams and fried hot dogs to ice cream sundaes...read more

By Greg Swearingen (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780375837715 | 1 edition (Wendy Lamb Books, June 9, 2009), cover price $15.99

Paperback:

9780375837722 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, March 8, 2011), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked old house on Gooch Street.

Library:

9780375937712 | Wendy Lamb Books, June 9, 2009, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Everyone has a destiny.

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.

By Gennifer Choldenko

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Paperback:

9780152066444 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 6, 2009), cover price $7.99 | also contains If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

Miscellaneous:

9780547351285 | Houghton Mifflin, April 6, 2009, cover price $6.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739348857 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, October 9, 2007), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.

School and Library:

9780152057534 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.

Prebinding:

9780606106382 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, April 6, 2009), cover price $18.40 | also contains If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Scout

After her mother dies, eleven-year-old Cecelia befriends a new boy at school, but soon realizes that the scruffy youth's home life is the reason for his introspective personality, which is so much like her own.

By Christine Ford

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Hardcover:

9780385732345 | Delacorte Pr, March 14, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After her mother dies, eleven-year-old Cecelia befriends a new boy at school, but soon realizes that the scruffy youth's home life is the reason for his introspective personality, which is so much like her own.

Paperback:

9780440420415 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, August 14, 2007), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: After her mother dies, eleven-year-old Cecelia befriends a new boy at school, but soon realizes that the scruffy youth's home life is the reason for his introspective personality, which is so much like her own.

Miscellaneous:

9780307490575 | Yearling Books, March 25, 2009, cover price $5.50

Library:

9780385902601 | Delacorte Pr, March 14, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: After her mother dies, eleven-year-old Cecelia befriends a new boy at school, but soon realizes that the scruffy youth's home life is the reason for his introspective personality, which is so much like her own.

Prebinding:

9781442002869 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.50

Everything Is Fine

Product Description: Stuck at home caring for her severely depressed mother and abandoned by her father, Mazzy has only the day-to-day dramas of her neighborhood to keep her busy. But between flirting with the boy next door and worrying about the fact that she's flat-chested, Mazzy has to face the fact that her mom is emotionally paralyzed by a family tragedy...read more

By Ann Dee Ellis

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Paperback:

9780316014434, titled "Everything Is Fine." | 1 reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, March 1, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Stuck at home caring for her severely depressed mother and abandoned by her father, Mazzy has only the day-to-day dramas of her neighborhood to keep her busy.

Miscellaneous:

9780316040631 | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 2009, cover price $7.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739379066 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, March 10, 2009), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: It is going to work.

School and Library:

9780316013642 | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Stuck at home caring for her severely depressed mother and abandoned by her father, Mazzy has only the day-to-day dramas of her neighborhood to keep her busy.

Morning in a Different Place

Product Description: Fiona is a child of Irish immigrants; Yolanda is black. Compelled by financial hardship and concern about her daughter, Fionaâs mother has reunited with her husband, who struggles with alcoholism and the violence it triggers in him...read more

By Mary Ann McGuigan

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School and Library:

9781590785515 | Front Street Inc, February 1, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Fiona is a child of Irish immigrants; Yolanda is black.

Tall Tales

Product Description: Meg's family has moved a lot because of her father's drinking. Meg arrives in her town longing to find a real friend, someone she can talk to and write stories with. When she and Grace join forces to write a book, she's thrilled that she has finally found someone who likes her for who she is, who trusts her and confides in her...read more

By Karen Day

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Hardcover:

9780375837739 | Wendy Lamb Books, May 8, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.

Paperback:

9780375837746 | Dgs rep edition (Yearling Books, November 11, 2008), cover price $6.50

Library:

9780375937736 | Wendy Lamb Books, May 8, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.

Prebinding:

9781439588611 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: Meg's family has moved a lot because of her father's drinking.

Before, After, and Somebody in Between

Product Description: One hour into her first day of tenth grade, Martha Kowalski knows sheâs really in trouble. The school bully, Chardonnay, has already threatened her lifeâand at home, things are even worse. Marthaâs mom, fresh out of rehab, is shacking up with a total jerk in a run-down two-family in the ghetto...read more

By Jeannine Garsee

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Hardcover:

9781599900223 | Bloomsbury USA, June 26, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After dealing with an alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, a school bully, and life on the wrong side of the tracks in Cleveland, Ohio, high school sophomore Martha Kowalski expects to be happy when she moves in with a rich family across town, butfinds that the 'rich life' has problems of its own.

Paperback:

9781599902920 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA, October 28, 2008), cover price $8.99

Prebinding:

9781439583654 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: One hour into her first day of tenth grade, Martha Kowalski knows sheâs really in trouble.

Doppelganger

When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.

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Hardcover:

9780060872328 | Eos, May 1, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.

Paperback:

9780060872342 | Reprint edition (Harperteen, September 1, 2008), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Doppelgangers are monsters, hardwired for murder.

Library:

9780060872335 | Eos, May 1, 2006, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.

Prebinding:

9781439581506 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, December 10, 2008), cover price $17.99

The Opposite of Music

Product Description: when i am well i will take you At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And after that he just stopped...read more

By Janet Ruth Young

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Hardcover:

9781416900405 | Atheneum, February 27, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: With his family, fifteen-year-old Billy struggles to help his father deal with a debilitating depression.

Paperback:

9781416958239 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, May 20, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: when i am well i will take you At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind.

Miscellaneous:

9781416974987 | Simon Pulse, June 30, 2008, cover price $7.99

Prebinding:

9781439583951 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: when i am well i will take you At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind.

Listening for Crickets

With ears like a bat and webbed toes, it seems as if ten-yearold Jake could fly right out of reality into the freedom of his dreams. No more worries about asthma, special reading class, or his parents' fightingâjust sky. But Jake can't simply fly away. There's his little sister, Cassie, to tell stories to when the night sounds become frightening, amazing facts to learn from his best friend Luke, and a safe placeâDragon's Nestâto build in the backyard. This beautifully written middle grade novel tells the courageous story of Jakeâa night watchmanâa protector in the truest sense of the word who finds hope in crickets, friends, teachers, and dreams.

By David Gifaldi

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Paperback:

9780805097405 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, April 29, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: With ears like a bat and webbed toes, it seems as if ten-yearold Jake could fly right out of reality into the freedom of his dreams.

School and Library:

9780805073850 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, April 29, 2008, cover price $16.95

Rits

Product Description: A charming and highly comic debut novel about learning to overcome obstacles.Thirteen-year-old Rits has been left in the lurch by his parents. His mother has entered an institution, and his father is traveling with his new girlfriend...read more

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School and Library:

9781590785454 | Italian edition edition (Front Street Inc, April 1, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A charming and highly comic debut novel about learning to overcome obstacles.

The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

By Claudia Mills

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School and Library:

9780374376963 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 18, 2008, cover price $16.99

Jessie's Mountain

In late 1963, with her family in financial straits, twelve-year-old Olivia runs away to Nashville to sell some of her songs.

By Kerry Madden

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Hardcover:

9780670061549 | Viking Childrens Books, February 14, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In late 1963, with her family in financial straits, twelve-year-old Olivia runs away to Nashville to sell some of her songs.

Miscellaneous:

9781436229739 | Viking Childrens Books, February 14, 2008, cover price $13.99

9781440632716 | Viking Childrens Books, February 14, 2008, cover price $13.99

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Break

Kirsten's world is crumbling. Her parents are barely speaking to each other and her 'best-friend' has fallen under the spell of queen bee, Brianna. For Walker the goal is simply to survive in the private school his mother has moved him to because she doesn't want him to mess up with most of the kids in his old school.

By Gennifer Choldenko

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Paperback:

9780747589273 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 21, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Kirsten's world is crumbling.

Rose by Any Other Name

Product Description: Don'tcha just hate the way you get caught up in stuff without really wanting to? Then it goes a bit further, and suddenly you're one of those jerks you hate because . . . you can't be trusted.Â Â ROSE WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO GET AWAY...read more

By Maureen McCarthy

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Paperback:

9781741754261 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2008, cover price $11.90

School and Library:

9781596433724 | Roaring Brook, March 18, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Don'tcha just hate the way you get caught up in stuff without really wanting to?

Chess Rumble

Branded a troublemaker due to his anger over everything from being bullied to his sister's death a year before, Marcus begins to control himself and cope with his problems at home and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor teaches him to play chess.

By G. Neri and Jesse Joshua Watson (illustrator)

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School and Library:

9781584302797 | Lee & Low Books, November 30, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Branded a troublemaker due to his anger over everything from being bullied to his sister's death a year before, Marcus begins to control himself and cope with his problems at home and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor teaches him to play chess.

Divine Secrets

Settling into rural life after leaving her Hollywood career, Divine works to build stronger personal ties and worries about her close friend, Mia, whom Divine learns is being physically abused. Original.

By Jacquelin Thomas

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Paperback:

9781416551447 | Gallery Books, October 16, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: While Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison is staying in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, she faces difficult choices about keeping secrets that might be harmful to others, and how--or whether--to accept her mother's boyfriend into her life.

The Quantum July

Having always been a grand dreamer with a strong belief that he truly belongs to a different family, Danny finds a hidden power within when he solves the Chaos Theory, setting in motion a chain of events that affects he and all those he loves.

By Ron King

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Hardcover:

9780385734189 | Delacorte Pr, October 9, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: As problems escalate between their parents, a Harvard-educated stock boy and a would-be physicist, thirteen-year-old Danny agrees to participate in his twelve-year-old sister's experiments with quantum physics, through which he hopes he can change their lives for the better.

Library:

9780385904322 | Delacorte Pr, October 9, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: As problems escalate between their parents, a Harvard-educated stock boy and a would-be physicist, thirteen-year-old Danny agrees to participate in his twelve-year-old sister's experiments with quantum physics, through which he hopes he can change their lives for the better.

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