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Books in Avon Flare book series

  • The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery

    Ellen Raskin

    Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, June 1, 1984)
    Each of the sixteen people invited to the reading of a very strange will are given $10,000, a set of clues, and the chance to become a millionaire
  • The Rain Catchers

    Jean Thesman

    Paperback (HarperTeen, Aug. 1, 1992)
    Beyond YesterdayEvery story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginning.
  • Independence Day

    B. A. Ecker

    Paperback (Avon Books, March 1, 1983)
    High school student Michael comes to terms with the fact that he is gay, and on July 4th, Independence Day, decides to tell his best friend Todd of his true feelings toward him.
  • Face-Off

    Stacy Drumtra

    Paperback (Flare, Nov. 1, 1992)
    When Brad's twin brother, T.J., the apple of their father's eye, transfers from his fancy prep school and into Brad's public school, Brad must contend with T.J.'s growing popularity as the school's new star hockey player. Original.
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  • Rogue Wave: And Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories

    Theodore Taylor

    Paperback (HarperTrophy, April 1, 1998)
    ROGUE WAVE AND OTHER RED-BLOODED SEA STORIESTossed in the thundering waters of a killer wave, Melissa fights for her life, trapped in the hull of an upside-down boat. . .Michael seeks revenge after his father's brutal death in the jaws of a great white shark. . .Blinded by his own blood, navy pilot Jack Grimes attempts to defy death by landing on an aircraft carrier. . .An apprentice seaman aboard an American freighter is plunged into the cold sea. The suck of the hull draws him cruelly along below the waterline, knifing him on barnacles, finally releasing him into the white water wake, as his ship disappears on the horizon. . .THE SEA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PLACE OF HIGH ADVENTURE--FASCINATING, MYSTERIOUS, DANGEROUS AND DEADLY. IN EIGHT GRIPPING TALES, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THEODORE TAYLOR CAPTURES THE POWERFUL DRAMA OF THE MIGHTY SEA AND THE EXCITEMENT OF THOSE WHO DARE TO CHALLENGE IT.
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  • Am I Normal?

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Paperback (Avon Books, Jan. 1, 1983)
    Thirteen-year-old Jimmy goes to the library to find answers to his questions about sex and the changes taking place in his body
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  • Dangerous Secrets

    Audrey Barcus

    Paperback (Flare, Jan. 1, 1996)
    After receiving a mysterious envelope from Ricky, Erika begins to wonder if the envelope holds the key to Ricky's death a few days later and is horrified when she realizes that she is being stalked. Original.
  • Taking Terri Mueller

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Paperback (HarperTeen, Nov. 1, 1981)
    For as long as I can remember, It's just been Daddy and me. I can't remember my mother. I was told she died in an accident when I was four, and that's all I know about her. I don't understand why there isn't even a picture of her. The other thing I don't understand is why we're always moving -- different towns -- with no explanations. I know something is wrong. It begins with my birth certificate-- my only link to my mother. Then I overhear a conversation: "Tell terri the truth ," Why are we moving all the time? Are we running away from something or someone? What kind of secret is Daddy hiding...and why can't he share it with me.
  • Die for Me

    Carol Gorman

    (Flare, July 1, 1992)
    At a Halloween party a month after Holly Baldwin's unsolved murder, her friends try to contact her spirit through the ouija board, only to be told that more will die
  • Walking Up a Rainbow

    Theodore Taylor

    Paperback (HarperTeen, Aug. 1, 1996)
    Orphaned at fourteen, Susan Carlisle is suddenlythe owner of her parents' beautiful Iowa home,two thousand sheep . . . and a huge debt that puts herat the mercy of a scoundrel determined to take it all the away. With barely a moment of hestation, Susan heads for California to sell the sheep, and paythe debt. Along the way she bravely faces thehardships and excitement of the western trail, and boldly ropes an American cowboy intoher scheme . . . and into her heart.
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  • Cattail Moon

    Jean Thesman

    Paperback (Flare, Aug. 1, 1995)
    Hearing a musical, enchanting voice coming to her from across the marshes, Julia rushes out and briefly glimpses a beautiful, white-clad figure and is drawn into the mystery of the unknown girl and a boy named Luke. Reprint.
  • Bright Shadow

    Joyce Carol Thomas

    Paperback (HarperCollins, Sept. 1, 1983)
    Strong Jackson has trouble accepting the fact that his daughter, Abysinia, is growing up, in spite of the fact that she will be going to college to become a doctor
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