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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, March 5, 2008)Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Hattie Big Sky
Kirby Larson
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Sept. 5, 2007)After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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Lost and Found
Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Feb. 4, 2009)Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Jan. 6, 2010)In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her grandfather which leads to an important discovery.
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Twisted
Laurie Halse Anderson
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 1, 2007)After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
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Double Identity
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Aug. 1, 2007)Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
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Sunrise over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 3, 2008)Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
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When She Was Good
Norma Fox Mazer
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Feb. 6, 2008)The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own.
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Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Jan. 9, 2008)Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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Time's Memory
Julius Lester
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, May 2, 2007)Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to America from Africa, inhabits the body of a young African American slave on a Virginia plantation, where he experiences loss, sorrow, and reconciliation in the months preceding the Civil War.
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Ever
Gail Carson Levine
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 3, 2008)Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
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Airman
Eoin Colfer
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Aug. 6, 2008)In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison.
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