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-- Negative onec2010., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab Call No: Realistic FIC Brezenoff Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Four teenagers relate their experiences as they try to cope with problems in school and at home by smoking, drinking, using drugs, and running track.
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-- Nineteenth wife2009., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Historical Fic Ebershoff Edition: 2009 Random House trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The story of Ann Eliza Young's crusade against polygamy interwines with a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah.
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-- Card turner2011., Juvenile, Ember Call No: Realistic FIC Sachar Edition: 1st Ember ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
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-- Card turner2011., Juvenile, Ember Call No: Realistic FIC Sachar Sachar Edition: 1st Ember ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
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2004., Pre-adolescent, Speak Call No: Romance FIC Dessen Genre: Romance Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
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2011., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Realistic FIC King Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
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c2011., Akashic Books Call No: Sports FIC Watson Genre: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Depicts sixteen-year-old Billy Dyer as he struggles to join the small-town football team whose tradition of brutal training resembles that of the ancient Spartans. However, in the course of this situation, he discovers that his father has been blackmailed into working with Blake Rainey, the town's most powerful and wealthy man, in a land-acquisition scheme. When Rainey offers Billy a Faustian deal to rejoin the football team, Billy must accept the consequences of his choice.
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2015., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Realistic FIC Magoon Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
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By Zarr, Sara2011., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Realistic FIC Zarr Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
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c2010., Adolescent, WestSide Books Call No: Realistic Fic Stanley Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Upon his parents' 1981 divorce, Cal Burton goes from being a popular, comfortable Spokane basketball all-star to a resident of a Ute Indian reservation in Utah, where apathy, poor living conditions, racism, and bitterness over a decades-old family tragedy change his life.
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2012., Grand Central Pub. Call No: B Kasher Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents the autobiography of Moshe Kasher and describes being abducted by his mother and his life in Oakland, California where he entered the war zone of its public schools. Being only one of very few white students, he adopted the mannerisms, lifestyle, and Gangster rap of his black comrades and started using drugs at the age of twelve. Describes his nightmarish existence and destructive behaviors that eventually brought him into rehab. Discusses his downward spiral in a brutally honest but often humorous manner and relates his struggle to overcome the horrors of his childhood and achieve a normal life.
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2015., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Realistic FIC Benwell Edition: First U.S. edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Japan, teen Abe Sora, who is afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.
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By York, Kelley2013., Juvenile, Entangled Teen Call No: Romance FIC York Edition: First edition. Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Hunter and his half-sister Ashlin go to stay at their dad's for the winter and reunite with their childhood friend, Chance. They soon discover that Chance is hiding a dangerous secret, and when someone turns up dead, Hunter and Ashlin try to prove Chance's innocence. However, Chance is a perpetual liar and the siblings first have to learn what is true and what is not.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: Realistic Fic Oelke Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Having recently been expelled from high school, Jane Sinner enrolls in community college, where the student-run reality show "House of Orange" feels like her chance to start over. However, it turns out that a new start isn't all she wants, or needs--a family who understands her would be nice, but maybe the growing fanbase for "HOO" can suffice for now.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic FIC Draper Edition: 1st Anthenuem Books for Young Readers pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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2011., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Realistic FIC Nelson Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2012., Bloomsbury Call No: Realistic FIC Ward Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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2012, c2011., Adolescent, Speak Call No: Romance FIC Griffin Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
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c2011., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Sports FIC Herbach Genre: Sports Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.
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By Purcell, Kim2012., Adolescent, Viking Call No: Realistic FIC Purcell Book 2 Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.
