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c2006., Adolescent, Harper Tempest Call No: FIC OATES Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.
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-- Boy 21.2013., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Sports Fic Quick Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Call No: REALISTIC F RAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
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2010., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: TEEN FIC HOP Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
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[2016]., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Blue Fiction REYNOLDS Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: SPORTS F REY Edition: First Edition. Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Series Title: Track Volume: 1Summary Note: Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team -- a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training. If he can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons -- it all starting with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems -- and running away from them -- until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who blew his own shot at success by using drugs, and who is determined to keep other kids from blowing their shots at life.
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[2016]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC GLASGOW Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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[2017], Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: REALISTIC F KAP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When a local bully upsets the senior community by throwing wild parties, an effort that is complicated by Aaron's PTSD and Tom's unrequited feelings for the bully's sister, misfit Tom and his friend Ed take matters into their own hands.
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[2014]., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Front Street Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Abandoned by his mentally ill mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.
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By Beam, Cris2011., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Realistic Fic Beam Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
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-- It is the end of the world as I know it[2019]., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: REALISTIC F LAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Derrick is building a doomsday shelter to prepare for the apocalypse when he makes friends with Misty, the girl next door"--Provided by the publisher.
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2004, Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: SUPERNATURAL F KRA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the ghost of a little girl--which might not be imaginary after all.
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2008., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: [FIC] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
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2011., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Teen Fiction Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
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-- Worst years of my life.2012., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: PB F PAT Edition: First Little, Brown Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
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2010., Adolescent, Henry Holt Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist.".
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-- OCD, the dude, & mec2013., Adolescent, Dial Call No: JUV019000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Danielle Levine stands out even at her alternative high school--in appearance and attitude--but when her scathing and sometimes raunchy English essays land her in a social skills class, she meets Daniel, another social misfit who may break her resolve to keep everyone at arm's length.
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[2015]., Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice.
