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Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Published 2009 by Viking Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780670011100
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Six years after Cassie and Lia resolved to become the skinniest girls in their school, Cassie dies. Unable to bear the sadness and guilt following Cassie's death, Lia spirals deeper into her own eating disorder. Elijah, the last person to see Cassie alive, helps Lia find the strength to face her own demons and enter recovery.... More...
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Dull Boy
by Sarah Cross
Published 2009 by Dutton Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780525421337
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What do you do if you can deadlift a car, and you spend your nights flying to get away from it all? If youare fifteen-year-old Avery Pirzwick, you keep that information to yourself. When youare a former jock turned freak, you canat afford to let the secret slip.... More...
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The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis
by Kim Ablon Whitney
Published 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780375852190
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Based on true events from 1939 that occurred aboard a ship carrying Jews and other refugees away from Nazi Germany, this historical novel imagines two travelers and the lives they may have lived until events, and immigration laws, conspired to change their fates.... More...
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The Chosen One
by Carol Lynch Williams
Published 2009 by St. Martin's Griffin
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312555115
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Williams' chilling novel of life in a polygamous sect is both harrowing in its unsparing realism and hopeful in its reaffirmation of the power that books and reading have to change and redeem lives at risk.--"Booklist."
Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way.... More...
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