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When Mike Parker's girlfriend shows up at school with a bruise on her face, she walks into the principal's office and said Mike hit her. The students have questions. Why did she go to the principal and not the police? Why did she stay so long if he was hurting her? Obviously, if it's true, Mike should be expelled. But is it true? Some girls want to rally for his expulsion-- some want to rally around Mike. Someone is lying. And the truth has to come...
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Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
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Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
45) All of me
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Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations.
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"After a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb Peach are ready for vacation. Lucy wants to read all of the books on the summer reading list. Freddy wants to work on his art projects (when he isn't stuck in summer school). Herb wants to swim every day. Then their dad makes a big announcement: one of the inventions their mom came up with before she passed away has sold, and now they're millionaires! But Dad has bigger plans than blowing the cash on fun...
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Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
49) I'll be there
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Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
50) Switch
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When time stopped on June 23, 2020, the world's youth were enlisted to spend part of their school days trying to come up with a solution. Sixteen-year-old Truda Becker has a theory that the time stoppage is a result of people not caring for one another, but she must work around her father's strange habit of obsessively covering up a light switch in their home, her mother's absence, and her sister's psychopathic tendencies, to get at the truth.
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With loving adoptive parents, Rev Fletcher has managed to keep the demons of his past at bay... until he gets a letter from his abusive father. Emma Blue spends her time perfecting the computer game she built from scratch, rather than facing her parents' crumbling marriage... and then an online troll's harassment escalates. When the two meet, they both long to lift the burden of their secrets and bond instantly over their shared turmoil. When their...
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After her father runs off with a dental hygienist, Raymie Clarke decides it is up to her to repair her family. She plans to win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition so her father will see her picture in the paper and come home. However, Raymie has competition in Beverly Tapinski and Louisiana Elefante. All of the girls want to win the pageant for different reasons, and none ever imagined they would become friends.
56) The undrowned
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"Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha . . . and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel . . . and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to...
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There are some things Finley Hart doesn't talk about--like her parents, who are having problems, and her "blue days," the days when it feels hard even to just keep her head up. Being sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, Finley's only retreat is Everwood, the magical forest kingdom that exists only in her notebook--or so she thought. Everwood turns out to be real, and it is growing behind her grandparents' home. With her cousins, Finley...
60) White fur flying
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A sad and silent nine-year-old boy finds his voice when he moves next to a family that rescues dogs.
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