Best Books for Young Adults
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| Boston Jane: an Adventure
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| The Edge On the Sword
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| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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| Touching Spirit Bear
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| Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ The stories of fifteen fugitive slaves who escaped to the North via the Underground Railroad and other routes. |
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| All That Remains
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| The Amber Spyglass
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| Bad Boy: a Memoir
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| Breaking Through
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| Sights
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| The Rag and Bone Shop
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| Feeling Sorry for Celia
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| Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
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| Shadow of the Hegemon
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| Witch Child
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| The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
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| Secret Sacrament
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| Being Dead
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| Whale Talk
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Multiethnic T. J. leads a high-school swim team of nonconformists on a quest for a varsity letter jacket. |
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| A Step from Heaven
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| Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century American Art
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| Fire Bringer
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ Rannoch, a young red deer, discovers he is the changeling destined to fulfill "the Prophecy," to defeat the evil Sgorr, and reunite the Great Herd. |
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| Crazy Loco
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| Carver: a Life in Poems
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| You Don't Know Me
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| Motherland
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| Breathing Underwater
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| The Other Side of Truth
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| We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History
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| The Color of Absence: Twelve Stories About Loss and Hope
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| Empress of the World
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| Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century
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| Brimstone Journals
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| Rooster
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| Damage
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| Born Blue
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| Failure Is Impossible: the History of American Women's Rights
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ A brief but lively account of the struggles for equality and opportunity faced and won by American women throughout our country's history. |
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| Eight Seconds
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ John's eighteenth summer is complicated by his struggle to understand his feelings toward Kit, a star bull rider that he metes at rodeo camp. |
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| The Lord of the Deep
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ Thirteen-year-old Mikey learns some hard truths about life and honor during three fateful days aboard his stepfather's deep-sea fishing boat off Hawaii. |
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| Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them
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| The Stones of Mourning Creek
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| Black Mirror
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| Zazoo
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| On the Fringe
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| Into the New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Profiles eight women who made fascinating contributions to the history of the American West. Includes photos, illustrations, and primary-source material. |
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| Of Sound Mind
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| Rainbow Boys
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| Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ A follow-up to You Hear Me, this collection of stories and poems by teen girls reveals the truth about boyfriends, body image and being female. |
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| Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
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| Razzle
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| Lirael
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| A Single Shard
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| Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate
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| Seek
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| Summers at Castle Auburn
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| Voices: Poetry and Art From Around the World
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| Freewill
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| Fighting Ruben Wolfe
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Two brothers from the wrong side of the tracks spar with life in defense of family and on the Australian underground boxing circuit. |
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| The Land
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| Fair Weather
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ Rosie's family is invited by Aunt Euterpe to attend the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and her unpredictable grandfather decides to come |
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| Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit
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| Troy
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| What My Mother Doesn't Know
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Writing in free verse, Sophie describes her first experiences with boyfriends, love and other hazards in her search for Mr. Right. |
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| Words with Wings: a Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
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| Cut
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Callie, 13 and confined to a treatment facility for self-mutilation, gradually begins to take him to understand some of the reasons behind her problems. |
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| Counting Coup: the True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
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| Every Time a Rainbow Dies
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| Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood
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| Bruce Lee: the Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon
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| Amandine
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Delia is the new girl at school mid-year in ninth grade and at first Amandine seems like the perfect best friend…until things go terribly wrong. |
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| Leslie's Journal
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| Yell-OH Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing-Up Asian American
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| Spellbound
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| Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ The Japanese-American experience at home and on the front lines is revealed in this thoughtful book about World War II. |
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| True Believer
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ In this poetic sequel to Make Lemonade, LaVaughn finds that her changing goals and relationships bring her both pain and joy. |
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| Protector of the Small: Squire
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| George Washington and the Founding of a Nation
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| The Grave
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ A 13-year-old Irish orphan's life is changed forever when he is drawn into the past through a construction site that reveals a mass grave. |
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| The Gospel According to Larry
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Things spiral out of control for Josh, a loner, who masquerades as "Larry" as he espouses anti-consumerism on his anonymous Web site. |
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| Shades of Simon Gray
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| Finding Fish
2002 - Selection(s) Normal false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Once an abused foster child and a homeless teen, Antwone relates his struggle to attain successful manhood and find his lost family. |
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| A Matter of Profit
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| The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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| Blizzard: the Storm that Changed America
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