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“Deep Winter: A Novel” Samuel W. Gailey
Rated 5 stars *****2014. Penguin Group. ebook. ARC. To be published February 20, 2014. When Danny was 5 years old, he fell through thin ice and was submerged for more than 10 minutes. His parents...
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“The Scar Boys” Len Vlahos
Rated 4 stars **** 2014. Egmont. ebook. ARC. Published January 21. Harbinger Robert Francis Jones was 8 years old when bullies tied him to a tree. The tree was struck by lightning and the resulting...
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“Dead Silence” Norah McClintock
Rated 4 stars **** Mike & Riel book #5. Published March 1, 2014. ARC Darby Creek Publishing. High school will never be the same. Those were Mike’s thoughts the day his best friend Sal was killed....
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“The Truth about Alice” Jennifer Mathieu
Rated 4 stars **** ebook. ARC. To be published June 3, 2014. Roaring Book Press. Alice’s junior year in high school went down the drain the day Brandon died. Handsome Brandon, the town’s hero...
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“Random” Tom Leveen
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. ebook. To be published August 12, 2014. Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster). Tori’s life as she knew it is officially over. None of her friends want anything to do with her,...
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“Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass” Meg Medina
Rated 5 stars ***** 2014. Candlewick Press. 260 pp. This book won the 2014 “Pura Belpre” Author award and, once you read this powerful story, you will see why it was a wonderful choice. Don’t be turned...
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“Brutal Youth” Anthony Breznican
Rated 5 stars ***** ebook. 2014. Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press). Peter Davidek was an 8th grader visiting St. Michael’s high school when the unthinkable happened. A bullied student went crazy,...
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“This Song Will Save Your Life” Leila Sales
Rated 5 stars ***** 2013. Farrar Straus Giroux. 214 pp. (Includes “Recommended Listening” song list). Sixteen-year-old Elise Dembowski hates herself, and her life. After being ostracized by every...
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“Eleanor & Park” Rainbow Rowell
Rated 5 stars ***** 2013. St. Martin’s Griffin. 328 pp. It is 1986 and, in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Eleanor and Park tell their stories of love, desperation, fear, heartache and hope....
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If I ever get out of here” Eric Gansworth
Rated 5 stars ***** 2013. Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic). 356 pp. (Includes “Playlist & Discography”.) It is 1975, and Lewis desperately wants to fit in with his 7th grade classmates. Tracked...
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“Can you see me now?” Estela Bernal
Rated 3 stars *** 2014. Piñata Books (Arte Público Press). 161 pp. Amanda’s life changed forever the day she turned thirteen. On that day, a drunk driver killed her father and her mother decided it was...
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“Since you’ve been gone” Mary Jennifer Payne
Rated 4 stars **** Ebook. ARC. Published February 17, 2015. Dundurn Group. Tenth grader Edie Fraser has always wanted a stable life. Ever since she was 10 years old, she and her mom have moved from...
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“All the Rage” Courtney Summers
Rated 5 stars ***** Ebook. ARC. St. Martin’s Griffin. Published April 14, 2015. No one believes Romy. How dare she accuse popular, well-liked, handsome Kellan of rape? Kellan’s father is the Sheriff...
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“House of Echoes” Brendan Duffy
Rated 5 stars ***** Ebook. ARC. Ballantine Books (Random House). Published April 14, 2015. Ben Tierney and his wife Caroline live with their baby boy and eight-year-old son Charlie in a Manhattan...
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“Luckiest girl alive” Jessica Knoll
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. EBook. Simon & Schuster. Published May 12, 2015. Ani FaNelli is a successful writer at the very prestigious The Women’s Magazine in New York City. She is engaged to be...
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“Finding Hope” Colleen Nelson
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Ebook. To be published April 12, 2016. Dundurn. Fifteen-year-old Hope can’t express herself except through poems she scrawls on her body, the wall, scraps of paper or any handy...
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“Best friends through eternity” Sylvia McNicoll
Rated 3 stars *** 2015. Tundra Books. Hardcover. 182 pp. Paige is fourteen, adopted by Canadian parents shortly after she was abandoned at an orphanage in China. As a result she feels as if something...
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“What you left behind” Samantha Hayes
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Ebook. DCI Lorraine Fisher #2. 2015. Crown (Random House.) Detective Inspector Lorraine Fisher planned to have a nice vacation with her sister Jo and nephew Freddie in her...
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“Sugar”Deirdre Riordan Hall
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Published June 1, 2015. Skyscape. As a little girl, Mercy’s mother caught her eating sugar out of a bag and nicknamed her “Sugar.” She and her brothers were encouraged to eat...
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“The boy who killed Grant Parker” Kat Spears
Rated 4 stars **** ARC. Published September 13, 2016. St. Martin’s Griffin. 305 pp. Luke Grayson hates the little town of Ashland, Tennessee where he had been sent to live by his mother after a series...
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